Self‐assembling amphiphilic peptides

A Dehsorkhi, V Castelletto… - Journal of Peptide …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly of several classes of amphiphilic peptides is reviewed, and selected
applications are discussed. We discuss recent work on the self‐assembly of lipopeptides …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotubes self-assembled from amphiphilic molecules via helical intermediates

TG Barclay, K Constantopoulos, J Matisons - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the miniaturization of manufactured goods, the practical limits of what can be achieved
when engineering from the “top down” are being approached.(1-9) Despite the continuing …

Steering phase-separated droplets to control fibrillar network evolution of supramolecular peptide hydrogels

P Zhou, R **ng, Q Li, J Li, C Yuan, X Yan - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Controlling the non-covalent cross-linking network morphology of supramolecular hydrogels
is of primary importance in tuning their mechanical properties for practical biomaterial …

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 …

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 …

Different force fields give rise to different amyloid aggregation pathways in molecular dynamics simulations

S Samantray, F Yin, B Kav… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The progress toward understanding the molecular basis of Alzheimers's disease is strongly
connected to elucidating the early aggregation events of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide …

Revisiting thioflavin T (ThT) fluorescence as a marker of protein fibrillation–The prominent role of electrostatic interactions

E Arad, H Green, R Jelinek, H Rapaport - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Thioflavin T (ThT), a benzothiazole-based fluorophore, is a prominent dye widely employed
for monitoring amyloid fibril assembly. Despite the near-universal presumption that ThT …

Tunable assembly of amyloid-forming peptides into nanosheets as a retrovirus carrier

B Dai, D Li, W **, F Luo, X Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Using and engineering amyloid as nanomaterials are blossoming trends in
bionanotechnology. Here, we show our discovery of an amyloid structure, termed “amyloid …

Self‐assembly of short peptide amphiphiles: the cooperative effect of hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonding

S Han, S Cao, Y Wang, J Wang, D **a… - … A European Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay between hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interaction and the molecular
geometry of amino acid side‐chains is crucial to the development of nanostructures of short …

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 …