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A Diphenylalanine Based Pentapeptide with Fibrillating Self-Assembling Properties
Pharmaceutics, 2023 Peptides and their related compounds can self-assemble into diverse nanostructures of different shapes and sizes in response to various stimuli such as pH, temperature or ionic strength.
Stefania-Claudia Jitaru +6 more
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Materials & Design, 2020 Self-assembling peptides (SAP) are ideal components for biomedical devices. However, their practical applications have been limited due to their intrinsic unstable, low-performance, and low-stress response given by non-covalent interactions involved in ...
Raffaele Pugliese +5 more
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Pharmaceutics, 2019 The design of nanoparticle delivery materials possessing biological activities is an attractive strategy for the development of various therapies. In this study, 11 cationic amphiphilic 4-(N-alkylpyridinium)-1,4-dihydropyridine (1,4-DHP) derivatives ...
Martins Rucins +14 more
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Structural and Nanotribological Properties of a BODIPY Self-Assembly [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Boron-dipyrromethenes (BODIPY) are promising functional dyes, whose exceptional optical properties are closely related to their supramolecular assembly. Herein, the self-assembly of a BODIPY derivative functionalized with uracil groups is explicitly and thoroughly investigated by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).
Shanchao Tan +8 more
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Mechanical characteristics of beta sheet-forming peptide hydrogels are dependent on peptide sequence, concentration and buffer composition [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Self-assembling peptide hydrogels can be modified regarding their biodegradability, their chemical and mechanical properties and their nanofibrillar structure. Thus, self-assembling peptide hydrogels might be suitable scaffolds for regenerative therapies
Franziska Koch +9 more
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Insight into the self-assembly and gel formation of a bioactive peptide derived from bovine casein
BBA Advances, 2023 Structured abstract: Abstract: The self-assembling and gelation properties of a bioactive peptide derived from bovine casein (FFVAPFPEVFGK) were studied in the peptide's natural form (uncapped, uncapFFV) and capped with protecting groups added to both ...
Noémie Petit +4 more
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Self-Assembly Dipeptide Hydrogel: The Structures and Properties [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Self-assembly peptide-based hydrogels are well known and popular in biomedical applications due to the fact that they are readily controllable and have biocompatibility properties. A dipeptide is the shortest self-assembling motif of peptides. Due to its small size and simple synthesis method, dipeptide can provide a simple and easy-to-use method to ...
Liangchun Li +3 more
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Self-assembling peptide scaffolds in the clinic
npj Regenerative Medicine, 2021 Well-defined scaffold hydrogels made of self-assembling peptides have found their way into clinical products. By examining the properties and applications of two self-assembling peptides—EAK16 and RADA16—we highlight the potential for translating ...
Fabrizio Gelain +3 more
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Deep Learning Empowers the Discovery of Self‐Assembling Peptides with Over 10 Trillion Sequences
Advanced Science, 2023 Self‐assembling of peptides is essential for a variety of biological and medical applications. However, it is challenging to investigate the self‐assembling properties of peptides within the complete sequence space due to the enormous sequence quantities.
Jiaqi Wang +6 more
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Macroscopic photonic single crystals via seeded growth of DNA-coated colloids
Nature Communications, 2023 Photonic crystals—a class of materials whose optical properties derive from their structure in addition to their composition—can be created by self-assembling particles whose sizes are comparable to the wavelengths of visible light.
Alexander Hensley +4 more
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