Scolaro Luigi Monsù, Castriciano Maria Angela, Romeo Andrea, Micali Norberto, Angelini Nicola, Lo Passo Carla, Felici Franco
Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica, Chimica Analitica e Chimica Fisica, Università di Messina and C.I.R.C.M.S.B., Unità di Messina, Salita Sperone 31, 98166 Messina, Italy.
J Am Chem Soc. 2006 Jun 14;128(23):7446-7. doi: 10.1021/ja061726j.
Engineered viruses act as scaffolds to bind porphyrins on their surfaces, exploiting mainly electrostatic interactions. The close proximity between porphyrins and tryptophan residues, exposed on the solvent-accessible surface, leads to an efficient resonant energy transfer, which makes these systems suitable for developing noncovalent antenna systems.