Ultrasmall natural peptides self-assemble to strong temperature-resistant helical fibers in scaffolds suitable for tissue engineering

A Mishra, Y Loo, R Deng, YJ Chuah, HT Hee, JY Ying… - Nano Today, 2011 - Elsevier
A new class of systematically designed ultrasmall (tri-to heptamer) peptides presents the
smallest natural, non-aromatic structures that self-assemble in water to hydrogels. The …

From short peptides to nanofibers to macromolecular assemblies in biomedicine

Y Loo, S Zhang, CAE Hauser - Biotechnology advances, 2012 - Elsevier
In the last few years, a variety of self-assembling short peptides that consist exclusively of
simple amino acids have been designed and modified. These peptides exhibit self …

Rigid, self‐assembled hydrogel composed of a modified aromatic dipeptide

A Mahler, M Reches, M Rechter, S Cohen… - Advanced …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Biological building blocks construct complex architectures and machinery through the
process of molecular self-assembly. This process offers a new direction for the design and …

Stimuli-responsive, pentapeptide, nanofiber hydrogel for tissue engineering

JD Tang, C Mura, KJ Lampe - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Short peptides are uniquely versatile building blocks for self-assembly. Supramolecular
peptide assemblies can be used to construct functional hydrogel biomaterials—an attractive …

[HTML][HTML] Rational molecular design of complementary self-assembling peptide hydrogels

S Kyle, SH Felton, MJ McPherson… - Advanced healthcare …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the past 20 years self-assembling peptides have been shown to be of value as
scaffolds in the field of tissue engineering.[1] Self-assembling peptides offer many …

Self‐assembling peptides: From a discovery in a yeast protein to diverse uses and beyond

S Zhang - Protein Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Well‐defined nanofiber scaffold hydrogels made of self‐assembling peptides have found
their way into various 3D tissue culture and clinical products. I reflect initial puzzlement of the …

Biomimetic self-assembling peptide hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

J Lu, X Wang - Biomimetic Medical Materials: From Nanotechnology to …, 2018 - Springer
Tissue engineering is an appealing research field that involves the replacement and repair
of damaged cells and tissues. Scientists and researchers are facing a great challenge to …

Designer self-assembling peptide nanofiber biological materials

CAE Hauser, S Zhang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Scientists and bioengineers have dreamed of designing materials from the bottom up with
the finest detail and ultimate control at the single molecular level. The discovery of a class of …

Peptide-based and polypeptide-based hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue engineering

A Altunbas, DJ Pochan - Peptide-based materials, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Bio-inspired materials chemistry is an interdisciplinary field in which biological
functions and structures are used as inspirations to construct a wide variety of new synthetic …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assemble peptide biomaterials and their biomedical applications

J Chen, X Zou - Bioactive materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Inspired by self-assembling peptides found in native proteins, deliberately designed
engineered peptides have shown outstanding biocompatibility, biodegradability, and …