Issue 12, 2006
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Soft Matter

Self-assembly and applications of biomimetic and bioactive peptide-amphiphiles

Efrosini Kokkoli,*a   Anastasia Mardilovich,a   Alison Wedekind,a   Emilie L. Rexeisen,a   Ashish Garga  and  Jennifer A. Craigb  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
E-mail: kokkoli@cems.umn.edu

b Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Abstract

Peptide-amphiphiles are amphiphilic structures with a hydrophilic peptide headgroup that incorporates a bioactive sequence and has the potential to form distinct structures, and a hydrophobic tail that serves to align the headgroup, drive self-assembly, and induce secondary and tertiary conformations. In this paper we review the different self-assembled structures of peptide-amphiphiles that range from micelles and nanofibers, to patterned membranes. We also describe several examples where peptide-amphiphiles have found applications as soft bioactive materials for model studies of bioadhesion and characterization of different cellular phenomena, as well as scaffolds for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and targeted drug delivery.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B608929A
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
29 Jun 2006
Accepted
16 Aug 2006
First published
18 Oct 2006

Soft Matter, 2006,2, 1015-1024

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Self-assembly and applications of biomimetic and bioactive peptide-amphiphiles

E. Kokkoli, A. Mardilovich, A. Wedekind, E. L. Rexeisen, A. Garg and J. A. Craig, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 1015 DOI: 10.1039/B608929A

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