{"id":188123,"date":"2024-04-25T20:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/designer-peptide-dna-cytoskeletons-regulate-the-function-of-synthetic-cells"},"modified":"2024-04-25T20:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:22:28","slug":"designer-peptide-dna-cytoskeletons-regulate-the-function-of-synthetic-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/designer-peptide-dna-cytoskeletons-regulate-the-function-of-synthetic-cells","title":{"rendered":"Designer peptide\u2013DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designer-peptide-dna-cytoskeletons-regulate-the-function-of-synthetic-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have successfully engineered functional artificial cells in the lab that behave like living cells.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Advances in the development of cytoskeletal-like materials with modular structures and mechanics are pivotal for the engineering of synthetic cells. Now actin-mimetic supramolecular peptide networks have been designed using programmable peptide\u2013DNA crosslinkers, giving rise to tunable tactoid-shaped bundles and mechanical properties that control spatial localization, the diffusion of payloads and shape changes within artificial cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have successfully engineered functional artificial cells in the lab that behave like living cells. Advances in the development of cytoskeletal-like materials with modular structures and mechanics are pivotal for the engineering of synthetic cells. Now actin-mimetic supramolecular peptide networks have been designed using programmable peptide\u2013DNA crosslinkers, giving rise to tunable tactoid-shaped bundles and mechanical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}