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Microcontact Printing of Proteins for Cell Biology
Published on: December 5, 2008
[Preparation methods of nanocavity biomaterials with recognition specificity via template imprinting of proteins]
Shu-lai Lu1, Guo-xiang Cheng, Zhi-jiang Cai
1School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Abstract:
Nanocavity biomaterials with recognition specificity imprinted by using proteins as templates may successful serve as substitutes for antibodies, enzymes, and other native biological structures as well as cell bracket materials. It has numerous applications in biotechnology, medicine and so on. In this paper, the principle of template imprinting is introduced briefly, the specialty of template imprinting of proteins is analyzed, and the methods of template imprinting of proteins including protein entrapment, microbead surface imprinting, flat surface imprinting as well as the epitope are reviewed in details.

