Ferritin for tumors

Magnetoferritin nanoparticles for targeting and visualizing tumour tissues.
Kelong Fan, Changqian Cao, Yongxin Pan, Di Lu, Dongling Yang, Jing Feng, Lina Song, Minmin Liang & Xiyun Yan
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 459 (2012)

Paraffin-embedded clinical tumour tissues, and their corresponding normal and lesion tissues, were stained by FITC-conjugated HFn protein shells and M-HFn nanoparticles. Tumour tissues showed strong positive staining for M-HFn nanoparti…

Ferritin: A review

Ferritin: A Versatile Building Block for Bionanotechnology.
Günther Jutz, Patrick van Rijn, Barbara Santos Miranda, and Alexander Böker
Chemical Reviews 25, 1653 (2015)

Self assembly of magnetoferritin NPs

Hierarchical Self-Assembly and Optical Disassembly for Controlled Switching of Magnetoferritin Nanoparticle Magnetism.
Mauri A. Kostiainen,Pierpaolo Ceci,Manuela Fornara, Panu Hiekkataipale, Oksana Kasyutich, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Ryan D. Desautels, and Johan van Lierop
ACS Nano 5, 6394 (2011)

Protein cages such as ferritin and viral capsids are interesting building blocks for nanotechnology due to their monodisperse structure and ability to encapsulate various functional moieties. Here we show that recombinant ferritin protein cages encapsulating Fe₃O₄–γ-Fe₂O₃ iron oxide (magnetoferritin) nanoparticles and photodegradable Newkome-type dendrons self-assemble into micrometer-sized complexes with a face-centered-cubic (fcc) superstructure and a lattice constant of 13.1 nm.

Self-assembly of ferritin NPS

Hierarchical Self-Assembly and Optical Disassembly for Controlled Switching of Magnetoferritin Nanoparticle Magnetism.
Mauri A. Kostiainen, Pierpaolo Ceci, Manuela Fornara, Panu Hiekkataipale, Oksana Kasyutich, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Ryan D. Desautels, and Johan van Lierop.
ACS Nano 5, 6394 (2011)

Strategy for the assembly and optically triggered disassembly of RMP dendron complexes and a schematic
representation of the surface/core-spin alignment in the presence of a magnetic field.