Unravelling Protein-Fungal Hyphae Interactions at the Nanoscale.

ABSTRACT: Fungal hyphae have demonstrated their importance in developing environmentally friendly, multiscale, composite assemblies where animal-derived proteins have been predominantly used as binders. Now, an ongoing challenge is to replace those high-performance animal protein binders with ecofriendly, plant-based alternatives. While the majority of studies have focused on the binding implied by rheological observations, relatively little is known about how such animal proteins bind to hyphal surfaces at nanometric length scales, and this knowledge is required to replace animal-derived binders with plant protein alternatives. Here, we decode intermolecular interactions of plant protein-based binders such as potato protein (PoP) to fungal (Fusarium venenatum) hyphae in compari

SUBMITTER: Okeudo-Cogan MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12100587 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature