Redox-responsive self-assembled peptide hydrogel for mitochondrial-targeted anticancer drug delivery

L Mei, Q Mei, W Dong, S Wu - Applied Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Achieving controlled release and organelle-targeted drug delivery to improve therapeutic
efficacy while minimizing side effects on surrounding healthy cells remains challenging …

Fluorinated Peptide Nanoscale Hydrogel Accelerates Wound Healing via pH and Oxygen Microenvironment Regulation

L Mei, H Yang, W Dong, M Liu… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The abnormal levels of pH and oxygen (O2) in the wound microenvironment impeded
wound healing, and their regulation remains a challenge. Thus, a wound dressing with pH …

Self-Assembled Materials Based on Fully Aromatic Peptides: The Impact of Tryptophan, Tyrosine, and Dopa Residues

N Balasco, D Altamura, PL Scognamiglio, T Sibillano… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Peptides are able to self-organize in structural elements including cross-β structures. Taking
advantage of this tendency, in the last decades, peptides have been scrutinized as …

Self‐assembly of heterochiral, aliphatic dipeptides with Leu

E Scarel, M De Corti, M Polentarutti… - Journal of Peptide …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This work describes the self‐assembly behavior of heterochiral, aliphatic dipeptides, l‐Leu‐
d‐Xaa (Xaa= Ala, Val, Ile, Leu), in green solvents such as acetonitrile (MeCN) and buffered …

Wound microenvironment‐responsive peptide hydrogel with multifunctionalities for accelerating wound healing

W Dong, H Yang, M Liu, L Mei… - Journal of Peptide …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The fabrication of wound microenvironment‐responsive peptide hydrogels with hemostatic
ability, antibacterial activity, and wound healing potential remains a challenge. Herein, we …

Structure of a Supramolecular Water Copolymer

JF Woods, K Zhang, J Peterschmitt, O Blacque… - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular polymerization is well
documented, however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes …

Minimal peptoid dynamics inform self-assembly propensity

HWA Swanson, KHA Lau, T Tuttle - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Peptoids are structural isomers of natural peptides, with side chain attachment at the amide
nitrogen, conferring this class of compounds with the ability to access both cis and trans ω …