Journal article
Self-assembling nanofibrous bacteriophage microgels as sprayable antimicrobials targeting multidrug-resistant bacteria
Abstract
Nanofilamentous bacteriophages (bacterial viruses) are biofunctional, self-propagating, and monodisperse natural building blocks for virus-built materials. Minifying phage-built materials to microscale offers the promise of expanding the range function for these biomaterials to sprays and colloidal bioassays/biosensors. Here, we crosslink half a million self-organized phages as the sole structural component to construct each soft microgel. …
Authors
Tian L; He L; Jackson K; Saif A; Khan S; Wan Z; Didar TF; Hosseinidoust Z
Journal
Nature Communications, Vol. 13, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-34803-7
ISSN
2041-1723