Programmable biofilm-based materials from engineered curli nanofibres

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nguyen, Peter Q ^a,b   Botyanszki, Zsofia ^b,c   Tay, Pei Kun R ^a,b   Joshi, Neel S ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; CSGA AMYLOID PROTEIN; CURLI NANOFIBER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NANOFIBER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; STAINLESS STEEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMYLOID; BIOMATERIAL; CSGA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; METAL NANOPARTICLE; PEPTIDE; SILVER;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; IMMOBILIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIREFRINGENCE; CELL SURFACE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NANOENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WILD TYPE; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMYLOID; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOFILMS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; NANOFIBERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SILVER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAINLESS STEEL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923353747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5945     Document Type: Article

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