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In article number 1500295, C. A. Kerfeld and co-workers report on self-assembled protein nanotubes composed of a hexameric bacterial microcompartment (BMC) shell protein, which can be produced in and purified from Escherichia coli. Disassembly and re-assembly of the nanotubes can also be achieved in vitro. BMC-based nanotubes offer a new biomaterial and spatial architecture that may be genetically or chemically modified and used as a molecular scaffold in vivo or in vitro.

Gold nanoechinus can act as dual modal nanomaterial-mediated photodynamic therapy and photothermal therapy reagents for complete destruction of solid tumors upon NIR light irradiation, as discussed by K. C. Hwang and co-workers on page 6689.