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Optoregulated Drug Release from an Engineered Living Hydrogel

14 September 2018, Version 1
Working Paper
This content is a preprint and has not undergone peer review at the time of posting.

Abstract

A living hydrogel has been developed with metabolically and optogenetically engineered E. coli encapsulated within an agarose-based hydrogel matrix to produce and release deoxyviolacein in response to blue light irradiation. Localized, tunable and prolonged drug release have been demonstrated.

Keywords

Hydrogel
E. coli
Deoxyviolacein
Optogenetics
Metabolic Engineering
Controlled Release

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv.7087010.v1
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv.7087010.v1 [opens in a new tab]

Funding

DFG SFB1027

Author’s competing interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interests

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