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ADVANCED MATERIALS
卷 32, 期 39, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202003310
关键词
coiled coils; immunotherapies; nanostructures; self-assembling peptides
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资金
- National Institutes of Health [NIBIB 5R01EB009701]
- Biomedical Engineering Department of Duke University
- North Carolina Biotechnology Center [2017-IDG-1018]
- NIH [P30CA016086]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships [DGE-1644868]
Peptide nanofibers are useful for many biological applications, including immunotherapy, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. The robust lengthwise assembly of these peptides into nanofibers is typically difficult to control, resulting in polydisperse fiber lengths and an incomplete understanding of how nanofiber length affects biological responses. Here, rationally designed capping peptides control the length of helical peptide nanofibers with unique precision. These designed peptides bind the tips of elongated nanofibers to shorten and narrow their length distributions. Demonstrating their use as immunotherapies, capped nanofibers are preferentially cross-presented by dendritic cells compared to uncapped nanofibers. Due to increased cross-presentation, these capped nanofibers trigger stronger CD8(+)T-cell responses in mice than uncapped nanofibers. This strategy illustrates a means for controlling the length of supramolecular peptide nanofibers to modulate their immunogenicity in the context of immunotherapies.
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