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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2017

Aromatic-Aromatic Interactions Enable α-Helix to β-Sheet Transition of Peptides to Form Supramolecular Hydrogels.

Jie Li, Xuewen Du, Saqib Hashim, Adrianna Shy, Bing Xu

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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5 authors.

Jie LiDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University , 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, United States.
Xuewen DuDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University , 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, United States.
Saqib HashimDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University , 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, United States.
Adrianna ShyDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University , 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, United States.
Bing XuDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University , 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4639-387X

Funding

Subcellular Enzyme-instructed self-assembly for molecular anticancer nanomedicinesR01CA142746 · NCI · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI Bing Xu · 2010 to 2026
$6.4M
National Science Foundation MRSEC-1420382NCI NIH HHS R01 CA142746
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Isolated short peptides usually are unable to maintain their original secondary structures due to the lack of the restriction from proteins. Here we show that two complementary pentapeptides from a β-sheet motif of a protein, being connected to an aromatic motif (i.e., pyrene) at their C-terminal, self-assemble to form β-sheet like structures upon mixing. Besides enabling the self-assembly to result in supramolecular hydrogels upon mixing, aromatic-aromatic interactions promote the pentapeptides transform from α-helix to β-sheet conformation. As the first example of using aromatic-aromatic interactions to mimic the conformational restriction in a protein, this work illustrates a bioinspired way to generate peptide nanofibers with predefined secondary structures of the peptides by a rational design using protein structures as the blueprint.

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HydrogelsPeptidesProtein Conformation, alpha-HelicalProtein Conformation, beta-StrandHydrogelsPeptides

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PMID27997165
PMCPMC5477776

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