Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Decorating bacteria with self-assembled synthetic receptors

  • Naama Lahav-Mankovski,
  • Pragati Kishore Prasad,
  • Noa Oppenheimer-Low,
  • Gal Raviv,
  • Tali Dadosh,
  • Tamar Unger,
  • Tomer Meir Salame,
  • Leila Motiei,
  • David Margulies

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14336-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cell surface proteins mediate the interactions between cells and their extracellular environment. Here the authors design synthetic biomemetic receptor-like sensors that facilitate programmable interactions between bacteria and their target.