Optogenetic approaches for the spatiotemporal control of signal transduction pathways

MM Kramer, L Lataster, W Weber… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biological signals are sensed by their respective receptors and are transduced and
processed by a sophisticated intracellular signaling network leading to a signal-specific …

Light-Responsive Dynamic Protein Hydrogels Based on LOVTRAP

T Duan, Q Bian, H Li - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein-based hydrogels can mimic many aspects of native extracellular matrices (ECMs)
and are promising biomedical materials that find various applications in cell proliferation …

Engineer RNA‐Protein Nanowires as Light‐Responsive Biomaterials

T Younas, C Liu, WB Struwe, P Kukura, L He - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
RNA molecules have emerged as increasingly attractive biomaterials with important
applications such as RNA interference (RNAi) for cancer treatment and mRNA vaccines …

Engineering dynamic protein-based hydrogels

T Duan - 2022 - open.library.ubc.ca
Hydrogels are water-containing soft materials made of cross-linked polymer networks.
Hydrogels can emulate many features of native tissues and organisms, and have therefore …