Controlling topological entanglement in engineered protein hydrogels with a variety of thiol coupling chemistries

Topological entanglements between polymer chains are achieved in associating protein hydrogels through the synthesis of high molecular weight proteins via chain extension using a variety of thiol coupling chemistries, including disulfide formation, thiol-maleimide, thiol-bromomaleimide and thiol-ene...

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Main Authors: Tang, Shengchang, Olsen, Bradley D
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
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Language:en_US
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109749
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description Topological entanglements between polymer chains are achieved in associating protein hydrogels through the synthesis of high molecular weight proteins via chain extension using a variety of thiol coupling chemistries, including disulfide formation, thiol-maleimide, thiol-bromomaleimide and thiol-ene. Coupling of cysteines via disulfide formation results in the most pronounced entanglement effect in hydrogels, while other chemistries provide versatile means of changing the extent of entanglement, achieving faster chain extension, and providing a facile method of controlling the network hierarchy and incorporating stimuli responsivities. The addition of trifunctional coupling agents causes incomplete crosslinking and introduces branching architecture to the protein molecules. The high-frequency plateau modulus and the entanglement plateau modulus can be tuned by changing the ratio of difunctional chain extender to the trifunctional branching unit. Therefore, these chain extension reactions show promise in delicately controlling the relaxation and mechanical properties of engineered protein hydrogels in ways that complement their design through genetic engineering.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1097492022-10-01T16:35:29Z Controlling topological entanglement in engineered protein hydrogels with a variety of thiol coupling chemistries Tang, Shengchang Olsen, Bradley D Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering Tang, Shengchang Olsen, Bradley D Topological entanglements between polymer chains are achieved in associating protein hydrogels through the synthesis of high molecular weight proteins via chain extension using a variety of thiol coupling chemistries, including disulfide formation, thiol-maleimide, thiol-bromomaleimide and thiol-ene. Coupling of cysteines via disulfide formation results in the most pronounced entanglement effect in hydrogels, while other chemistries provide versatile means of changing the extent of entanglement, achieving faster chain extension, and providing a facile method of controlling the network hierarchy and incorporating stimuli responsivities. The addition of trifunctional coupling agents causes incomplete crosslinking and introduces branching architecture to the protein molecules. The high-frequency plateau modulus and the entanglement plateau modulus can be tuned by changing the ratio of difunctional chain extender to the trifunctional branching unit. Therefore, these chain extension reactions show promise in delicately controlling the relaxation and mechanical properties of engineered protein hydrogels in ways that complement their design through genetic engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (W911NF-07-D-0004) 2017-06-08T18:00:41Z 2017-06-08T18:00:41Z 2014-05 2014-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2296-2646 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109749 Tang, Shengchang and Olsen, Bradley D. “Controlling Topological Entanglement in Engineered Protein Hydrogels with a Variety of Thiol Coupling Chemistries.” Frontiers in Chemistry 2, no. 23 (May 2014): 1-11 © 2014 Tang and Olsen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-0965 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7272-7140 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2014.00023 Frontiers in Chemistry Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Frontiers Media S.A. Frontiers in Chemistry
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title_fullStr Controlling topological entanglement in engineered protein hydrogels with a variety of thiol coupling chemistries
title_full_unstemmed Controlling topological entanglement in engineered protein hydrogels with a variety of thiol coupling chemistries
title_short Controlling topological entanglement in engineered protein hydrogels with a variety of thiol coupling chemistries
title_sort controlling topological entanglement in engineered protein hydrogels with a variety of thiol coupling chemistries
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