Functionalized DNA-spider silk nanohydrogels for controlled protein binding and release.

"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This work was financially supported by the DFG grant SFB 840 TP A8 as well as the EU grand EFRE, Ziel ETZ 2014–2020, Freistaat Bayern—Tschechien, Project Nr. 123. The authors thank Dr. Tamara Aigner for TEM and Demetrio Piro for assistance with the coagulation assay and the assembly of the nanohydrogels on Si-wafers. M. Humenik: Supervision, Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Writing - Original draft, Writing - Review and Editing, Visualization, Funding acquisition. T. Preiß: Investigation, Validation, Data curation. S. Gödrich: Investigation, Validation, Data curation, Writing - Review and Editing. G. Papastavrou: Writing – Review & Editing, Resources. T. Scheibel: Writing – Review & Editing, Resources, Funding acquisition."