Histidine as a key modulator of molecular self-assembly: Peptide-based supramolecular materials inspired by biological systems

Y Chen, K Tao, W Ji, VB Kumar, S Rencus-Lazar… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Histidine, a versatile proteinogenic amino acid, plays a broad range of roles in all living
organisms and behaves as a key mediator of the interactions of biomolecules with inorganic …

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 …

Peptide self-assembled nanocarriers for cancer drug delivery

VB Kumar, B Ozguney, A Vlachou, Y Chen… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The design of novel cancer drug nanocarriers is critical in the framework of cancer
therapeutics. Nanomaterials are gaining increased interest as cancer drug delivery systems …

Self‐assembled peptide nano‐superstructure towards enzyme mimicking hydrolysis

Y Chen, Y Yang, AA Orr, P Makam, B Redko… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The structural arrangement of amino acid residues in native enzymes underlies their
remarkable catalytic properties, thus providing a notable point of reference for designing …

Chiral self-assembly of peptides: Toward the design of supramolecular polymers with enhanced chemical and biological functions

Y Shen, Y Wang, IW Hamley, W Qi, R Su… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chirality is one of the most important structural features in biological systems. Peptides, as a
class of small biomolecules, can self-assemble into various chiral supramolecular polymers …

Fmoc-diphenylalanine gelating nanoarchitectonics: A simplistic peptide self-assembly to meet complex applications

Y Wang, Q Geng, Y Zhang, L Adler-Abramovich… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-diphenylalanine (Fmoc-FF), has been has been extensively
explored due to its ultrafast self-assembly kinetics, inherent biocompatibility, tunable …

Magnetically driven nanorobots based on peptides nanodots with tunable photoluminescence for rapid scavenging reactive α-dicarbonyl species and effective …

XY Yuan, C Meng, H Liu, B Sun - Food chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work constructed magnetically driven nanorobots by conjugating the
photoluminescent β-alanine-histidine (β-AH) nanodots to superparamagnetic nanoparticles …

Low molecular weight self-assembling peptide-based materials for cell culture, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, anticancer, drug delivery, bioimaging …

AK Das, PK Gavel - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we have focused on the design and development of low molecular weight self-
assembling peptide-based materials for various applications including cell proliferation …

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 …

High-efficiency fluorescence through bioinspired supramolecular self-assembly

Y Chen, AA Orr, K Tao, Z Wang, A Ruggiero… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peptide self-assembly has attracted extensive interest in the field of eco-friendly
optoelectronics and bioimaging due to its inherent biocompatibility, intrinsic fluorescence …