Cell-penetrating peptides: Emerging tools for mRNA delivery

H Yokoo, M Oba, S Uchida - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Messenger RNAs (mRNAs) were previously shown to have great potential for preventive
vaccination against infectious diseases and therapeutic applications in the treatment of …

Self-assembling peptide-based building blocks in medical applications

H Acar, S Srivastava, EJ Chung… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Peptides and peptide-conjugates, comprising natural and synthetic building blocks, are an
increasingly popular class of biomaterials. Self-assembled nanostructures based on …

Protein-mimetic peptide nanofibers: Motif design, self-assembly synthesis, and sequence-specific biomedical applications

W Zhang, X Yu, Y Li, Z Su, KD Jandt, G Wei - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The design and fabrication of self-assembled peptide nanostructures offer an amazing
platform for creating functional nanomaterials for various biomedical applications. Utilizing …

Pseudo-isolated α-helix platform for the recognition of deep and narrow targets

D Kim, S Han, H Park, S Choi, M Kaur… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although interest in stabilized α-helical peptides as next-generation therapeutics for
modulating biomolecular interfaces is increasing, peptides have limited functionality and …

Control of repeat-protein curvature by computational protein design

K Park, BW Shen, F Parmeggiani, PS Huang… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Shape complementarity is an important component of molecular recognition, and the ability
to precisely adjust the shape of a binding scaffold to match a target of interest would greatly …

The self‐assembly of helical peptide building blocks

S Mondal, E Gazit - ChemNanoMat, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly of peptide building blocks represents a central direction in
bionanotechnology. A β‐sheet secondary structure serves as the basis of numerous peptide …

Roles of self-assembly and secondary structures in antimicrobial peptide coatings

X Zhu, W Tang, X Cheng, H Wang, T Sang, Z Ye - Coatings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP) coatings are promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics
for the prevention of medical device-and implant-associated infections. Compared to …

Chameleon-like self-assembling peptides for adaptable biorecognition nanohybrids

W Jeong, S Choi, JS Choi, Y Lim - ACS nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present here the development of adaptable hybrid materials in which self-assembling
peptides can sense the diameter/curvature of carbon nanotubes and then adjust their overall …

Preparation of helical fibers from cellulose–cuprammonium solution based on liquid rope coiling

B Jia, L Yu, F Fu, L Li, J Zhou, L Zhang - RSC Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A new method for large-scale mimicking of the helical structure of plant tendrils from
cellulose solution was proposed based on liquid rope coiling of viscous fluid. In the spinning …

Adjustable nanofibers self-assembled from an irregular conformational peptide amphiphile

SY Qin, HF Jiang, MY Peng, Q Lei, RX Zhuo… - Polymer …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel peptide amphiphile was elegantly designed to adopt an irregular secondary
structure. The peptide could self-assemble into dendritic nanofibers and further yield the …