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An B, Wang Y, Huang Y, Wang X, Liu Y, Xun D, Church GM, Dai Z, Yi X, Tang TC, Zhong C. Engineered Living Materials For Sustainability. Chem Rev 2023; 123:2349-2419. [PMID: 36512650 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter or cell communities embedded in self-regenerating matrices of their own or artificial scaffolds. Like natural materials such as bone, wood, and skin, ELMs, which possess the functional capabilities of living organisms, can grow, self-organize, and self-repair when needed. They also spontaneously perform programmed biological functions upon sensing external cues. Currently, ELMs show promise for green energy production, bioremediation, disease treatment, and fabricating advanced smart materials. This review first introduces the dynamic features of natural living systems and their potential for developing novel materials. We then summarize the recent research progress on living materials and emerging design strategies from both synthetic biology and materials science perspectives. Finally, we discuss the positive impacts of living materials on promoting sustainability and key future research directions.
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- Bolin An
- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston 02115, Massachusetts United States.,Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, Massachusetts United States
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston 02115, Massachusetts United States.,Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, Massachusetts United States
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- Center for Materials Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Xun D, Jiang X, Kong L, Li Z, Zhong C. [Application of adhesive materials in biomedicine: progress and prospects]. Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao 2019; 35:2386-2400. [PMID: 31880143 DOI: 10.13345/j.cjb.190366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
As an important auxiliary material, adhesive materials have many important applications in various fields including but not limited to industrial packaging, marine engineering, and biomedicine. Naturally occurring adhesives such as mussel foot proteins are usually biocompatible and biodegradable, but their limited sources and poor mechanical properties in physiological conditions have limited their widespread uses in biomedical field. Inspired by the underwater adhesion phenomenon of natural organisms, a series of biomimetic adhesive materials have been developed through chemical or bioengineering approaches. Notably, some of those synthetic adhesives have exhibited great promise for medical applications in terms of their biocompatibility, biodegradability, strong tissue adhesion and many other attractive functional properties. As natural adhesive materials possess distinctive "living" attributes such as environmental responsiveness, self-regeneration and autonomous repairs, the development of various biologically inspired and biomimetic adhesive materials using natural adhesives as blueprints will thus be of keen and continuous interest in the future. The emerging field of synthetic biology will likely provide new opportunities to design living glues that recapitulate the dynamic features of those naturally occurring adhesives.
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- Dongmin Xun
- Materials and Physical Biology Division, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China.,School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Materials and Physical Biology Division, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Materials and Physical Biology Division, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China.,School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Materials and Physical Biology Division, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China.,School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Materials and Physical Biology Division, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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Cui M, Qi Q, Gurry T, Zhao T, An B, Pu J, Gui X, Cheng AA, Zhang S, Xun D, Becce M, Briatico-Vangosa F, Liu C, Lu TK, Zhong C. Modular genetic design of multi-domain functional amyloids: insights into self-assembly and functional properties. Chem Sci 2019; 10:4004-4014. [PMID: 31015941 PMCID: PMC6461117 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc00208a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Engineering functional amyloids through a modular genetic strategy represents new opportunities for creating multifunctional molecular materials with tailored structures and performance. Despite important advances, how fusion modules affect the self-assembly and functional properties of amyloids remains elusive. Here, using Escherichia coli curli as a model system, we systematically studied the effect of flanking domains on the structures, assembly kinetics and functions of amyloids. The designed amyloids were composed of E. coli biofilm protein CsgA (as amyloidogenic cores) and one or two flanking domains, consisting of chitin-binding domains (CBDs) from Bacillus circulans chitinase, and/or mussel foot proteins (Mfps). Incorporation of fusion domains did not disrupt the typical β-sheet structures, but indeed affected assembly rate, morphology, and stiffness of resultant fibrils. Consequently, the CsgA-fusion fibrils, particularly those containing three domains, were much shorter than the CsgA-only fibrils. Furthermore, the stiffness of the resultant fibrils was heavily affected by the structural feature of fusion domains, with β-sheet-containing domains tending to increase the Young's modulus while random coil domains decreasing the Young's modulus. In addition, fibrils containing CBD domains showed higher chitin-binding activity compared to their CBD-free counterparts. The CBD-CsgA-Mfp3 construct exhibited significantly lower binding activity than Mfp5-CsgA-CBD due to inappropriate folding of the CBD domain in the former construct, in agreement with results based upon molecular dynamics modeling. Our study provides new insights into the assembly and functional properties of designer amyloid proteins with increasing complex domain structures and lays the foundation for the future design of functional amyloid-based structures and molecular materials.
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- Mengkui Cui
- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
- Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200032 , China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
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- Department of Biological Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139-4307 , USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
- Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200032 , China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
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- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
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- Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200032 , China
- Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry , Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200032 , China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Department of Biological Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139-4307 , USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
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- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Department of Biological Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139-4307 , USA
- Dipartimento di Chimica Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica G. Natta , Politecnico di Milano , Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 , 20133 Milano , Italy
- Department of Materials , Imperial College London , London SW7 2AZ , UK
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica G. Natta , Politecnico di Milano , Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 , 20133 Milano , Italy
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry , Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200032 , China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Department of Biological Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139-4307 , USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 200120 , China .
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