Antibiotic Spider Silk: Site-Specific Functionalization of Recombinant Spider Silk Using "Click" Chemistry

作者:Harvey David; Bardelang Philip; Goodacre Sara L; Cockayne Alan; Thomas Neil R*
来源:Advanced Materials, 2017, 29(10): UNSP 1604245.
DOI:10.1002/adma.201604245

摘要

In a new, versatile approach to functionalizing recombinant spider silk, L-azidohomoalanine is introduced residue-specifically in the minispidroin protein 4RepCT through expression in an E. coli methionine auxotroph. Both fluorophores and the antibiotic levofloxacin are attached to this bio-orthogonal amino acid using copper-catalyzed click chemistry, either before or after the silk fibers are self-assembled.

  • 出版日期2017-3-14