Biological materials and molecular biomimetics – filling up the empty soft materials space for tissue engineering applications

Nanoconfined β-Sheets Mechanically Reinforce the Supra-Biomolecular Network of Robust Squid Sucker Ring Teeth

(2014) Paul A. Guerette et al.   ACS Nano

Biological adhesion of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano relies on a duo-gland system and is mediated by a cell type-specific intermediate filament protein

(2014) Birgit Lengerer et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Tough Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Hydrogels with Hydrogen-Bonding Network Junctions

(2014) Mingyu Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Extracellular matrix stiffness and composition jointly regulate the induction of malignant phenotypes in mammary epithelium

(2014) Ovijit Chaudhuri et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Sea star tenacity mediated by a protein that fragments, then aggregates

(2014) E. Hennebert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growth Factors Engineered for Super-Affinity to the Extracellular Matrix Enhance Tissue Healing

(2014) M. M. Martino et al.   SCIENCE

Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

(2014) E. Ducrot et al.   SCIENCE

Integrative and comparative analysis of coiled-coil based marine snail egg cases – a model for biomimetic elastomers

(2014) Paul A. Guerette et al.   Biomaterials Science

Wear and abrasion resistance selection maps of biological materials

(2013) Shahrouz Amini et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Engineering materials from proteins

(2013) Bradley D. Olsen   AICHE JOURNAL

Functional Attachment of Soft Tissues to Bone: Development, Healing, and Tissue Engineering

(2013) Helen H. Lu et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Elastomeric recombinant protein-based biomaterials

(2013) Nasim Annabi et al.   BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

β-Sheet Nanocrystalline Domains Formed from Phosphorylated Serine-Rich Motifs in Caddisfly Larval Silk: A Solid State NMR and XRD Study

(2013) J. Bennett Addison et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Self-Tensioning Aquatic Caddisfly Silk: Ca2+-Dependent Structure, Strength, and Load Cycle Hysteresis

(2013) Nicholas N. Ashton et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Structural Proteins from Whelk Egg Capsule with Long Range Elasticity Associated with a Solid-State Phase Transition

(2013) S. Scott Wasko et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Designing degradable hydrogels for orthogonal control of cell microenvironments

(2013) Prathamesh M. Kharkar et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Pairwise interactions in collagen and the design of heterotrimeric helices

(2013) Abhishek A Jalan et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Bioinspired Water-Enhanced Mechanical Gradient Nanocomposite Films That Mimic the Architecture and Properties of the Squid Beak

(2013) Justin D. Fox et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2013) Paul A Guerette et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Degradation-mediated cellular traction directs stem cell fate in covalently crosslinked three-dimensional hydrogels

(2013) Sudhir Khetan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Physical hydrogels composed of polyampholytes demonstrate high toughness and viscoelasticity

(2013) Tao Lin Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Macroscale delivery systems for molecular and cellular payloads

(2013) Cathal J. Kearney et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Structural Biological Materials: Critical Mechanics-Materials Connections

(2013) M. A. Meyers et al.   SCIENCE

Multi-scale multi-mechanism design of tough hydrogels: building dissipation into stretchy networks

(2013) Xuanhe Zhao   Soft Matter

Genome sequencing and population genomics in non-model organisms

(2013) Hans Ellegren   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Variations in chondrogenesis of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in fibrin/alginate blended hydrogels

(2012) Kun Ma et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Silk Materials - A Road to Sustainable High Technology

(2012) Hu Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Catechol-Based Biomimetic Functional Materials

(2012) Josep Sedó et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Phase transition-induced elasticity of α-helical bioelastomeric fibres and networks

(2012) Ali Miserez et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Mechanical Transition from α-Helical Coiled Coils to β-Sheets in Fibrin(ogen)

(2012) Artem Zhmurov et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Pseudoelastic behaviour of a natural material is achieved via reversible changes in protein backbone conformation

(2012) M. J. Harrington et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Polymer Gradient Materials: Can Nature Teach Us New Tricks?

(2012) Kai U. Claussen et al.   MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

(2012) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   NATURE

Stabilization of vaccines and antibiotics in silk and eliminating the cold chain

(2012) Jeney Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs

(2012) Po-Yu Chen et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Unlike Bone, Cartilage Regeneration Remains Elusive

(2012) D. J. Huey et al.   SCIENCE

Modular Design in Natural and Biomimetic Soft Materials

(2011) Aaron M. Kushner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nanomechanics of the Cartilage Extracellular Matrix

(2011) Lin Han et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Mussel-Inspired Adhesives and Coatings

(2011) Bruce P. Lee et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

SCORER 2.0: an algorithm for distinguishing parallel dimeric and trimeric coiled-coil sequences

(2011) C. T. Armstrong et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Four-Stranded Coiled-Coil Elastic Protein in the Byssus of the Giant Clam, Tridacna maxima

(2011) Ali Miserez et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Coiled-coil intermediate filament stutter instability and molecular unfolding

(2011) Melis Arslan et al.   COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Artful interfaces within biological materials

(2011) John W.C. Dunlop et al.   Materials Today

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Mussel protein adhesion depends on interprotein thiol-mediated redox modulation

(2011) Jing Yu et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Multi-hierarchical self-assembly of a collagen mimetic peptide from triple helix to nanofibre and hydrogel

(2011) Lesley E. R. O'Leary et al.   Nature Chemistry

Toward an Understanding of the Molecular Mechanisms of Barnacle Larval Settlement: A Comparative Transcriptomic Approach

(2011) Zhang-Fan Chen et al.   PLoS One

Natural and genetically engineered proteins for tissue engineering

(2011) Sílvia Gomes et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Evidence that αC Region Is Origin of Low Modulus, High Extensibility, and Strain Stiffening in Fibrin Fibers

(2010) John R. Houser et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Coiled coils: attractive protein folding motifs for the fabrication of self-assembled, responsive and bioactive materials

(2010) Bojana Apostolovic et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The Evolution and Structure Prediction of Coiled Coils across All Genomes

(2010) Owen J.L. Rackham et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Designed biomaterials to mimic the mechanical properties of muscles

(2010) Shanshan Lv et al.   NATURE

Harnessing traction-mediated manipulation of the cell/matrix interface to control stem-cell fate

(2010) Nathaniel Huebsch et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

RNA sequencing: advances, challenges and opportunities

(2010) Fatih Ozsolak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of theα-Helix toβ-Sheet Transition in Coiled Protein Filaments: Evidence for a Critical Filament Length Scale

(2010) Zhao Qin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Elastomeric polypeptide-based biomaterials

(2010) Linqing Li et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Native-sized recombinant spider silk protein produced in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli results in a strong fiber

(2010) X.-X. Xia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

(2010) F. G. Omenetto et al.   SCIENCE

Microstructural and Biochemical Characterization of the Nanoporous Sucker Rings fromDosidicus gigas

(2009) Ali Miserez et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Insect cuticular sclerotization: A review

(2009) Svend Olav Andersen   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Mechanics and mechanobiology of mesenchymal stem cell-based engineered cartilage

(2009) Alice H. Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Non-entropic and reversible long-range deformation of an encapsulating bioelastomer

(2009) Ali Miserez et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Infection-mimicking materials to program dendritic cells in situ

(2009) Omar A. Ali et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Sequencing technologies — the next generation

(2009) Michael L. Metzker   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Multiscale Mechanics of Fibrin Polymer: Gel Stretching with Protein Unfolding and Loss of Water

(2009) A. E. X. Brown et al.   SCIENCE

RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics

(2008) Zhong Wang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Transition from Stiff to Compliant Materials in Squid Beaks

(2008) A. Miserez et al.   SCIENCE