Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry

F Sheehan, D Sementa, A Jain, M Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry seeks to mimic the ability of life forms to
use conserved sets of building blocks and chemical reactions to achieve a bewildering array …

Supramolecular helical systems: helical assemblies of small molecules, foldamers, and polymers with chiral amplification and their functions

E Yashima, N Ousaka, D Taura, K Shimomura… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this review, we describe the recent advances in supramolecular helical assemblies
formed from chiral and achiral small molecules, oligomers (foldamers), and helical and …

Prebiotic peptides: Molecular hubs in the origin of life

M Frenkel-Pinter, M Samanta, G Ashkenasy… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
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 …

Small bioactive peptides for biomaterials design and therapeutics

IW Hamley - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review is aimed to provide a concise yet extensive survey of key short bioactive peptide
sequences for a range of applications ranging from biomaterials development to peptides …

Asymmetric catalysis mediated by synthetic peptides, version 2.0: expansion of scope and mechanisms

AJ Metrano, AJ Chinn, CR Shugrue, EA Stone… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Low molecular weight synthetic peptides have been demonstrated to be effective catalysts
for an increasingly wide array of asymmetric transformations. In many cases, these peptide …

Self‐Assembling Peptide‐Based Functional Biomaterials

Y Huo, J Hu, Y Yin, P Liu, K Cai, W Ji - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Peptides can self‐assemble into various hierarchical nanostructures through noncovalent
interactions and form functional materials exhibiting excellent chemical and physical …

Systems chemistry of peptide-assemblies for biochemical transformations

A Chatterjee, A Reja, S Pal, D Das - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
During the billions of years of the evolutionary journey, primitive polymers, involved in proto
metabolic pathways with low catalytic activity, played critical roles in the emergence of …

Catalytic peptide assemblies

O Zozulia, MA Dolan, IV Korendovych - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of molecules often results in new emerging properties. Even very short
peptides can self-assemble into structures with a variety of physical and structural …

Peptide‐based molecular hydrogels as supramolecular protein mimics

N Singh, M Kumar, JF Miravet, RV Ulijn… - … –A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This Minireview concerns recent advances in the design, synthesis, and application of low
molecular‐weight peptidic hydrogelators. The sequence‐specific combinations of amino …

Switchable hydrolase based on reversible formation of supramolecular catalytic site using a self‐assembling peptide

C Zhang, R Shafi, A Lampel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The reversible regulation of catalytic activity is a feature found in natural enzymes which is
not commonly observed in artificial catalytic systems. Here, we fabricate an artificial …