Frontispiece: Chemical and Enzymatic Strategies for Bacterial and Mammalian Cell Surface Engineering

Abstract

Cell surfaces mediate crucial functions in cell–cell and cell–environment interactions. Compared with the traditional cell‐surface display technology using genetic engineering, chemical and enzymatic methods for cell surface modification have certain distinct advantages. The ability to redecorate the bacterial or mammalian cell surface with a wide range of unnatural functional molecules makes them great enabling tools in the study of cell behaviors and for the development of novel cell‐based therapeutics. Read more in the Minireview by Liu et al. on page 8042 ff.