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SUBMITTER: Li D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6639685 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Dong D Zhu Ye Y Yang Tao T Yang Mingying M Mao Chuanbin C
iScience 20190703
Bacteria use flagella, the protein nanofibers on their surface, as a molecular machine to swim. Flagella are polymerized from monomers, flagellins, which can display a peptide by genetic means. However, flagella as genetically modifiable nanofibers have not been used in building bone extracellular matrix-like structures for inducing stem cell differentiation in non-osteogenic medium. Here we discovered that interactions between Ca<sup>2+</sup> ions and flagella (displaying a collagen-like peptid ...[more]