Lipopeptides as tools in catalysis, supramolecular, materials and medicinal chemistry

C Vicente-Garcia, I Colomer - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Lipopeptides are amphiphilic peptides in which an aliphatic chain is attached to either the C
or N terminus of peptides. Their self-assembly—into micelles, vesicles, nanotubes, fibres or …

Injectable hydrogels for localized cancer therapy

D Fan, Y Tian, Z Liu - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Traditional intravenous chemotherapy is relative to many systemic side effects, including
myelosuppression, liver or kidney dysfunction, and neurotoxicity. As an alternative method …

Low molecular weight self-assembling peptide-based materials for cell culture, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, anticancer, drug delivery, bioimaging …

AK Das, PK Gavel - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we have focused on the design and development of low molecular weight self-
assembling peptide-based materials for various applications including cell proliferation …

Krebs cycle: activators, inhibitors and their roles in the modulation of carcinogenesis

A Gasmi, M Peana, M Arshad, M Butnariu… - Archives of …, 2021 - Springer
A fundamental metabolic feature of cancerous tissues is high glucose consumption. The rate
of glucose consumption in a cancer cell can be 10–15 times higher than in normal cells …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable morphology and functionality of multicomponent self-assembly: A review

L Li, R Sun, R Zheng - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Programmed self-assembly and self-organization of well-designed molecular monomers
have been widely used to design stable nanostructures with desired structures and unique …

Amphiphilic self-assembly peptides: Rational strategies to design and delivery for drugs in biomedical applications

C Zhao, H Chen, F Wang, X Zhang - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2021 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic self-assembling peptides are widely used in tissue and cell engineering,
antimicrobials, drug-delivery systems and other biomedical fields due to their good …

Amyloid and hydrogel formation of a peptide sequence from a coronavirus spike protein

V Castelletto, IW Hamley - Acs Nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that a conserved coronavirus spike protein peptide forms amyloid
structures, differing from the native helical conformation and not predicted by amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Small-angle scattering techniques for peptide and peptide hybrid nanostructures and peptide-based biomaterials

IW Hamley, V Castelletto - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of small-angle scattering (SAS) in the study of self-assembly of peptides and
peptide conjugates (lipopeptides, polymer-peptide conjugates and others) is reviewed …

Self-assembled peptide nanostructures for ECM biomimicry

D Marin, S Marchesan - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Proteins are functional building blocks of living organisms that exert a wide variety of
functions, but their synthesis and industrial production can be cumbersome and expensive …

Self-assembly of peptides: The acceleration by molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning

N Cao, K Huang, J Xie, H Wang, X Shi - Nano Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Peptides, biopolymeric compounds connected by peptide bonds, have garnered significant
attention in recent years as their potential wide applications in fields such as drug delivery …