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Programming cellular condensates for living materials using an intrinsically disordered protein display platform

Chang, R.; Tu, H.; Joshi, N. S.

2025-03-03 synthetic biology
10.1101/2025.03.02.640994 bioRxiv
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Self-organization of multicellular systems is vital for building structure in living system but remains underexplored in engineered living materials. We developed iDP2, a platform enabling high-density display of intrinsically disordered proteins on the surface of E. coli using CsgF as a surface-bound anchor protein to which other protein domains can be fused. Display depends on a lack of intrinsic structure and enable multivalent weak interactions that drive environmental responsiveness and sequence-programmable self-segregation. iDP2 allow the programming of material properties like viscoelasticity, stability, offering a method to rationally control cell-cell interactions. This approach could be applied to engineer self-organizing tissues or materials with customized properties.

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