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Giuri D, Cenciarelli F, Tomasini C. Low-molecular-weight gels from amino acid and peptide derivatives for controlled release and delivery. J Pept Sci 2024:e3643. [PMID: 39010663 DOI: 10.1002/psc.3643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/26/2024] [Indexed: 07/17/2024]
Abstract
Low-molecular-weight (LMW) gelators are a versatile class of compounds able to self-assemble and to form supramolecular materials, such as gels. The use of LMW peptides to produce these gels shows many advantages, because of their wide structure tunability, the low-cost and effective synthesis, and the in vivo biocompatibility and biodegradability, which makes them optimal candidates for release and delivery applications. In addition, in these materials, the binding of the hosts may occur through a variety of noncovalent interactions, which are also the main factors responsible for the self-assembly of the gelators, and through specific interactions with the fibers or the pores of the gel matrix. This review aims to report LMW gels based on amino acid and peptide derivatives used for the release of many different species (drugs, fragrances, dyes, proteins, and cells) with a focus on the possible strategies to incorporate the cargo in these materials, and to demonstrate how versatile these self-assembled materials are in several applications.
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- Demetra Giuri
- Dipartimento di Chimica Giacomo Ciamician, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Giacomo Ciamician, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Giacomo Ciamician, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Giménez-Hernández B, Falomir E, Escuder B. Effect of Hyaluronic Acid on the Self-Assembly of a Dipeptide-Based Supramolecular Gel. Chembiochem 2023; 24:e202300438. [PMID: 37782055 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Revised: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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The combination of polymers and low molecular weight (LMW) compounds is a powerful approach to prepare new supramolecular materials. Here we prepare two-component hydrogels made by a well-known and biologically active polymer, hyaluronic acid (HA), and a dipeptide-based supramolecular gelator. We undertake a detailed study of materials with different compositions including macroscopic (hydrogel formation, rheology) and micro/nanoscopic characterization (electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction). We observe that the two components mutually benefit in the new materials: a minimum amount of HA helps to reduce the polymorphism of the LMW network leading to reproducible hydrogels with improved mechanical properties; the LMW component network holds HA without the need for an irreversible covalent crosslinking. These materials have a great potential for biomedical application as, for instance, extracellular matrix mimetics for cell growth. As a proof of concept, we have observed that this material is effective for cell growth in suspension and avoids cell sedimentation even in the presence of competing cell-adhesive surfaces. This may be of interest to advanced cell delivery techniques.
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Universitat Jaume I, 12071, Castelló, Spain
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- Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, 12071, Castelló, Spain
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Hollingsworth WR, Johnston AR, Jia M, Luo L, Park Y, Meier W, Palmer J, Rolandi M, Ayzner AL. Influence of Backbone Regioregularity on the Optoelectronic and Mechanical Response of Conjugated Polyelectrolyte-Based Hydrogels. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:2277-2285. [PMID: 36882905 PMCID: PMC10026064 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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The ability to form robust, optoelectronically responsive, and mechanically tunable hydrogels using facile processing is desirable for sensing, biomedical, and light-harvesting applications. We demonstrate that such a hydrogel can be formed using aqueous complexation between one conjugated and one nonconjugated polyelectrolyte. We show that the rheological properties of the hydrogel can be tuned using the regioregularity of the conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) backbone, leading to significantly different mesoscale gel morphologies. We also find that the exciton dynamics in the long-time limit reflect differences in the underlying electronic connectivity of the hydrogels as a function CPE regioregularity. The influence of excess small ions on the hydrogel structure and the exciton dynamics similarly depends on the regioregularity in a significant way. Finally, electrical impedance measurements lead us to infer that these hydrogels can act as mixed ionic/electronic conductors. We believe that such gels possess an attractive combination of physical-chemical properties that can be leveraged in multiple applications.
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- William R Hollingsworth
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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Khan F, Das S. Modified Low Molecular Weight Pure and Engineered Gels: A Review of Strategies towards Their Development. ChemistrySelect 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202200205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Finaz Khan
- Department of Chemistry Amity Institute of Applied Sciences Amity University Kolkata Major Arterial Road, Action Area II, Kadampukur Village, Rajarhat, Newtown West Bengal 700135 India
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- Department of Chemistry Amity Institute of Applied Sciences Amity University Kolkata Major Arterial Road, Action Area II, Kadampukur Village, Rajarhat, Newtown West Bengal 700135 India
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Giraud T, Bouguet-Bonnet S, Stébé MJ, Richaudeau L, Pickaert G, Averlant-Petit MC, Stefan L. Co-assembly and multicomponent hydrogel formation upon mixing nucleobase-containing peptides. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:10566-10578. [PMID: 34100504 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr02417e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Peptide-based hydrogels are physical gels formed through specific supramolecular self-assembling processes, leading to ordered nanostructures which constitute the water entrapping scaffold of the soft material. Thanks to the inherent properties of peptides, these hydrogels are highly considered in the biomedical domain and open new horizons in terms of application in advanced therapies and biotechnologies. The use of one, and only one, native peptide to formulate a gel is by far the most reported approach to design such materials, but suffers from several limitations, including in terms of mechanical properties. To improve peptide-based hydrogels interest and give rise to innovative properties, several strategies have been proposed in the recent years, and the development of multicomponent peptide-based hydrogels appears as a promising and relevant strategy. Indeed, mixing two or more compounds to develop new materials is a much-used approach that has proven its effectiveness in a wide variety of domains, including polymers, composites and alloys. While still limited to a handful of examples, we would like to report herein on the formulation and the comprehensive study of multicomponent hybrid DNA-nucleobase/peptide-based hydrogels using a multiscale approach based on a large panel of analytical techniques (i.e., rheometry, proton relaxometry, SAXS, electronic microscopy, infrared, circular dichroism, fluorescence, Thioflavin T assays). Among the six multicomponent systems studied, the results highlight the synergistic role of the presence of the two complementary DNA-nucleobases (i.e., adenine/thymine and guanine/cytosine) on the co-assembling process from structural (e.g., morphology of the nanoobjects) to physicochemical (e.g., kinetics of formation, fluorescence properties) and mechanical (e.g., stiffness, resistance to external stress) properties. All the data confirm the relevance of the multicomponent peptide-based approach in the design of innovative hydrogels and bring another brick in the wall of the understanding of these complex and promising systems.
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- Tristan Giraud
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPM, F-54000 Nancy, France.
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPM, F-54000 Nancy, France.
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Giraud T, Bouguet-Bonnet S, Marchal P, Pickaert G, Averlant-Petit MC, Stefan L. Improving and fine-tuning the properties of peptide-based hydrogels via incorporation of peptide nucleic acids. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:19905-19917. [PMID: 32985645 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr03483e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Peptide self-assemblies have attracted intense research interest over the last few decades thanks to their implications in key biological processes (e.g., amyloid formation) and their use in biotechnological and (bio)material fields. In particular, peptide-based hydrogels have been highly considered as high potential supramolecular materials in the biomedical domain and open new horizons in terms of applications. To further understand their self-assembly mechanisms and to optimize their properties, several strategies have been proposed with the modification of the constituting amino acid chains via, per se, the introduction of d-amino acids, halogenated amino acids, pseudopeptide bonds, or other chemical moieties. In this context, we report herein on the incorporation of DNA-nucleobases into their peptide nucleic acid (PNA) forms to develop a new series of hybrid nucleopeptides. Thus, depending on the nature of the nucleobase (i.e., thymine, cytosine, adenine or guanine), the physicochemical and mechanical properties of the resulting hydrogels can be significantly improved and fine-tuned with, for instance, drastic enhancements of both the gel stiffness (up to 70-fold) and the gel resistance to external stress (up to 40-fold), and the generation of both thermo-reversible and uncommon red-edge excitation shift (REES) properties. To decipher the actual role of each PNA moiety in the self-assembly processes, the induced modifications from the molecular to the macroscopic scales are studied thanks to the multiscale approach based on a large panel of analytical techniques (i.e., rheology, NMR relaxometry, TEM, thioflavin T assays, FTIR, CD, fluorescence, NMR chemical shift index). Thus, such a strategy provides new opportunities to adapt and fit hydrogel properties to the intended ones and pushes back the limits of supramolecular materials.
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- Tristan Giraud
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPM, F-54000 Nancy, France.
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Gayen K, Basu K, Nandi N, Sundar Das K, Hermida-Merino D, Hamley IW, Banerjee A. A Self-Assembled Peptide-Appended Naphthalene Diimide: A Fluorescent Switch for Sensing Acid and Base Vapors. Chempluschem 2020; 84:1673-1680. [PMID: 31943879 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A histidine-containing bola-amphiphilic molecule (NDIP) containing a peptide-appended naphthalenediimide (NDI) forms fluorescent hydrogels in phosphate buffer and organogels with benzenoid solvents. These gels were characterized by several spectroscopic and microscopic techniques including FT-IR, HR-TEM, powder X-ray diffraction and small-angle X-ray scattering, UV-Vis and fluorescence studies. The gelator molecule exhibits no significant fluorescence in the xerogel state, while it shows a significant fluorescence (bright cyan) in the presence of volatile organic/inorganic acid vapors; this cyan color vanishes in presence of base (ammonia vapors). A reusable paper-strip-based method based on this self-assembled fluorescent material can be used to easily detect hazardous volatile acid and base vapors with the naked eye.
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- Kousik Gayen
- School of Biological Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata-, 7000032, India
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- School of Biological Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata-, 7000032, India
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- School of Biological Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata-, 7000032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata-, 7000032, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AD, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata-, 7000032, India
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Mushtaq I, Akhter Z, Shah FU. Tunable Self-Assembled Nanostructures of Electroactive PEGylated Tetra(Aniline) Based ABA Triblock Structures in Aqueous Medium. Front Chem 2019; 7:518. [PMID: 31403042 PMCID: PMC6669400 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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PEGylated tetra(aniline) ABA triblock structure PEG-TANI-PEG (2) consisting of tetra(aniline) (TANI) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) was synthesized by coupling the tosylated-PEG to boc-protected NH2/NH2 TANI (1) through a simple nucleophilic substitution reaction. Deprotection of 2 resulted in a leucoemeraldine base state of TANI (2-LEB), which was oxidized to stable emeraldine base (2-EB) state. 2-EB was doped with 1 M HCl to emeraldine salt (2-ES) state. FTIR, 1H and 13C NMR and UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy, and MS (ESI) was used for structural characterization. The synthesized triblock structure exhibited good electroactivity as confirmed by CV and UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy. Self-assembling of the triblock structure in aqueous medium was assessed by DLS, TEM, and SEM. Spherical aggregates were observed with variable sizes depicting the effect of concentration and oxidation of 2-LEB. Further, the aggregates showed acid/base sensitivity as evaluated by doping and dedoping of 2-EB with 1 M HCl and 1 M NH4OH, respectively. Future applications in drug delivery and sensors are envisaged for such tunable self-assembled nanostructures in aqueous media.
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- Irrum Mushtaq
- Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Chemistry of Interfaces, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
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Li G, Li S, Sun J, Yuan Z, Song A, Hao J. Peptide-based hydrogels with tunable nanostructures for the controlled release of dyes. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2018.08.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Self-assembled peptide nanostructures have been increasingly exploited as functional materials for applications in biomedicine and energy. The emergent properties of these nanomaterials determine the applications for which they can be exploited. It has recently been appreciated that nanomaterials composed of multicomponent coassembled peptides often display unique emergent properties that have the potential to dramatically expand the functional utility of peptide-based materials. This review presents recent efforts in the development of multicomponent peptide assemblies. The discussion includes multicomponent assemblies derived from short low molecular weight peptides, peptide amphiphiles, coiled coil peptides, collagen, and β-sheet peptides. The design, structure, emergent properties, and applications for these multicomponent assemblies are presented in order to illustrate the potential of these formulations as sophisticated next-generation bio-inspired materials.
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- Danielle M Raymond
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0216, USA.
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Zhang CM, Qin SY, Cheng YJ, Zhang AQ. Construction of poly(dopamine) doped oligopeptide hydrogel. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra10363h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Incorporation of poly(dopamine) (PDA) into the native oligopeptide hydrogel not only improve the rigidity but also endow the hydrogel with efficient free radical scavenging ability.
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- Chen-Ming Zhang
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074
- P. R. China
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