@misc{10481/43528,
year = {2016},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/43528},
abstract = {Protein crystallization in hydrogels has been explored with the main purpose of facilitating the growth of high quality crystals while increasing their size to enhance their manipulation. New avenues are currently being built for the use of protein crystals as source materials to create sensors and drug delivery vehicles, to name just a few. In this sense, short-peptide supramolecular hydrogels may play a crucial role in integrating protein crystals within a wider range of applications. In this article, we show that protein crystallization in short-peptide supramolecular hydrogels is feasible and independent of the type of peptide that forms the hydrogel and/or the protein, although the output is not always the same. As a general trend, it is confirmed that hydrogel fibers are always incorporated within crystals so that novel composite materials for biotechnological applications with enhanced properties are produced.},
organization = {This research was funded by the MICINN (Spain) projects
BIO2010-6800 (JAG), CTQ2012-34778 (JJDM), and “Factoría
Española de Cristalización” Consolider-Ingenio 2010 (JAG &
MCM), and by Junta de Andalucía (Spain) project P12-FQM-
2721 (LAC). EDRF funds JAG, LAC & JMC. JJDM thanks
MICINN for a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship and MCM thanks
CSIC for her JAE Fellowship},
publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
keywords = {Crystallization},
keywords = {Colloids},
keywords = {Protein crystals},
keywords = {Biotechnology},
keywords = {Drugs},
keywords = {Peptides},
keywords = {Supramomolecular chemistry},
keywords = {Composite materials},
title = {Protein crystallization in short-peptide supramolecular hydrogels: A versatile strategy towards biotechnological composite materials},
doi = {10.1039/C5CE00850F},
author = {Conejero-Muriel, Mayte and Contreras-Montoya, Rafael and Álvarez Cienfuegos Rodríguez, Luis and Gavira Gallardo, José Antonio},
}