Peptide self-assembly through liquid-liquid phase separation

C Yuan, Q Li, R Xing, J Li, X Yan - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Peptide self-assembly provides an innovative strategy for not only establishing an ideal
research model to understand life phenomena but also for constructing sophisticated …

Peptide self-assembly: thermodynamics and kinetics

J Wang, K Liu, R Xing, X Yan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembling systems play a significant role in physiological functions and have therefore
attracted tremendous attention due to their great potential for applications in energy …

Towards an understanding of amyloid-β oligomers: characterization, toxicity mechanisms, and inhibitors

SJC Lee, E Nam, HJ Lee, MG Savelieff… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by an imbalance between production and
clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ) species. Aβ peptides can transform structurally from monomers …

Amyloid β protein and Alzheimer's disease: When computer simulations complement experimental studies

J Nasica-Labouze, PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) challenges our society with an annual estimated cost of $1.08
trillion in the United States alone by 2050. 1 AD is a progressive irreversible neurological …

Systems chemistry of peptide-assemblies for biochemical transformations

A Chatterjee, A Reja, S Pal, D Das - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
During the billions of years of the evolutionary journey, primitive polymers, involved in proto
metabolic pathways with low catalytic activity, played critical roles in the emergence of …

Chiral self-assembly of peptides: Toward the design of supramolecular polymers with enhanced chemical and biological functions

Y Shen, Y Wang, IW Hamley, W Qi, R Su… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chirality is one of the most important structural features in biological systems. Peptides, as a
class of small biomolecules, can self-assemble into various chiral supramolecular polymers …

Structural studies of amyloid proteins at the molecular level

DS Eisenberg, MR Sawaya - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Dozens of proteins are known to convert to the aggregated amyloid state. These include
fibrils associated with systemic and neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, functional …

Supramolecular biofunctional materials

J Zhou, J Li, X Du, B Xu - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
This review discusses supramolecular biofunctional materials, a novel class of biomaterials
formed by small molecules that are held together via noncovalent interactions. The …

Catalytic diversity in self-propagating peptide assemblies

TO Omosun, MC Hsieh, WS Childers, D Das… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The protein-only infectious agents known as prions exist within cellular matrices as
populations of assembled polypeptide phases ranging from particles to amyloid fibres …

Metal-ion modulated structural transformation of amyloid-like dipeptide supramolecular self-assembly

W Ji, C Yuan, S Zilberzwige-Tal, R Xing… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The misfolding of proteins and peptides potentially leads to a conformation transition from an
α-helix or random coil to β-sheet-rich fibril structures, which are associated with various …