Peptide design and self-assembly into targeted nanostructure and functional materials

NJ Sinha, MG Langenstein, DJ Pochan… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Peptides have been extensively utilized to construct nanomaterials that display targeted
structure through hierarchical assembly. The self-assembly of both rationally designed …

A brief history of de novo protein design: minimal, rational, and computational

DN Woolfson - Journal of molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein design has come of age, but how will it mature? In the 1980s and the 1990s, the
primary motivation for de novo protein design was to test our understanding of the …

Intranuclear nanoribbons for selective killing of osteosarcoma cells

S Liu, Q Zhang, H He, M Yi, W Tan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we show intranuclear nanoribbons formed upon dephosphorylation of leucine‐rich L‐
or D‐phosphopeptide catalyzed by alkaline phosphatase (ALP) to selectively kill …

Cryo-EM of helical polymers

F Wang, O Gnewou, A Solemanifar… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
While the application of cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to helical polymers in
biology has a long history, due to the huge number of helical macromolecular assemblies in …

Enzymatically forming intranuclear peptide assemblies for selectively killing human induced pluripotent stem cells

S Liu, Q Zhang, AN Shy, M Yi, H He… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tumorigenic risk of undifferentiated human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), being a
major obstacle for clinical application of iPSCs, requires novel approaches for selectively …

Peptide Self-Assemblies from Unusual α-Sheet Conformations Based on Alternation of d/l Amino Acids

P Zhou, X Hu, J Li, Y Wang, H Yu, Z Chen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Peptide self-assembly is a hierarchical process during which secondary structures formed in
the initial stages play a critical role in determining the subsequent assembling processes …

Peptide bundlemer networks or lattices: controlling cross-linking and self-assembly using protein-like display of chemistry

AL McCahill, T Zhang, JG Saven, CJ Kloxin… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Coiled-coil 'bundlemer'peptides were selectively modified with allyloxycarbonyl (alloc)-
protected lysine, a non-natural amino acid containing an alkene on its side chain. The …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in peptide-based hydrogel for tissue engineering

N Bakhtiary, B Ghalandari, F Ghorbani, SN Varma… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of peptide-based materials has emerged as one of the most challenging
aspects of biomaterials in recent years. It has been widely acknowledged that peptide-based …

Coiled coils 9-to-5: rational de novo design of α-helical barrels with tunable oligomeric states

WM Dawson, FJO Martin, GG Rhys, KL Shelley… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The rational design of linear peptides that assemble controllably and predictably in water is
challenging. Short sequences must encode unique target structures and avoid alternative …

Ordered packing of β-sheet nanofibrils into nanotubes: Multi-hierarchical assembly of designed short peptides

X Ma, Y Zhao, C He, X Zhou, H Qi, Y Wang, C Chen… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although it is well-known proteins and their complexes are hierarchically organized and
highly ordered structures, it remains a major challenge to replicate their hierarchical self …