Bioinspired Amino Acid Based Materials in Bionanotechnology: From Minimalistic Building Blocks and Assembly Mechanism to Applications

Y Wang, S Rencus-Lazar, H Zhou, Y Yin, X Jiang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Inspired by natural hierarchical self-assembly of proteins and peptides, amino acids, as the
basic building units, have been shown to self-assemble to form highly ordered structures …

Luminescent gold nanoclusters for bioimaging: increasing the ligand complexity

D Mordini, A Mavridi-Printezi, A Menichetti, A Cantelli… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fluorescence, and more in general, photoluminescence (PL), presents important
advantages for imaging with respect to other diagnostic techniques. In particular, detection …

Investigating the synergistic effects of high-pressure homogenization and pH shifting on the formation of tryptophan-rich nanoparticles

H Dong, L Yang, Y Dadmohammadi, P Li, T Lin, Y He… - Food Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
A combined treatment of high-pressure homogenization (HPH) and pH-shifting on the
mixture of α-lactalbumin (α-LA) and tryptophan (Trp) was used to fabricate nanoparticles (α …

Insight into the Lysozyme-Induced Aggregation of Aromatic Amino Acid-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles: Impact of the Protein Conjugation and Lipid Corona on the …

A Maity, D Bagchi, SK De, A Chakraborty - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
The aggregation and subsequent precipitation of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in the
presence of protein molecules restrict the usefulness of NPs in biomedical applications. Till …

Amyloid inspired single amino acid (phenylalanine)-based supramolecular functional assemblies: from disease to device applications

S Vishwakarma, OS Tiwari, R Shukla, E Gazit… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
In the evolving landscape of biomolecular supramolecular chemistry, recent studies on
phenylalanine (Phe) have revealed important insights into the versatile nature of this …

Inhibiting protein aggregation with nanomaterials: the underlying mechanisms and impact factors

S Wang, J Zheng, L Ma, RB Petersen, L Xu… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is correlated with the onset and progression of protein misfolding
diseases (PMDs). Inhibiting the generation of toxic aggregates of misfolded proteins has …

Fabrication and characterization of whey protein isolate-tryptophan nanoparticles by pH-shifting combined with heat treatment

L Yang, H Dong, J Wang, Y Dadmohammadi… - Food Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
L-Tryptophan (Trp) is an essential amino acid with numerous health benefits. However,
incorporating Trp into food products is limited due to its pronounced bitter taste …

Effect of Lipid Corona on Phenylalanine-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles to Develop Stable and Corona-Free Systems

H Tabassum, A Maity, K Singh, D Bagchi, A Prasad… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conventional gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) have many limitations, such as aggregation and
subsequent precipitation in the medium of high ionic strength and protein molecules …

Effect of metal ions on the intrinsic blue fluorescence property and morphology of aromatic amino acid self-assembly

D Bagchi, A Maity, SK De… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Metal ions are known to strongly bind with different proteins and peptides, resulting in
alteration of their different physicochemical properties. In this work, we investigate the effect …

Mechanistic Pathway of Lipid Phase-Dependent Lipid Corona Formation on Phenylalanine-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles: A Combined Experimental and …

A Maity, SK De, D Bagchi, H Lee… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the underlying mechanism of formation of the lipid corona and its stability
have begun to garner interest in the nanoscience community. However, until now, very little …