Bottom-Up Instructive Quality Control in the Biofabrication of Smart Protein Materials.

Rueda, Fabián; Céspedes, María Virtudes; Conchillo-Solé, Oscar; Sánchez-Chardi, Alejandro; Seras-Franzoso, Joaquin; Cubarsi, Rafael; Gallardo, Alberto; Pesarrodona, Mireia et al. · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The impact of cell factory quality control on material properties is a neglected but critical issue in the fabrication of protein biomaterials, which are unique in merging structure and function. The molecular chaperoning of protein conformational status is revealed here as a potent molecular instructor of the macroscopic properties of self-assembling, cell-targeted protein nanoparticles, including biodistribution upon in vivo administration.

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