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SUBMITTER: Chen AY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4063449 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Allen Y AY Deng Zhengtao Z Billings Amanda N AN Seker Urartu O S UO Lu Michelle Y MY Citorik Robert J RJ Zakeri Bijan B Lu Timothy K TK
Nature materials 20140323 5
Many natural biological systems--such as biofilms, shells and skeletal tissues--are able to assemble multifunctional and environmentally responsive multiscale assemblies of living and non-living components. Here, by using inducible genetic circuits and cellular communication circuits to regulate Escherichia coli curli amyloid production, we show that E. coli cells can organize self-assembling amyloid fibrils across multiple length scales, producing amyloid-based materials that are either externa ...[more]