Small bioactive peptides for biomaterials design and therapeutics

IW Hamley - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review is aimed to provide a concise yet extensive survey of key short bioactive peptide
sequences for a range of applications ranging from biomaterials development to peptides …

Tissue engineering for clean meat production

T Ben-Arye, S Levenberg - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Increasing public awareness of foodborne illnesses, factory farming, and the ecological
footprint of the meat industry, has generated the need for animal-free meat alternatives. In …

Intermolecular channels direct crystal orientation in mineralized collagen

YF Xu, F Nudelman, ED Eren, MJM Wirix… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The mineralized collagen fibril is the basic building block of bone, and is commonly pictured
as a parallel array of ultrathin carbonated hydroxyapatite (HAp) platelets distributed …

The collagen family

S Ricard-Blum - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Collagens are the most abundant proteins in mammals. The collagen family comprises 28
members that contain at least one triple-helical domain. Collagens are deposited in the …

Osteogenesis imperfecta: mechanisms and signaling pathways connecting classical and rare OI types

M Jovanovic, G Guterman-Ram, JC Marini - Endocrine reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous skeletal
dysplasia characterized by bone fragility, growth deficiency, and skeletal deformity …

Synthetic scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering: cellular responses to fiber parameters

TL Jenkins, D Little - NPJ Regenerative medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Tissue engineering often uses synthetic scaffolds to direct cell responses during engineered
tissue development. Since cells reside within specific niches of the extracellular matrix, it is …

Collagen structure and stability

MD Shoulders, RT Raines - Annual review of biochemistry, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Collagen is the most abundant protein in animals. This fibrous, structural protein comprises
a right-handed bundle of three parallel, left-handed polyproline II-type helices. Much …

Integrins

M Barczyk, S Carracedo, D Gullberg - Cell and tissue research, 2010 - Springer
Integrins are cell adhesion receptors that are evolutionary old and that play important roles
during developmental and pathological processes. The integrin family is composed of 24 αβ …

New perspectives on osteogenesis imperfecta

A Forlino, WA Cabral, AM Barnes… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
A new paradigm has emerged for osteogenesis imperfecta as a collagen-related disorder.
The more prevalent autosomal dominant forms of osteogenesis imperfecta are caused by …

Collagen structure: new tricks from a very old dog

J Bella - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
The main features of the triple helical structure of collagen were deduced in the mid-1950s
from fibre X-ray diffraction of tendons. Yet, the resulting models only could offer an average …