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ArticleNature chemical biology2025

Boolean logic-gated protein presentation through autonomously compiled molecular topology.

Ryan Gharios, Murial L Ross, Annabella Li, Shivani P Kottantharayil, Jack Hoye, Cole A DeForest

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Ryan Gharios *Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Murial L Ross *Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6878-6714
Annabella LiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Shivani P KottantharayilDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-4916-4706
Jack HoyeDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Cole A DeForestDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. profcole@uw.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0337-3577

Funding

Mimicking, Exploiting, and Understanding Biology's Heterogeneity in 4DR35GM138036 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Cole A DeForest · 2020 to 2026
$2.3M
National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR 1807398NSF | Directorate for Education & Human Resources | Division of Graduate Education (DGE) 2140004NSF | Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences | Division of Materials Research (DMR) 1807398U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM138036
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stimulus-responsive materials have enabled advanced applications in biosensing, tissue engineering and therapeutic delivery. Although controlled molecular topology has been demonstrated as an effective route toward creating materials that respond to prespecified input combinations, prior efforts suffer from a reliance on complicated and low-yielding multistep organic syntheses that dramatically limit their utility. Harnessing the power of recombinant expression, we integrate emerging chemical biology tools to create topologically specified protein cargos that can be site-specifically tethered to and conditionally released from biomaterials following user-programmable Boolean logic. Critically, construct topology is autonomously compiled during expression through spontaneous intramolecular ligations, enabling direct and scalable synthesis of advanced operators. Using this framework, we specify protein release from biomaterials following all 17 possible YES/OR/AND logic outputs from input combinations of three orthogonal protease actuators, multiplexed delivery of three distinct biomacromolecules from hydrogels, five-input-based conditional cargo liberation and logically defined protein localization on or within living mammalian cells.

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