Vir. J. Nan. Sci. & Tech. / Volume 25 / Issue 7 / SUPRAMOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSEMBLY

Tripeptide self-assembled hydrogels: unexpected twists of chirality

Source: Chem. Commun. 48, 2195 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2cc16609g

Issue Date: 13 February 2012

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PUBLICATION DATA

ISSN:

1553-9644 (online)

Publisher:

RSC

Silvia Marchesan
CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Private Bag 10, Bayview Avenue, Clayton VIC 3168, Australia. silvia.marchesan@csiro.au

Christopher D. Easton

Firdawosia Kushkaki

Lynne Waddington

Patrick G. Hartley

Changeof chirality of the first N-terminal amino acid of tripeptidesVFF and FFV from l to d results in self-assembledhydrogels at physiological pH from non-assembling l-analogues. Interestingly, changing thechirality of F yields very different nanostructures; nanotapes are observedfor ^DVFF, twisted fibers for ^DFFV. ©2012

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2cc16609g

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Tripeptide self-assembled hydrogels: unexpected twists of chirality

Source: Chem. Commun. 48, 2195 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2cc16609g