Bioselectivity of silk protein-based materials and their bio-inspired applications

• Hendrik Bargel,
• Vanessa T. Trossmann,
• Christoph Sommer and
• Thomas Scheibel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 902–921, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.81

• bioselectivity. Keywords: antifouling; bacteriostatic; biofouling; bioselective cell adhesion; spider silk protein; Review 1 Introduction 1.1 Bioadhesive protein surfaces Biological adhesion is important for all organisms such as plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi, covering a wide range of biological aspects

• sequence of the spider Euprosthenops australis as inspiration and developed the recombinant spider silk protein 4RepCT comprising four repetitions of a sequence with a polyalanine-rich and a glycine-rich block, as well as a non-repetitive C-terminal domain [141][142]. Another recombinant system is based on

• of studies using functionalized recombinant spider silk in tissue engineering confirmed the high impact and suitability of bioadhesive spider silk protein-based materials for applications in that field. 3.3 Antimicrobial silk-based surfaces As already pointed out in section 2.2, no uniform hypothesis