Self-assembled peptide and protein amyloid nanostructures have traditionally been
considered only as pathological aggregates implicated in human neurodegenerative …

The fundamental roles that peptides and proteins play in today's biology makes it almost
indisputable that peptides were key players in the origin of life. Insofar as it is appropriate to …

Peptide materials have a wide array of functions, from tissue engineering and surface
coatings to catalysis and sensing. Tuning the sequence of amino acids that comprise the …

Short peptides are uniquely versatile building blocks for self-assembly. Supramolecular
peptide assemblies can be used to construct functional hydrogel biomaterials—an attractive …

Peptides that self-assemble into nanostructures are of tremendous interest for biological,
medical, photonic and nanotechnological applications. The enormous sequence space that …

Aromatic peptide amphiphiles are gaining popularity as building blocks for the bottom-up
fabrication of nanomaterials, including gels. These materials combine the simplicity of small …

The ribosome is an ancient molecular fossil that provides a telescope to the origins of life.
Made from RNA and protein, the ribosome translates mRNA to coded protein in all living …

Two complementary strategies can be used in the fabrication of molecular biomaterials. In
the'top-down'approach, biomaterials are generated by stripping down a complex entity into …

Tubular nanostructures are suggested to have a wide range of applications in
nanotechnology. We report our observation of the self-assembly of a very short peptide, the …

Amyloid fibrils formed from different proteins, each associated with a particular disease,
contain a common cross-β spine. The atomic architecture of a spine, from the fibril-forming …