Issue 4, 2020

Virus-derived materials: bury the hatchet with old foes

Abstract

Although enormous attempts are being made to develop synthetic materials for biomedical applications, more and more attention has been paid to bioderived materials due to their natural properties, including mammalian cells, bacteria, and viruses. Attributed to their symmetrical, monodisperse, and polyvalent architectures, viruses present remarkable flexibility in functionalization for biomedical applications. In this review, modification strategies including bioconjugation chemistry, encapsulation, mineralization and genetic engineering, and several related methods for construction of virus-derived materials are introduced. Through rational design, virus-derived materials show great potential in cargo delivery, imaging and therapy. Particularly, virus-derived materials can serve as versatile platforms for immune modulation via various pathways. However, safety concerns of viruses and their immunogenicity are major obstacles for virus-derived materials to be exploited in critical clinical applications, which need to be addressed urgently.

Graphical abstract: Virus-derived materials: bury the hatchet with old foes

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
29 Aug 2019
Accepted
23 Oct 2019
First published
24 Oct 2019

Biomater. Sci., 2020,8, 1058-1072

Virus-derived materials: bury the hatchet with old foes

J. Wu, H. Wu, S. Nakagawa and J. Gao, Biomater. Sci., 2020, 8, 1058 DOI: 10.1039/C9BM01383K

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