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Liu L, Meng H, Chai Y, Chen X, Xu J, Liu X, Liu W, Guldi DM, Zhu Y. Enhancing Built-in Electric Fields for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Encapsulating C 60 Fullerene into Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202217897. [PMID: 36639933 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202217897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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High-efficiency photocatalysts based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are often limited by poor charge separation and slow charge-transfer kinetics. Herein, a novel MOF photocatalyst is successfully constructed by encapsulating C60 into a nano-sized zirconium-based MOF, NU-901. By virtue of host-guest interactions and uneven charge distribution, a substantial electrostatic potential difference is set-up in C60 @NU-901. The direct consequence is a robust built-in electric field, which tends to be 10.7 times higher in C60 @NU-901 than that found in NU-901. In the catalyst, photogenerated charge carriers are efficiently separated and transported to the surface. For example, photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaches 22.3 mmol g-1 h-1 for C60 @NU-901, which is among the highest values for MOFs. Our concept of enhancing charge separation by harnessing host-guest interactions constitutes a promising strategy to design photocatalysts for efficient solar-to-chemical energy conversion.
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- Liping Liu
- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center of Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center of Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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Batra R, Loeffler TD, Chan H, Srinivasan S, Cui H, Korendovych IV, Nanda V, Palmer LC, Solomon LA, Fry HC, Sankaranarayanan SKRS. Machine learning overcomes human bias in the discovery of self-assembling peptides. Nat Chem 2022; 14:1427-1435. [PMID: 36316409 PMCID: PMC9844539 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01055-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Peptide materials have a wide array of functions, from tissue engineering and surface coatings to catalysis and sensing. Tuning the sequence of amino acids that comprise the peptide modulates peptide functionality, but a small increase in sequence length leads to a dramatic increase in the number of peptide candidates. Traditionally, peptide design is guided by human expertise and intuition and typically yields fewer than ten peptides per study, but these approaches are not easily scalable and are susceptible to human bias. Here we introduce a machine learning workflow-AI-expert-that combines Monte Carlo tree search and random forest with molecular dynamics simulations to develop a fully autonomous computational search engine to discover peptide sequences with high potential for self-assembly. We demonstrate the efficacy of the AI-expert to efficiently search large spaces of tripeptides and pentapeptides. The predictability of AI-expert performs on par or better than our human experts and suggests several non-intuitive sequences with high self-assembly propensity, outlining its potential to overcome human bias and accelerate peptide discovery.
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- Rohit Batra
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Nandy A, Mukherjee S. A Bioinspired Light Harvesting System in Aqueous Medium: Highly Efficient Energy Transfer through the Self Assembly of β-Sheet Nanostructures of Poly-d-Lysine. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:6701-6710. [PMID: 35848986 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Nature has beautifully assembled its light harvesting pigments within protein scaffolds, which ensures a very high energy transfer. Designing a highly efficient artificial bioinspired light harvesting system (LHS) thus requires the nanoscale spatial orientation and electronic control of the associated chromophores. Although DNA has been used as a scaffold to organize chromophores, proteins or polypeptides, however, are very rarely explored. Here, we have developed a highly efficient, artificial, bioinspired LHS using polypeptide (poly-d-lysine, PDL) nanostructures making use of their β-sheet structure in an aqueous alkaline medium. The chromophores used herein are compatible for an energy transfer process and are nonfluorescent in an aqueous medium but exhibit high fluorescence intensity when bound to the nanostructure of PDL. The close proximity of the chromophores results in an energy transfer efficiency of ∼92% besides generating white light emission at a particular molar ratio between the chromophores.
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- Atanu Nandy
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 462 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 462 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Lebedeva NS, Koifman OI. Supramolecular Systems Based on Macrocyclic Compounds with Proteins: Application Prospects. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1068162022010071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Pandya R, Chen RYS, Gu Q, Sung J, Schnedermann C, Ojambati OS, Chikkaraddy R, Gorman J, Jacucci G, Onelli OD, Willhammar T, Johnstone DN, Collins SM, Midgley PA, Auras F, Baikie T, Jayaprakash R, Mathevet F, Soucek R, Du M, Alvertis AM, Ashoka A, Vignolini S, Lidzey DG, Baumberg JJ, Friend RH, Barisien T, Legrand L, Chin AW, Yuen-Zhou J, Saikin SK, Kukura P, Musser AJ, Rao A. Microcavity-like exciton-polaritons can be the primary photoexcitation in bare organic semiconductors. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6519. [PMID: 34764252 PMCID: PMC8585971 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26617-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Strong-coupling between excitons and confined photonic modes can lead to the formation of new quasi-particles termed exciton-polaritons which can display a range of interesting properties such as super-fluidity, ultrafast transport and Bose-Einstein condensation. Strong-coupling typically occurs when an excitonic material is confided in a dielectric or plasmonic microcavity. Here, we show polaritons can form at room temperature in a range of chemically diverse, organic semiconductor thin films, despite the absence of an external cavity. We find evidence of strong light-matter coupling via angle-dependent peak splittings in the reflectivity spectra of the materials and emission from collective polariton states. We additionally show exciton-polaritons are the primary photoexcitation in these organic materials by directly imaging their ultrafast (5 × 106 m s-1), ultralong (~270 nm) transport. These results open-up new fundamental physics and could enable a new generation of organic optoelectronic and light harvesting devices based on cavity-free exciton-polaritons.
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- Raj Pandya
- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW UK
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- grid.10548.380000 0004 1936 9377Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0FS Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0FS Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0FS Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.11835.3e0000 0004 1936 9262Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, UK
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- grid.462019.80000 0004 0370 0168Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire (IPCM), Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- grid.462844.80000 0001 2308 1657Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- grid.266100.30000 0001 2107 4242Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW UK
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- grid.11835.3e0000 0004 1936 9262Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK
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- grid.462844.80000 0001 2308 1657Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- grid.462844.80000 0001 2308 1657Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- grid.462844.80000 0001 2308 1657Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- grid.266100.30000 0001 2107 4242Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA ,grid.510678.dKebotix Inc., 501 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- grid.4991.50000 0004 1936 8948Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ UK
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- grid.5386.8000000041936877XDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK.
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Fry HC, Peters BL, Ferguson AL. Pushing and Pulling: A Dual pH Trigger Controlled by Varying the Alkyl Tail Length in Heme Coordinating Peptide Amphiphiles. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:1317-1330. [PMID: 33529038 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c07713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Some organisms in nature that undergo anaerobic respiration utilize 1D nanoscale arrays of densely packed cytochromes containing the molecule heme. The assemblies can be mimicked with 1D nanoscale fibrils composed of peptide amphiphiles designed to coordinate heme in dense arrays. To create such materials and assemblies, it is critical to understand the assembly process and what controls the various aspects of hierarchical assembly. MD simulations suggest that shorter alkyl chains on the peptide lead to more dynamic structures than the peptides with longer chains that yield kinetically trapped states. The hydration parameters manifest themselves experimentally through the observation of a dual pH trigger, which controls the peptide assembly rate, the heme binding affinity, and heme organization kinetics. Great strides in understanding the relative complexity of the self-assembly process in relation to incorporating a functional moiety like heme opens up many possibilities in developing abiotic assemblies for bioelectronic devices and assemblies.
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- H Christopher Fry
- Center for Nansocale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave. Lemont, Argonne, Illinois 60712, United States
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave. Lemont, Argonne, Illinois 60712, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Dognini P, Coxon CR, Alves WA, Giuntini F. Peptide-Tetrapyrrole Supramolecular Self-Assemblies: State of the Art. Molecules 2021; 26:693. [PMID: 33525730 PMCID: PMC7865683 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26030693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The covalent and noncovalent association of self-assembling peptides and tetrapyrroles was explored as a way to generate systems that mimic Nature's functional supramolecular structures. Different types of peptides spontaneously assemble with porphyrins, phthalocyanines, or corroles to give long-range ordered architectures, whose structure is determined by the features of both components. The regular morphology and ordered molecular arrangement of these systems enhance the photochemical properties of embedded chromophores, allowing applications as photo-catalysts, antennas for dye-sensitized solar cells, biosensors, and agents for light-triggered therapies. Chemical modifications of peptide and tetrapyrrole structures and control over the assembly process can steer the organization and influence the properties of the resulting system. Here we provide a review of the field, focusing on the assemblies obtained from different classes of self-assembling peptides with tetrapyrroles, their morphologies and their applications as innovative functional materials.
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- Paolo Dognini
- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Byrom Street Campus, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK;
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh AH14 4AS, UK;
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP 09210-380, Brazil;
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Byrom Street Campus, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK;
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Zhou T, Huang X, Mi Z, Zhu Y, Wang R, Wang C, Guo J. Multivariate covalent organic frameworks boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Polym Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1py00247c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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High-quality multivariate COFs were synthesized with an aminocatalytic solvothermal method. They can achieve higher photocatalytic H2 evolution rates than the parent homo-COFs by adjusting the benzothiadiazole-containing components.
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- Ting Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- Fudan University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- Fudan University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- Fudan University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- Fudan University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- Fudan University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- Fudan University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
- Department of Macromolecular Science
- Fudan University
- Shanghai 200433
- China
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Fry HC, Solomon LA, Diroll BT, Liu Y, Gosztola DJ, Cohn HM. Morphological Control of Chromophore Spin State in Zinc Porphyrin–Peptide Assemblies. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 142:233-241. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- H. Christopher Fry
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois60439, United States
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Manandhar A, Chakraborty K, Tang PK, Kang M, Zhang P, Cui H, Loverde SM. Rational Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Supramolecular Anticancer Nanotubes. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:10582-10593. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b07417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Anjela Manandhar
- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, New York 10314, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, New York 10314, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Center of Pharmaceutics, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
- Department of Oncology and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, New York 10314, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York 10016, United States
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Solomon LA, Wood AR, Sykes ME, Diroll BT, Wiederrecht GP, Schaller RD, Fry HC. Microenvironment control of porphyrin binding, organization, and function in peptide nanofiber assemblies. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:5412-5421. [PMID: 30855041 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr09556f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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To take peptide materials from predominantly structural to functional assemblies, variations in cofactor binding sites must be engineered and controlled. Here, we have employed the peptide sequence c16-AHX3K3-CO2H where X3 represents the aliphatic structural component of the peptide design that dictates β-sheet formation and upon self-assembly yields a change in the overall microenvironment surrounding the Zn protoporphyrin IX ((PPIX)Zn) binding site. All peptides studied yield β-sheet rich nanofibers highlighting the materials' resiliency to amino acid substitution. We highlight that the (PPIX)Zn binding constants correlate strongly with amino acid side chain volume, where X = L or I yields the lowest dissociation constant values (KD). The resulting microenvironment highlights the materials' ability to control interchromophore electronic interactions such that slip-stacked cofacial arrangements are observed via exciton splitting in UV/visible and circular dichroism spectroscopy. Steady state and time-resolved photoluminescence suggests that greater interchromophore packing yields larger excimer populations and corresponding longer excimer association lifetimes (τA) which directly translates to shorter exciton diffusion lengths. In comparison to synthetic porphyrin molecular assemblies, this work demonstrates the ability to employ the peptide assembly to modulate the degree of cofactor arrangement, extent of excimer formation, and the exciton hopping rates all while in a platform amenable for producing polymer-like materials.
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- Lee A Solomon
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
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Amit M, Yuran S, Gazit E, Reches M, Ashkenasy N. Tailor-Made Functional Peptide Self-Assembling Nanostructures. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2018; 30:e1707083. [PMID: 29989255 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201707083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Revised: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Noncovalent interactions are the main driving force in the folding of proteins into a 3D functional structure. Motivated by the wish to reveal the mechanisms of the associated self-assembly processes, scientists are focusing on studying self-assembly processes of short protein segments (peptides). While this research has led to major advances in the understanding of biological and pathological process, only in recent years has the applicative potential of the resulting self-assembled peptide assemblies started to be explored. Here, major advances in the development of biomimetic supramolecular peptide assemblies as coatings, gels, and as electroactive materials, are highlighted. The guiding lines for the design of helical peptides, β strand peptides, as well as surface binding monolayer-forming peptides that can be utilized for a specific function are highlighted. Examples of their applications in diverse immerging applications in, e.g., ecology, biomedicine, and electronics, are described. Taking into account that, in addition to extraordinary design flexibility, these materials are naturally biocompatible and ecologically friendly, and their production is cost effective, the emergence of devices incorporating these biomimetic materials in the market is envisioned in the near future.
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- Moran Amit
- Department of Materials Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0407, USA
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- Institute of Chemistry and The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Institute of Chemistry and The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Department of Materials Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
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Shirley DJ, Chrom CL, Richards EA, Carone BR, Caputo GA. Antimicrobial activity of a porphyrin binding peptide. Pept Sci (Hoboken) 2018; 110. [PMID: 30637367 DOI: 10.1002/pep2.24074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Amphiphilic alpha-helices are common motifs used in numerous biological systems including membrane channels/pores and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), and binding proteins, and a variety of synthetic biomaterials. Previously, an amphiphilic peptide with lysine-containing motifs was shown to reversibly bind the anionic porphyrin meso-Tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (TPPS4 2-) and promote the formation of excitonically coupled conductive J-aggregates. The work presented here focuses on the use of this amphiphilic peptide and derivatives as a potential antimicrobial agent. AMPs are naturally occurring components of the innate immune system, which selectively target and kill bacteria. Sequence derivatives were synthesized in which the position of the Trp, used as a fluorescence reporter, was changed. Additional variants were synthesized where the hydrophobic amino acids were replaced with Ala to reduce net hydrophobicity or where the cationic Lys residues were replaced with diaminopropionic acid (Dap). All peptide sequences retained the ability to bind TPPS4 2- and promote the formation of J-aggregates. The peptides all exhibited a preference for binding anionic lipid vesicles compared to zwitterionic bilayers. The Trp position did not impact antimicrobial activity, but the substituted peptides exhibited markedly lower efficacy. The Dap-containing peptide was only active against E. coli and P. aeruginosa, while the Ala-substituted peptide was inactive at the concentrations tested. This trend was also evident in bacterial membrane permeabilization. The results indicate that the amphiphilic porphyrin binding peptides can also be used as antimicrobial peptides. The cationic nature is a driver in binding to lipid bilayers, but the overall hydrophobicity is important for antimicrobial activity and membrane disruption.
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Affiliation(s)
- David J Shirley
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028
| | - Christina L Chrom
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028
| | - Elizabeth A Richards
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028.,Bantivoglio Honors College, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028
| | - Benjamin R Carone
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028
| | - Gregory A Caputo
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028.,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028
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