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The goal in biomaterial surface modification is to retain a material's bulk properties while modifying only its surface to possess desired recognition and specificity. Here we develop a unique strategy for surface functionalization of an electrically conductive polymer, chlorine-doped polypyrrole (PPyCl), which has been widely researched for various electronic and biomedical applications. An M13 bacteriophage library was used to screen 109 different 12-mer peptide inserts against PPyCl. A binding phage (ϕT59) was isolated, and its binding stability and specificity to PPyCl was assessed using fluorescence microscopy and titer count analysis. The relative binding strength and mechanism of the corresponding 12-mer peptide and its variants was studied using atomic force microscopy and fluorescamine assays. Further, the T59 peptide was joined to a cell adhesive sequence and used to promote cell attachment on PPyCl. This strategy can be extended to immobilize a variety of molecules to PPyCl for numerous applications. In addition, phage display can be applied to other polymers to develop bioactive materials without altering their bulk properties.
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This work was supported by the Gillson Longenbaugh Foundation (C. E. S.) and the Welch Foundation (C. E. S.), the Packard Foundation (A. M. B.) and the National Science Foundation (A. M. B.). The authors wish to thank the Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology for use of the AFM, and Wolfgang Frey for helpful discussions on peptide interactions and force spectroscopy. We would also like to thank John Mendenhall and Klaus Linse at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology for their help with confocal microscopy and peptide synthesis (and other peptide related discussions), respectively.
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Sanghvi, A., Miller, KH., Belcher, A. et al. Biomaterials functionalization using a novel peptide that selectively binds to a conducting polymer. Nature Mater 4, 496–502 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1397
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