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Formation of Ordered Biomolecular Structures by the Self-assembly of Short Peptides

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Mason Hooten¹, Akash Banerjee², Meenakshi Dutt²

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States.

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Summary

This study develops a new computational method to model how short aromatic peptides self-assemble into nanostructures. The approach accurately captures peptide organization within these structures, improving upon previous coarse-grained models.

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Materials science
Nanotechnology

Background:

Short aromatic peptides self-assemble into diverse nanostructures.
Previous computational models (coarse-grained) lack accuracy in representing peptide conformation and organization within aggregates compared to all-atom models.

Purpose of the Study:

Develop a bottom-up coarse-grained (CG) force field for triphenylalanine using a hybrid structure- and force-based approach.
Improve the computational modeling of peptide self-assembly by better representing molecular details.

Main Methods:

Adapted a hybrid structure- and force-based approach to create a bottom-up CG force field.
Utilized reference data from all-atom (AA) trajectories.
Developed two CG models with different representations for aromatic side chains: a single-bead model and a three-bead model.

Main Results:

The single-bead CG model resulted in the formation of nanorods.
The three-bead CG model, which better represents aromatic ring planarity, yielded nanospheres.
Identified the influence of chemical groups and steric effects on peptide assembly and packing.

Conclusions:

The developed bottom-up CG force field accurately models peptide organization in nanostructures.
The representation of aromatic side chains significantly impacts the resulting nanostructure morphology.
This method offers a more chemically accurate and computationally efficient way to study peptide self-assembly.