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Published on: June 1, 2016
Combination self-assembly of β-sheet peptides and carbon nanotubes: functionalizing carbon nanotubes with bioactive
1Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract:
Understanding the self-assembly behavior of β-sheet peptides is important, not only in constructing bioactive peptide nanostructures, but also in inhibiting uncontrollable protein aggregation in protein-misfolding diseases. Here, the first systematic investigation of combination self-assembly between β-sheet block copolypeptides and CNTs is presented, demonstrating the presence of several different association modes during the combination self-assembly process. Bioactive β-sheet block copolypeptides can self-assemble by themselves, or can be used to functionalize CNT hybrids depending on the situation. This behavior may be important both for fabricating bioactive peptide/CNT hybrids and for controlling/inhibiting protein-misfolding diseases.
