Functional Amyloids: The Biomaterials of Tomorrow?

S Peña‐Díaz, WP Olsen, H Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Functional amyloid (FAs), particularly the bacterial proteins CsgA and FapC, have many
useful properties as biomaterials: high stability, efficient, and controllable formation of a …

Protein-based bioactive coatings: from nanoarchitectonics to applications

C Fu, Z Wang, X Zhou, B Hu, C Li, P Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based bioactive coatings have emerged as a versatile and promising strategy for
enhancing the performance and biocompatibility of diverse biomedical materials and …

[HTML][HTML] Local environment in biomolecular condensates modulates enzymatic activity across length scales

M Gil-Garcia, AI Benítez-Mateos, M Papp… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The mechanisms that underlie the regulation of enzymatic reactions by biomolecular
condensates and how they scale with compartment size remain poorly understood. Here we …

Rational Design of Bio‐Inspired Peptide Electronic Materials toward Bionanotechnology: Strategies and Applications

J Zhao, Q Liu, X Tong, Y Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biologically inspired peptide‐based materials, as novel charge transport materials, have
gained increasing interest in bioelectronics due to their remarkable electrical properties and …

Effects of amyloid-β-mimicking peptide hydrogel matrix on neuronal progenitor cell phenotype

TG Mathes, M Monirizad, M Ermis, NR de Barros… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Self-assembling peptide-based hydrogels have become a highly attractive scaffold for three-
dimensional (3D) in vitro disease modeling as they provide a way to create tunable matrices …

Resolving the Nanoscale Structure of β-Sheet Peptide Self-Assemblies Using Single-Molecule Orientation–Localization Microscopy

W Zhou, CL O'Neill, T Ding, O Zhang, JS Rudra… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Synthetic peptides that self-assemble into cross-β fibrils are versatile building blocks for
engineered biomaterials due to their modularity and biocompatibility, but their structural and …

[HTML][HTML] Production and characterization of amaranth amyloid fibrils from food protein waste

S Mykolenko, WL Soon, R Mezzenga - Food Hydrocolloids, 2024 - Elsevier
Plant proteins self-assembly into amyloid fibrils is a promising modification to be introduced
in emerging food and materials applications. Although the valorization of protein-rich side …

Investigating the synergistic effects of high-pressure homogenization and pH shifting on the formation of tryptophan-rich nanoparticles

H Dong, L Yang, Y Dadmohammadi, P Li, T Lin, Y He… - Food Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
A combined treatment of high-pressure homogenization (HPH) and pH-shifting on the
mixture of α-lactalbumin (α-LA) and tryptophan (Trp) was used to fabricate nanoparticles (α …

Protein‐Based Controllable Nanoarchitectonics for Desired Applications

L Li, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Z Wang, W Cui… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Controllable protein nanoarchitectonics refers to the process of manipulating and controlling
the assembly of proteins at the nanoscale to achieve domain‐limited and accurate spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells

ML Daly, K Nishi, SJ Klawa, KY Hinton, Y Gao… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
The bottom-up engineering of artificial cells requires a reconfigurable cytoskeleton that can
organize at distinct locations and dynamically modulate its structural and mechanical …