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Formation of Ordered Biomolecular Structures by the Self-assembly of Short Peptides
Published on: November 21, 2013
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Self-assembly of aliphatic dipeptides coupled with porphyrin and BODIPY chromophores
Emmanouil Nikoloudakis1, Konstantina Mitropoulou2, Georgios Landrou1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Voutes Campus, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece. acoutsol@uoc.gr.
Abstract:
In this work, the self assembly ability of chromophores covalently linked to aliphatic dipeptides is described. Altering various parameters such as the protecting group, the solvent mixture, the dipeptide and the chromophore resulted in different nanostructures. Interestingly, a peptide-porphyrin hybrid is capable of forming a hydrogel in HFIP-water solvent mixture.

