Self-assembly of peptides to nanostructures

D Mandal, AN Shirazi, K Parang - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The formation of well-ordered nanostructures through self-assembly of diverse organic and
inorganic building blocks has drawn much attention owing to their potential applications in …

Cyclic cell-penetrating peptides as efficient intracellular drug delivery tools

SE Park, MI Sajid, K Parang, RK Tiwari - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cyclic cell-penetrating peptides are relatively a newer class of peptides that have a huge
potential for the intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents aimed at treating challenging …

Self-assembled peptide nanostructures for functional materials

MS Ekiz, G Cinar, MA Khalily, MO Guler - Nanotechnology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Nature is an important inspirational source for scientists, and presents complex and elegant
examples of adaptive and intelligent systems created by self-assembly. Significant effort has …

Self-assembling peptides-based nano-cargos for targeted chemotherapy and immunotherapy of tumors: Recent developments, challenges, and future perspectives

XJ Wang, J Cheng, LY Zhang, JG Zhang - Drug Delivery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Self-assembling peptides (SAPs) have enormous potential in medical and biological
applications, particularly noninvasive tumor therapy. SAPs self-assembly is governed by …

Silver-incorporating peptide and protein supramolecular nanomaterials for biomedical applications

M Abbas, A Atiq, R Xing, X Yan - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The natural biomolecules of peptides and proteins are able to form elegant metal
incorporating supramolecular nanomaterials through multiple weak non-covalent …

Tunable synthesis of self-assembled cyclic peptide nanotubes and nanoparticles

L Sun, Z Fan, Y Wang, Y Huang, M Schmidt, M Zhang - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
While tremendous efforts have been made in investigating scalable approaches for
fabricating nanoparticles, less progress has been made in scalable synthesis of cyclic …

Ultrashort Peptides—A Glimpse into the Structural Modifications and Their Applications as Biomaterials

R Das, B Gayakvad, SD Shinde, J Rani… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Because of their commanding properties, ultrashort and short peptides are gaining
significance as viable candidates for molecular self-assembly, which is a naturally inspired …

Identification of a Novel Biosurfactant with Antimicrobial Activity Produced by Rhodococcus opacus R7

J Zampolli, A De Giani, A Di Canito, G Sello… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rhodococcus members excrete secondary metabolites, especially compounds which act as
biosurfactants. In this work, we demonstrated the ability of Rhodococcus opacus R7 to …

Cyclic peptide–selenium nanoparticles as drug transporters

A Nasrolahi Shirazi, RK Tiwari, D Oh… - Molecular …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A cyclic peptide composed of five tryptophan, four arginine, and one cysteine [W5R4C] was
synthesized. The peptide was evaluated for generating cyclic peptide-capped selenium …

Amphiphilic cell-penetrating peptides containing natural and unnatural amino acids as drug delivery agents

D Salehi, S Mozaffari, K Zoghebi, S Lohan, D Mandal… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
A series of cyclic peptides,[(DipR)(WR) 4],[(DipR) 2 (WR) 3],[(DipR) 3 (WR) 2],[(DipR) 4
(WR)], and [DipR] 5, and their linear counterparts containing arginine (R) as positively …