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Author Spotlight: Improving the Production of Self-Assembling Fibers and Peptide Hydrogels for Superior Biocompatibility
Published on: September 6, 2024
Cooperative, ion-sensitive co-assembly of tripeptide hydrogels
Yousef M Abul-Haija1, Gary G Scott, Jugal Kishore Sahoo
1WestCHEM/Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G1 1XL, UK. Yousef.abul-haija@glasgow.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Peptide co-assembly is of interest for the development of functional supramolecular biomaterials. Herein, computational simulations were combined with experimental validation to aid the design and understanding of cooperative co-assembly of a structure-forming tripeptide (FFD) and a functional copper-binding tripeptide (GHK) leading to hydrogel formation in response to complexation with copper ions.
