Issue 41, 2008
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Chemical Communications

Oriented cell growth on self-assembled bacteriophage M13 thin films†

Jianhua Rong,ab   L. Andrew Lee,b   Kai Li,b   Brandon Harp,b   Charlene M. Mello,c   Zhongwei Niu*b  and  Qian Wang*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, P. R. China

b Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Nanocenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
E-mail: niu.z@mail.chem.sc.edu, wang@mail.chem.sc.edu

c Bioscience and Technology Team, US Army Natick Soldier Research Development & Engineering Center, Natick, USA

Abstract

Fibrillar M13 bacteriophages were used as basic building blocks to generate thin films with aligned nanogrooves, which, upon chemical grafting with RGD peptides, guide cell alignment and orient the cell outgrowth along defined directions.

Graphical abstract: Oriented cell growth on self-assembled bacteriophage M13 thin films

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B811039E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Jun 2008
Accepted
28 Aug 2008
First published
11 Sep 2008

Chem. Commun., 2008, 5185-5187

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Oriented cell growth on self-assembled bacteriophage M13 thin films

J. Rong, L. A. Lee, K. Li, B. Harp, C. M. Mello, Z. Niu and Q. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2008, 5185 DOI: 10.1039/B811039E

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