Abstract:
:Bacterial biofilms can be programmed to produce living materials with self-healing and evolvable functionalities. However, the wider use of artificial biofilms has been hindered by limitations on processability and functional protein secretion capacity. We describe a highly flexible and tunable living functional materials platform based on the TasA amyloid machinery of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. We demonstrate that genetically programmable TasA fusion proteins harboring diverse functional proteins or domains can be secreted and can assemble into diverse extracellular nano-architectures with tunable physicochemical properties. Our engineered biofilms have the viscoelastic behaviors of hydrogels and can be precisely fabricated into microstructures having a diversity of three-dimensional (3D) shapes using 3D printing and microencapsulation techniques. Notably, these long-lasting and environmentally responsive fabricated living materials remain alive, self-regenerative, and functional. This new tunable platform offers previously unattainable properties for a variety of living functional materials having potential applications in biomaterials, biotechnology, and biomedicine.
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Nat Chem Bioljournal_title
Nature chemical biologyauthors
Huang J,Liu S,Zhang C,Wang X,Pu J,Ba F,Xue S,Ye H,Zhao T,Li K,Wang Y,Zhang J,Wang L,Fan C,Lu TK,Zhong Cdoi
10.1038/s41589-018-0169-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-01-01 00:00:00pages
34-41issue
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1552-4450issn
1552-4469pii
10.1038/s41589-018-0169-2journal_volume
15pub_type
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