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Plant virus incorporated hydrogels as scaffolds for tissue engineering possess low immunogenicity in vivo.
Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A - 1 Mar 2015
Luckanagul Jittima Amie, Lee L Andrew, You Shaojin, Yang Xiaoming, Wang Qian
Abstract excerpt
Viruses are no longer recognized purely for being ubiquitous pathogens, but have served as building blocks for material chemistry and nanotechnology. Thousands of coat protein subunits of a viral particle can be modified chemically and/or genetically. We have previously shown that the three-dimensional porous hydrogels can easily be functionalized by Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), a rod-like plant virus, using its...
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