Journal
NANOMEDICINE
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 823-847Publisher
FUTURE MEDICINE LTD
DOI: 10.2217/NNM.13.65
Keywords
beta-sheet; coiled coil; extracellular matrix; fiber; hydrogel; nanostructure; peptide; scaffold; self-assembly; tissue engineering
Funding
- Leeds Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering
- Wellcome Trust
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [WT088908/z/09/z]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I019103/1, EP/J017620/1, EP/G032483/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G032483/1, EP/I019103/1, EP/J017620/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Tissue engineered therapies are emerging as solutions to several of the medical challenges facing aging societies. To this end, a fundamental research goal is the development of novel biocompatible materials and scaffolds. Self-assembling peptides are materials that have undergone rapid development in the last two decades and they hold promise in meeting some of these challenges. Using amino acids as building blocks enables a great versatility to be incorporated into the structures that peptides form, their physical properties and their interactions with biological systems. This review discusses several classes of short self-assembling sequences, explaining the principles that drive their self-assembly into structures with nanoscale ordering, and highlighting in vitro and in vivo studies that demonstrate the potential of these materials as novel soft tissue engineering scaffolds.
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