USE OF SURFACE DISPLAY PROTEINS TO DISPLAY INORGANIC CATALYSTS ON THE SURFACE OF A YEAST, BACTERIUM OR VIRION

摘要

Methods and compositions for providing inorganic catalysts displayed on the surface of biological particles such as a cell or virion are described. In an exemplary embodiment the biological particle is a yeast cell including one or more receptor proteins uniformly displayed on the surface of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Each receptor protein is anchored to a ligand that is selective for that protein, and each ligand is, in turn, bound to a catalyst. Other contemplated embodiments include where the biological particles are other yeasts, bacterial cells or virions where a protein may be displayed on the surface and linked to a ligand that binds the inorganic catalyst.