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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 139, 期 26, 页码 8995-9000出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03878
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- Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Sciences (CBES), an Energy Frontiers Research Center (EFRC) - US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0000989]
- National Institutes of Health [4R01HL116577]
- Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource [NSF NNCI-1542205]
- MRSEC program at the Materials Research Center
- the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) [NSF DMR1121262]
- Keck Foundation
- State of Illinois, through the IIN
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) [V468915N]
- Junior Mobility Programme (JuMo) of KU Leuven [JUMO-15-0514]
- German Research Council [CRC 1066-1]
Controlling the number of monomers in a supramolecular polymer has been a great challenge in programmable self-assembly of organic molecules. One approach has been to make use of frustrated growth of the supramolecular assembly by tuning the balance of attractive and repulsive intermolecular forces. We report here on the use of covalent bond formation among monomers, compensating for intermolecular electrostatic repulsion, as a mechanism to control the length of a supramolecular nanofiber formed by self-assembly of peptide amphiphiles. Circular dichroism spectroscopy in combination with dynamic light scattering, size-exclusion chromatography, and transmittance electron microscope analyses revealed that hydrogen bonds between peptides were reinforced by covalent bond formation, enabling the fiber elongation. To examine these materials for their potential biomedical applications, cyotoxicity of nanofibers against C2C12 premyoblast cells was tested. We demonstrated that cell viability increased with an increase in fiber length, presumably because of the suppressed disruption of cell membranes by the fiber end-caps.
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