title: Emerging applications of multifunctional elastin-like recombinamers.
abstract: Elastin-like recombinamers have grown in popularity in the field of protein-inspired biomimetic materials and have found widespread use in biomedical applications. Modern genetic-engineering techniques have allowed the design of multifunctional materials with an extraordinary control over their architecture and physicochemical properties, such as stimuli-responsiveness, monodispersity, biocompatibility or self-assembly, amongst others. Indeed, these materials are playing an increasingly important role in a diverse range of applications, such as drug delivery, tissue engineering and 'smart' systems. Herein, we review some of the most interesting examples of recent advances and progressive applications of elastin-like recombinamers in biomaterial and nano-engineering sciences in recent years.
authors.affiliation: Bioforge Group, University of Valladolid, CIBER-BBN, Edificio I+D, Paseo de Belén 11, 47011, Valladolid, Spain. cabello@bioforge.uva.es
authors.forename: J Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Cabello
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martín
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Girotti
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: García-Arévalo
authors.forename: F Javier
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Arias
authors.forename: Matilde
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alonso
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D040761:Biomimetic Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000379:methods; D004549:Elastin / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D004549:Elastin