Intrinsic antifungal activity of curli nanofibers expands the design space for programmable antimicrobial biomaterials
Nicolas Burns, Anna Kurowski, Hoda M Hammad, Braden Ross, Matthew Bryant, Anna Duraj‐Thatte
The paper discovers that wild-type curli nanofibers have intrinsic antifungal activity and shows that fusing them with heliomicin enhances this activity against Candida albicans.
bioRxiv · Aug 19, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering