title: Directed self-assembly of polypeptide-engineered physical microgels for building porous cell-laden hydrogels.
abstract: A novel approach to build porous cell-laden hydrogels through the self-assembly of coiled-coil polypeptides on the surface of physical microgels was developed. Both the extracellular microenvironments of pores and physical microgels within assembled constructs could be tailored simultaneously by tuning the polypeptide and morphological features of microgels.
authors.affiliation: Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics - Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, P. R. China. zydi@mail.hust.edu.cn lbyang@mail.hust.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ming-Hao
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ji-Tao
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Dong-Hui
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Ming-Shuo
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Yuan-Di
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D020100:Hydrogels; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D020100:Hydrogels; D010455:Peptides