Recent advances in self-assembled peptides: Implications for targeted drug delivery and vaccine engineering

S Eskandari, T Guerin, I Toth, RJ Stephenson - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Self-assembled peptides have shown outstanding characteristics for vaccine delivery and
drug targeting. Peptide molecules can be rationally designed to self-assemble into specific …

Designer self-assembling peptide nanofiber biological materials

CAE Hauser, S Zhang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Scientists and bioengineers have dreamed of designing materials from the bottom up with
the finest detail and ultimate control at the single molecular level. The discovery of a class of …

Biomedical applications of self-assembling peptides

M Rad-Malekshahi, L Lempsink, M Amidi… - Bioconjugate …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Self-assembling peptides have gained increasing attention as versatile molecules to
generate diverse supramolecular structures with tunable functionality. Because of the …

Short to ultrashort peptide-based hydrogels as a platform for biomedical applications

N Yadav, MK Chauhan, VS Chauhan - Biomaterials science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Short peptides have attracted significant attention from researchers in the past few years due
to their easy design, synthesis and characterization, diverse functionalisation possibilities …

Review self‐assembly of amphipathic β‐sheet peptides: insights and applications

CJ Bowerman, BL Nilsson - Peptide Science, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Amphipathic peptides composed of alternating polar and nonpolar residues have a strong
tendency to self‐assemble into one‐dimensional, amyloid‐like fibril structures. Fibrils …

Discovery and design of self-assembling peptides

S Zhang - Interface focus, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Peptides are ubiquitous in nature and useful in many fields, from agriculture as pesticides, in
medicine as antibacterial and antifungal drugs founded in the innate immune systems, to …

Amphiphilic peptides as novel nanomaterials: design, self-assembly and application

F Qiu, Y Chen, C Tang, X Zhao - International journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Designer self-assembling peptides are a category of emerging nanobiomaterials which
have been widely investigated in the past decades. In this field, amphiphilic peptides have …

Designer self-assembling peptide nanomaterials

Y Yanlian, K Ulung, W **umei, A Horii, H Yokoi… - Nano Today, 2009 - Elsevier
Short peptides that are made of natural amino acids were never seriously considered as
useful materials as recent as 16 years ago. However, the discovery of a class of self …

l-Diphenylalanine Microtubes As a Potential Drug-Delivery System: Characterization, Release Kinetics, and Cytotoxicity

RF Silva, DR Araújo, ER Silva, RA Ando, WA Alves - Langmuir, 2013 - ACS Publications
Microtubes obtained from the self-assembly of l-diphenylalanine (FF-MTs) were evaluated
as potential vehicles for drug delivery. The biological marker Rhodamine B (RhB) was …

End-to-end self-assembly of RADA 16-I nanofibrils in aqueous solutions

P Arosio, M Owczarz, H Wu, A Butté, M Morbidelli - Biophysical journal, 2012 - cell.com
Abstract RADARADARADARADA (RADA 16-I) is a synthetic amphiphilic peptide designed
to self-assemble in a controlled way into fibrils and higher ordered structures depending on …