Amino acid sequence in constitutionally isomeric tetrapeptide amphiphiles dictates architecture of one-dimensional nanostructures

H Cui, AG Cheetham, ET Pashuck… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The switching of two adjacent amino acids can lead to differences in how proteins fold thus
affecting their function. This effect has not been extensively explored in synthetic peptides in …

Peptide tectonics: encoded structural complementarity dictates programmable self‐assembly

S Lou, X Wang, Z Yu, L Shi - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Programmable self‐assembly of peptides into well‐defined nanostructures represents one
promising approach for bioinspired and biomimetic synthesis of artificial complex systems …

Accessing highly tunable nanostructured hydrogels in a short ionic complementary peptide sequence via pH trigger

H Kaur, P Sharma, N Patel, VK Pal, S Roy - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Creating diverse nanostructures from a single gelator through modulating the self-assembly
pathway has been gaining much attention in recent years. To this direction, we are exploring …

Exploiting biocatalysis in peptide self‐assembly

RJ Williams, RJ Mart, RV Ulijn - Peptide Science: Original …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This review article covers recent developments in the use of enzyme‐catalyzed reactions to
control molecular self‐assembly (SA), an area that merges the advantages of biocatalysis …

Superstructured biomaterials formed by exchange dynamics and host–guest interactions in supramolecular polymers

AN Edelbrock, TD Clemons, SM Chin… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic and reversible assembly of molecules is ubiquitous in the hierarchical
superstructures of living systems and plays a key role in cellular functions. Recent work from …

Effect of ionic strength on the self-assembly, morphology and gelation of pH responsive β-sheet tape-forming peptides

LM Carrick, A Aggeli, N Boden, J Fisher, E Ingham… - Tetrahedron, 2007 - Elsevier
Molecular self-assembly is an intrinsic property of proteins central to their biological
functionality. One important industrially interesting property is the ability to control and switch …

Kinetically controlled coassembly of multichromophoric peptide hydrogelators and the impacts on energy transport

HAM Ardoña, ER Draper, F Citossi… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report a peptide-based multichromophoric hydrogelator system, wherein π-electron units
with different inherent spectral energies are spatially controlled within peptidic 1-D …

Enzymatic Control of the Conformational Landscape of Self‐Assembling Peptides

J Shi, G Fichman, JP Schneider - … Chemie International Edition, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐translational modification is a common mechanism to affect conformational change in
proteins, which in turn, regulates function. Herein, this principle is expanded to instruct the …

Next-generation peptide nanomaterials: molecular networks, interfaces and supramolecular functionality

M Zelzer, RV Ulijn - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
With improved understanding of the design rules for self-assembling peptides, new
challenges will be faced to incorporate these materials into dynamic systems of higher …

Dynamic reassembly of peptide RADA16 nanofiber scaffold

H Yokoi, T Kinoshita, S Zhang - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Nanofiber structures of some peptides and proteins as biological materials have been
studied extensively, but their molecular mechanism of self-assembly and reassembly still …