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BIOMACROMOLECULES
卷 6, 期 3, 页码 1316-1321出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm049284w
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- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB004416, EB004416] Funding Source: Medline
A pair of mutually attractive but self-repulsive decapeptides, with alternating charged/neutral amino acid sequence patterns, was found to co-assemble into a viscoelastic material upon mixing at a low total peptide concentration of 0.25 wt %. Circular dichroism spectroscopy of individual decapeptide solutions revealed their random coil conformation. Transmission electron microscopy images showed the nanofibrillar network structure of the hydrogel. Dynamic theological characterization revealed its high elasticity and shear-thinning nature. Furthermore, the co-assembled hydrogel was capable of rapid recoveries from repeated shear-induced breakdowns, a property desirable for designing injectable biomaterials for controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering applications. A systematic variation of the neutral amino acids in the sequence revealed some of the design principles for this class of biornaterials. First, viscoelastic properties of the hydrogels can be tuned through adjusting the hydrophobicity of the neutral amino acids. Second, the P-sheet propensity of the neutral amino acid residue in the peptides is critical for hydrogelation.
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