Recent advances in the synthesis of functional materials by engineered and recombinant living cells

e-Biologics: Fabrication of Sustainable Electronics with “Green” Biological Materials

(2017) Derek R. Lovley   mBio

Extracellular Self-Assembly of Functional and Tunable Protein Conjugates from Bacillus subtilis

(2017) Charlie Gilbert et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Tyrosine Coupling Creates a Hyperbranched Multivalent Protein Polymer Using Horseradish Peroxidase via Bipolar Conjugation Points

(2016) Kosuke Minamihata et al.   BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY

Biosynthetic Polymers as Functional Materials

(2016) Andrea S. Carlini et al.   MACROMOLECULES

CRISPR: Implications for materials science

(2016) Philip Ball   MRS BULLETIN

Light-controlled modulation of gene expression by chemical optoepigenetic probes

(2016) Surya A Reis et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

A bacterial phytochrome-based optogenetic system controllable with near-infrared light

(2016) Andrii A Kaberniuk et al.   NATURE METHODS

Synthetic genetic polymers: advances and applications

(2016) Qian Ma et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Copolymers of polyhydroxyalkanoates and polyethylene glycols: recent advancements with biological and medical significance

(2016) Malte Winnacker et al.   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Synthetic Biological Protein Nanowires with High Conductivity

(2016) Yang Tan et al.   Small

Synthetic Biogenesis of Bacterial Amyloid Nanomaterials with Tunable Inorganic–Organic Interfaces and Electrical Conductivity

(2016) Urartu Ozgur Safak Seker et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Scalable Production of Genetically Engineered Nanofibrous Macroscopic Materials via Filtration

(2016) Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Scalable Production of Genetically Engineered Nanofibrous Macroscopic Materials via Filtration

(2016) Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne et al.   ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Novel fabrication of fluorescent silk utilized in biotechnological and medical applications

(2015) Dong Wook Kim et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Collagen-mimetic peptide-modifiable hydrogels for articular cartilage regeneration

(2015) Paresh A. Parmar et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Engineered catalytic biofilms: Site-specific enzyme immobilization ontoE. colicurli nanofibers

(2015) Zsofia Botyanszki et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Secrets of a covalent interaction for biomaterials and biotechnology: SpyTag and SpyCatcher

(2015) Samuel C Reddington et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Enhanced energy transport in genetically engineered excitonic networks

(2015) Heechul Park et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Engineering Living Functional Materials

(2015) Allen Y. Chen et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Materials Fabrication from Native and Recombinant Thermoplastic Squid Proteins

(2014) Abdon Pena-Francesch et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Bacteria-instructed synthesis of polymers for self-selective microbial binding and labelling

(2014) E. Peter Magennis et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Synthesis and patterning of tunable multiscale materials with engineered cells

(2014) Allen Y. Chen et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A brief history of synthetic biology

(2014) D. Ewen Cameron et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

High-Toughness Silk Produced by a Transgenic Silkworm Expressing Spider (Araneus ventricosus) Dragline Silk Protein

(2014) Yoshihiko Kuwana et al.   PLoS One

Synthesis of bioactive protein hydrogels by genetically encoded SpyTag-SpyCatcher chemistry

(2014) F. Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9

(2014) J. A. Doudna et al.   SCIENCE

Towards XNA nanotechnology: new materials from synthetic genetic polymers

(2014) Vitor B. Pinheiro et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Programmable biofilm-based materials from engineered curli nanofibres

(2014) Peter Q. Nguyen et al.   Nature Communications

Cell electrospinning: a novel tool for functionalising fibres, scaffolds and membranes with living cells and other advanced materials for regenerative biology and medicine

(2013) Suwan N. Jayasinghe   ANALYST

Artificial Genetic Sets Composed of Size-Expanded Base Pairs

(2013) Malte Winnacker et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nanobiotechnology: synthetic biology meets materials science

(2013) Michael C Jewett et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The enabled state of DNA nanotechnology

(2013) Veikko Linko et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

DNA nanotechnology with one-dimensional self-assembled nanostructures

(2013) Fuan Wang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Effects of non-linearity on cell–ECM interactions

(2013) Qi Wen et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Accelerating the design of biomimetic materials by integrating RNA-seq with proteomics and materials science

(2013) Paul A Guerette et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Creating biological nanomaterials using synthetic biology

(2013) MaryJoe K Rice et al.   SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cell adhesion and proliferation on RGD-modified recombinant spider silk proteins

(2012) Stefanie Wohlrab et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Curli Functional Amyloid Systems Are Phylogenetically Widespread and Display Large Diversity in Operon and Protein Structure

(2012) Morten S. Dueholm et al.   PLoS One

The Development and Application of Optogenetics

(2011) Lief Fenno et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

In Vivo Synthesis of Diverse Metal Nanoparticles by Recombinant Escherichia coli

(2010) Tae Jung Park et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Designed biomaterials to mimic the mechanical properties of muscles

(2010) Shanshan Lv et al.   NATURE

RNA sequencing: advances, challenges and opportunities

(2010) Fatih Ozsolak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Bacterial polymers: biosynthesis, modifications and applications

(2010) Bernd H. A. Rehm   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Gene regulation by voltage-dependent calcium channels

(2009) Maud Barbado et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

A Systematic Survey Identifies Prions and Illuminates Sequence Features of Prionogenic Proteins

(2009) Simon Alberti et al.   CELL

Hybrid Multicomponent Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering

(2008) Xinqiao Jia et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE