Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Fabrication of fibrillosomes from droplets stabilized by protein nanofibrils at all-aqueous interfaces

  • Yang Song,
  • Ulyana Shimanovich,
  • Thomas C. T. Michaels,
  • Qingming Ma,
  • Jingmei Li,
  • Tuomas P. J. Knowles,
  • Ho Cheung Shum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12934
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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All-aqueous emulsions are useful for delivering and processing biomolecules, but their stability is constrained by low interfacial adsorption energy. Song et al. solve this problem using protein nanofibrils that form a crosslinked network, whose stability is superior to conventional colloidal capsules.