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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 1, Pages 71-74Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b11512
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- NIH [R01CA142746]
- NSF [MRSEC-1420382]
- W. M. Keck Foundation
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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 beta-sheet motif of a protein, being connected to an aromatic motif (i.e., pyrene) at their C-terminal, self-assemble to form beta-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 alpha-helix to beta-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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