[HTML][HTML] Peptide nanozymes: An emerging direction for functional enzyme mimics

S He, L Ma, Q Zheng, Z Wang, W Chen, Z Yu, X Yan… - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
The abundance of molecules on early Earth likely enabled a wide range of prebiotic
chemistry, with peptides playing a key role in the development of early life forms and the …

Coacervates Composed of Low‐Molecular‐Weight Compounds–Molecular Design, Stimuli Responsiveness, Confined Reaction

SL Higashi, M Ikeda - Advanced Biology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of coacervation within living cells through liquid–liquid phase separation has
inspired scientists to investigate its fundamental principles and significance. Indeed …

Supramolecular J‐ and H‐Aggregation of Naphthalimide‐Conjugated Dipeptide in Mixed‐Solvent Systems and its Application in Cell Imaging

S Kuila, KP Reddy, S Dasgupta, A Bera… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a core‐substituted NMI‐conjugated dipeptide (4MNLV) was extensively studied
in mixed solvent systems to explore the polarity effect on the self‐assembly pattern and their …

Supramolecular Gelation Based on Native Amino Acid Tyrosine and Its Charge-Transfer Complex Formation

P Singh, MS Yadav, S Kuila, AK Paul, D Ray, S Misra… - Langmuir, 2025 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of amino acids and short-peptide derivatives attracted significant curiosity
worldwide due to their unique self-assembly process and wide variety of applications. Amino …

Fmoc-conjugated dipeptides-based hydrogels and their pH-tuneable behaviour

S Kuila, S Misra, R Saha, L Ghosh, P Singh, A Ghosh… - Soft Matter, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we designed three dipeptide-based hydrogelators by attaching different
hydrophilic amino acids (aspartic acid, glutamic acid, and glutamine) to Fmoc-conjugated …

Impact of molecular structure as sticker–spacer model on formation and internal environments of coacervates composed of low-molecular-weight compounds

S Higashi, R Fujimoto, K Hirosawa, K Suzuki, M Ikeda - 2025 - chemrxiv.org
Coacervates formed through liquid–liquid phase separation have been established as
potential protocells. Unlike widely studied macromolecules, coacervates from low-molecular …