Journal
MOLECULAR SIMULATION
Volume 44, Issue 11, Pages 930-945Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2018.1469754
Keywords
pi-conjugated oligopeptides; molecular dynamics simulation; supramolecular peptides; self-assembly; quantitative structure-property relationships
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1729011]
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Self-assembling oligopeptides present a means to fabricate biocompatible supramolecular aggregates with engineered electronic and optical functionality. We conducted molecular dynamics simulations of self-assembling synthetic oligopeptides with Asp-X cores that mediate hydrophobic stacking and electron delocalisation within the self-assembled nanostructure. The larger PDI cores elevated oligomerisation free energies by a factor of 2-3 relative to NDI and also improved alignment of the oligopeptides within the stack. Training of a quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) model revealed key physicochemical determinants of the oligomerisation free energies and produced a predictive model for the oligomerisation thermodynamics. Oligopeptides with moderate dimerisation and trimerisation free energies of produced aggregates with the best in-register parallel stacking, and we used this criterion within our QSPR model to perform high-throughput virtual screening to identify promising candidates for the spontaneous assembly of ordered nanoaggregates. We identified a small number of oligopeptide candidates for direct testing in large scale molecular simulations, and predict a novel chemistry DAVG-PDI-GVAD previously unstudied by experiment or simulation to produce well-aligned nanoaggregates expected to possess good optical and electronic functionality.
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