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Aizen R, Arnon ZA, Berger O, Ruggiero A, Zaguri D, Brown N, Shirshin E, Slutsky I, Gazit E. Intrinsic fluorescence of nucleobase crystals. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2023; 5:344-348. [PMID: 36756258 PMCID: PMC9846435 DOI: 10.1039/d2na00551d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Nucleobase crystals demonstrate unique intrinsic fluorescence properties in the visible spectral range. This is in contrast to their monomeric counterparts. Moreover, some nucleobases were found to exhibit red edge excitation shift. This behavior is uncommon in the field of organic supramolecular materials and could have implications in fields such as therapeutics of metabolic disorders and materials science.
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- Ruth Aizen
- Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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- Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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- Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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- Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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- Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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- Faculty of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow 119991 Russia
- World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign and Personalized Healthcare", I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University) 119991 Moscow Russia
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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- Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 6997801 Israel
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Antipin IS, Alfimov MV, Arslanov VV, Burilov VA, Vatsadze SZ, Voloshin YZ, Volcho KP, Gorbatchuk VV, Gorbunova YG, Gromov SP, Dudkin SV, Zaitsev SY, Zakharova LY, Ziganshin MA, Zolotukhina AV, Kalinina MA, Karakhanov EA, Kashapov RR, Koifman OI, Konovalov AI, Korenev VS, Maksimov AL, Mamardashvili NZ, Mamardashvili GM, Martynov AG, Mustafina AR, Nugmanov RI, Ovsyannikov AS, Padnya PL, Potapov AS, Selektor SL, Sokolov MN, Solovieva SE, Stoikov II, Stuzhin PA, Suslov EV, Ushakov EN, Fedin VP, Fedorenko SV, Fedorova OA, Fedorov YV, Chvalun SN, Tsivadze AY, Shtykov SN, Shurpik DN, Shcherbina MA, Yakimova LS. Functional supramolecular systems: design and applications. RUSSIAN CHEMICAL REVIEWS 2021. [DOI: 10.1070/rcr5011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Gupta S, Singh I, Sharma AK, Kumar P. Ultrashort Peptide Self-Assembly: Front-Runners to Transport Drug and Gene Cargos. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 8:504. [PMID: 32548101 PMCID: PMC7273840 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The translational therapies to promote interaction between cell and signal come with stringent eligibility criteria. The chemically defined, hierarchically organized, and simpler yet blessed with robust intermolecular association, the peptides, are privileged to make the cut-off for sensing the cell-signal for biologics delivery and tissue engineering. The signature service and insoluble network formation of the peptide self-assemblies as hydrogels have drawn a spell of research activity among the scientists all around the globe in the past decades. The therapeutic peptide market players are anticipating promising growth opportunities due to the ample technological advancements in this field. The presence of the other organic moieties, enzyme substrates and well-established protecting groups like Fmoc and Boc etc., bring the best of both worlds. Since the large sequences of peptides severely limit the purification and their isolation, this article reviews the account of last 5 years' efforts on novel approaches for formulation and development of single molecule amino acids, ultra-short peptide self-assemblies (di- and tri- peptides only) and their derivatives as drug/gene carriers and tissue-engineering systems.
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- Seema Gupta
- Chemistry Department, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- Chemistry Department, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
- Nucleic Acids Research Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
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- Nucleic Acids Research Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
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- Nucleic Acids Research Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
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Sun B, Tao K, Jia Y, Yan X, Zou Q, Gazit E, Li J. Photoactive properties of supramolecular assembled short peptides. Chem Soc Rev 2019; 48:4387-4400. [PMID: 31237282 PMCID: PMC6711403 DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00085b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Bioinspired nanostructures can be the ideal functional smart materials to bridge the fundamental biology, biomedicine and nanobiotechnology fields. Among them, short peptides are among the most preferred building blocks as they can self-assemble to form versatile supramolecular architectures displaying unique physical and chemical properties, including intriguing optical features. Herein, we discuss the progress made over the past few decades in the design and characterization of optical short peptide nanomaterials, focusing on their intrinsic photoluminescent and waveguiding performances, along with the diverse modulation strategies. We review the complicated optical properties and the advanced applications of photoactive short peptide self-assemblies, including photocatalysis, as well as photothermal and photodynamic therapy. The diverse advantages of photoactive short peptide self-assemblies, such as eco-friendliness, morphological and functional flexibility, and ease of preparation and modification, endow them with the capability to potentially serve as next-generation, bio-organic optical materials, allowing the bridging of the optics world and the nanobiotechnology field.
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- Bingbing Sun
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Lab of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Lab of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Department of Biomolecular, Assembly and Biomaterials, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Department of Biomolecular, Assembly and Biomaterials, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel. and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Lab of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Kogikoski S, Khanra S, Alves WA, Guha S. SERS active self-assembled diphenylalanine micro/nanostructures: A combined experimental and theoretical investigation. J Chem Phys 2018; 147:084703. [PMID: 28863534 DOI: 10.1063/1.4990828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Enhancing Raman signatures of molecules by self-assembled metal nanoparticles, nanolithography patterning, or by designing plasmonic nanostructures is widely used for detection of low abundance biological systems. Self-assembled peptide nanostructures provide a natural template for tethering Au and Ag nanoparticles due to its fractal surface. Here, we show the use of L,L-diphenylalanine micro-nanostructures (FF-MNSs) for the organization of Ag and Au nanoparticles (Nps) and its potential as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-active substrates. The FF-MNSs undergo an irreversible phase transition from hexagonally packed (hex) micro-nanotubes to an orthorhombic (ort) structure at ∼150 °C. The metal Nps form chains on hex FF-MNSs as inferred from transmission electron microscopy images and a uniform non-aggregated distribution in the ort phase. The high luminescence from the ort FF-MNS phase precludes SERS measurements with AgNps. The calculated Raman spectra using density-functional theory shows a higher intensity from rhodamine 6G (R6G) molecule in the presence of an Ag atom bound to ort FF compared with hex FF. The SERS spectra obtained from R6G bound to FF-MNSs with AuNps clearly show a higher enhancement for the ort phase compared with hex FF, corroborating our theoretical calculations. Our results indicate that FF-MNSs both in the hex and ort phases can be used as substrates for the SERS analysis with different metal nanoparticles, opening up a novel class of optically active bio-based substrates.
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- Sergio Kogikoski
- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, 09210-580 Santo André, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, 09210-580 Santo André, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Gan Z, Xu H. Photoluminescence of Diphenylalanine Peptide Nano/Microstructures: From Mechanisms to Applications. Macromol Rapid Commun 2017; 38. [DOI: 10.1002/marc.201700370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Zhixing Gan
- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology of Jiangsu Province; School of Physics and Technology; Nanjing Normal University; Nanjing 210023 China
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- Faculty of Science; Ningbo University; Ningbo 315211 China
- Advanced Light Microscopy; Royal Institute of Technology; Science for Life Laboratory; Solna SE-17121 Sweden
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Mayans E, Casanovas J, Gil AM, Jiménez AI, Cativiela C, Puiggalí J, Alemán C. Diversity and Hierarchy in Supramolecular Assemblies of Triphenylalanine: From Laminated Helical Ribbons to Toroids. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:4036-4048. [PMID: 28374591 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Microstructures from small phenylalanine-based peptides have attracted great attention lately because these compounds are considered to be a new class of tunable materials. In spite of the extensive studies on uncapped diphenylalanine and tetraphenylalanine peptides, studies on the self-assembly of uncapped triphenylananine (FFF) are very scarce and nonsystematic. In this work, we demonstrate that FFF assemblies can organize in a wide number of well-defined supramolecular structures, which include laminated helical-ribbons, leaflike dendrimers, doughnut-, needle-, and flower-shapes. These organizations are produced by the attractive or repulsive interactions between already formed assemblies and therefore can be controlled through the choice of solvents used as the incubation medium. Thus, the formation of the desired supramolecular structures is regulated through the protonation/deprotonation of the terminal groups, the polarity of the incubation medium, which affects both peptide···solvent interactions and the cavity solvation energy (i.e., solvent···solvent interactions), and the steric interactions between own assemblies that act as building blocks. Finally, the β-sheet disposition in the latter structural motifs has been examined using both theoretical calculations and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Results indicate that FFF molecules can adopt both parallel and antiparallel β-sheets. However, the former one is the most energetically favored because of the formation of π-π stacking interactions between the aromatic rings of hydrogen-bonded strands.
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- Enric Mayans
- Departament d'Enginyeria Química, EEBE, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Edifici I.2, C/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
- Research Center for Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , C/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química, Escola Politècnica Superior, Universitat de Lleida , c/Jaume II no. 69, Lleida E-25001, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Instituto de Síntesis Quimica y Catalisis Homogenea (ISQCH), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC , 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Instituto de Síntesis Quimica y Catalisis Homogenea (ISQCH), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC , 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Instituto de Síntesis Quimica y Catalisis Homogenea (ISQCH), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC , 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Departament d'Enginyeria Química, EEBE, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Edifici I.2, C/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
- Research Center for Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , C/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament d'Enginyeria Química, EEBE, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Edifici I.2, C/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
- Research Center for Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , C/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
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Ziganshin MA, Safiullina AS, Ziganshina SA, Gerasimov AV, Gorbatchuk VV. Non-zeolitic properties of the dipeptide l-leucyl–l-leucine as a result of the specific nanostructure formation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:13788-13797. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01393k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Non-zeolitic sorption properties of l-leucyl–l-leucine which results from a specific self-organization of the dipeptide into different micro- and nanostructures may be used for the separation of mixtures of organic compounds.
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- Marat A. Ziganshin
- A. M. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry
- Kazan Federal University
- Kazan, 420008
- Russia
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- A. M. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry
- Kazan Federal University
- Kazan, 420008
- Russia
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- Kazan Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute of the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Kazan, 420029
- Russia
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- A. M. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry
- Kazan Federal University
- Kazan, 420008
- Russia
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Wang J, Liu K, Xing R, Yan X. Peptide self-assembly: thermodynamics and kinetics. Chem Soc Rev 2016; 45:5589-5604. [PMID: 27487936 DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00176a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 626] [Impact Index Per Article: 78.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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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, biomedicine and nanotechnology. Peptides, consisting of amino acids, are among the most popular building blocks and programmable molecular motifs. Nanostructures and materials assembled using peptides exhibit important potential for green-life new technology and biomedical applications mostly because of their bio-friendliness and reversibility. The formation of these ordered nanostructures pertains to the synergistic effect of various intermolecular non-covalent interactions, including hydrogen-bonding, π-π stacking, electrostatic, hydrophobic, and van der Waals interactions. Therefore, the self-assembly process is mainly driven by thermodynamics; however, kinetics is also a critical factor in structural modulation and function integration. In this review, we focus on the influence of thermodynamic and kinetic factors on structural assembly and regulation based on different types of peptide building blocks, including aromatic dipeptides, amphiphilic peptides, polypeptides, and amyloid-relevant peptides.
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- Juan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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Affiliation(s)
- Ehud Gazit
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Chen C, Liu K, Li J, Yan X. Functional architectures based on self-assembly of bio-inspired dipeptides: Structure modulation and its photoelectronic applications. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2015; 225:177-93. [PMID: 26365127 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2015.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Revised: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Getting inspiration from nature and further developing functional architectures provides an effective way to design innovative materials and systems. Among bio-inspired materials, dipeptides and its self-assembled architectures with functionalities have recently been the subject of intensive studies. However, there is still a great challenge to explore its applications likely due to the lack of effective adaptation of their self-assembled structures as well as a lack of understanding of the self-assembly mechanisms. In this context, taking diphenylalanine (FF, a core recognition motif for molecular self-assembly of the Alzheimer's β-amyloid polypeptides) as a model of bio-inspired dipeptides, recent strategies on modulation of dipeptide-based architectures were introduced with regard to both covalent (architectures modulation by coupling functional groups) and non-covalent ways (controlled architectures by different assembly pathways). Then, applications are highlighted in some newly emerging fields of innovative photoelectronic devices and materials, such as artificial photosynthetic systems for renewable solar energy storage and renewable optical waveguiding materials for optoelectronic devices. At last, the challenges and future perspectives of these bio-inspired dipeptides are also addressed.
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- Chengjun Chen
- National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Center for Mesoscience, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Lab of Colloid and Interface Science, Center for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Center for Mesoscience, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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Bera S, Ambast DKS, Pal B, Haldar D. Assembly, growth and nonlinear thermo-optical properties of nitropeptides. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:16983-90. [PMID: 26061359 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02218e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The molecular self-assembly, growth and nonlinear thermo-optical properties of three synthetic aromatic–aliphatic hybrid nitropeptides have been investigated. The X-ray crystallography of nitropeptide 2 containing a glutamic acid moiety shows that the peptide adopts a dimeric structure using intermolecular hydrogen bonding as well as face to face π–π stacking interactions. Moreover, nitropeptide 2 exhibits nonlocal nonlinear optical properties. When a Gaussian laser beam passes through nitropeptide 2, the peptide shows several concentric rings due to spatial self-phase modulation (SSPM). However, the homologous peptide 1 containing an aspartic acid moiety and peptide 3 containing an achiral α-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) moiety adopt sheet-like structures and have no self-phase modulation effect. The report describes the thermo-optical properties consistent with assumption and calculation and is promising for their applications in nonlinear optical modulation devices.
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- Santu Bera
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741246, India.
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