Self-assembly of aramid amphiphiles into ultra-stable nanoribbons and aligned nanoribbon threads

T Christoff-Tempesta, Y Cho, DY Kim, M Geri… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Small-molecule self-assembly is an established route for producing high-surface-area
nanostructures with readily customizable chemistries and precise molecular organization …

Structures of synthetic helical filaments and tubes based on peptide and peptido-mimetic polymers

JG Miller, SA Hughes, C Modlin… - Quarterly Reviews of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Synthetic peptide and peptido-mimetic filaments and tubes represent a diverse class of
nanomaterials with a broad range of potential applications, such as drug delivery, vaccine …

Heterogeneity in α-synuclein fibril activity correlates to disease phenotypes in Lewy body dementia

A Sokratian, J Ziaee, K Kelly, A Chang, N Bryant… - Acta …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract α-Synuclein aggregation underlies pathological changes in Lewy body dementia.
Recent studies highlight structural variabilities associated with α-synuclein aggregates in …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of Aβ42, Aβ40, and α-synuclein fibrils: a coarse-grained method to complement experimental studies

AB Poma, HV Guzman, MS Li… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2019 - beilstein-journals.org
We perform molecular dynamics simulation on several relevant biological fibrils associated
with neurodegenerative diseases such as Aβ 40, Aβ 42, and α-synuclein systems to obtain a …

Mechanical unfolding of alpha-and beta-helical protein motifs

EP DeBenedictis, S Keten - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Alpha-helices and beta-sheets are the two most common secondary structure motifs in
proteins. Beta-helical structures merge features of the two motifs, containing two or three …

[HTML][HTML] Bottom-up synthesis of protein-based nanomaterials from engineered β-solenoid proteins

Z Peng, MDR Peralta, DL Cox, MD Toney - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Biomolecular self-assembly is an emerging bottom-up approach for the synthesis of novel
nanomaterials. DNA and viruses have both been used to create scaffolds but the former …

Flat Solenoidal Ice‐Binding Proteins as Scaffolds for Solid‐Binders

RJ de Haas, J van Ossenbruggen… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solid interfacing biomaterials is a crucial aspect of bionanotechnology and important for
applications such as biosensing. Because of their potentially large contact area, flat …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assembled molecular nanomaterials and their applications

Y Cho - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Self-assembly of small molecules in water provides a bottom-up strategy to generate highly
ordered nanostructures with dimensions on molecular (< 10 nm) length scales. However …

Amyloid fibril formation of the parathyroid hormone

B Voigt - 2024 - repo.bibliothek.uni-halle.de
Amyloid fibrils are found in almost all aspects of life and are often associated with neurotoxic
effects as in eg Alzheimer's disease. Exemplary, fibrils can also perform functional tasks …

HIGH AFFINITY VIRAL CAPTURE HUMAN DECOY BASED PROTEINS FOR DETECTION AND PROTECTION AGAINST SARS-CoV-2 AND ZOONOTIC THREATS

MD Toney, DL Cox - US Patent App. 17/921,303, 2023 - Google Patents
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