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 …

Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

Controlling the self-assembly of biomolecules into functional nanomaterials through internal interactions and external stimulations: A review

L Wang, C Gong, X Yuan, G Wei - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Biomolecular self-assembly provides a facile way to synthesize functional nanomaterials.
Due to the unique structure and functions of biomolecules, the created biological …

Self-assembly of aromatic amino acid enantiomers into supramolecular materials of high rigidity

S Bera, B Xue, P Rehak, G Jacoby, W Ji, LJW Shimon… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Most natural biomolecules may exist in either of two enantiomeric forms. Although in nature,
amino acid biopolymers are characterized by l-type homochirality, incorporation of d-amino …

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 …

Entropically-Driven Co-assembly of l-Histidine and l-Phenylalanine to Form Supramolecular Materials

OS Tiwari, R Aizen, M Meli, G Colombo, LJW Shimon… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular self-and co-assembly allow the formation of diverse and well-defined
supramolecular structures with notable physical properties. Among the associating …

Ultraviolet–visible–near-infrared optical properties of amyloid fibrils shed light on amyloidogenesis

J Pansieri, V Josserand, SJ Lee, A Rongier, D Imbert… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Amyloid fibres attract considerable interest due to their biological role in neurodegenerative
diseases and their potential as functional biomaterials. Here, we describe an intrinsic signal …

Aromatic short peptide architectonics: Assembly and engineering

K Tao, H Wu, L Adler-Abramovich, J Zhang… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Since the report of diphenylalanine (FF) peptide self-assembly into discrete nanostructures
in 2003, aromatic short peptide architectonics have been extensively studied globally and …

Self-assembly of amino acids toward functional biomaterials

H Ren, L Wu, L Tan, Y Bao, Y Ma… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2021 - beilstein-journals.org
Biomolecules, such as proteins and peptides, can be self-assembled. They are widely
distributed, easy to obtain, and biocompatible. However, the self-assembly of proteins and …

Green fluorescent protein inspired fluorophores

J Kong, Y Wang, W Qi, M Huang, R Su, Z He - Advances in Colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Green fluorescence proteins (GFP) are appealing to a variety of biomedical and
biotechnology applications, such as protein fusion, subcellular localizations, cell …