Issue 7, 2008

Nanostructures of β-sheet peptides: steps towards bioactive functional materials

Abstract

The design and construction of synthetic self-assembled nanostructures is, in a large part, inspired from elaborate nanostructures in biological systems. If we look at it from another angle, the self-assembled nanostructures are excellent scaffolds for exploring and modulating biological phenomena when they are suitably functionalized with bioactive molecules. Of the many types of molecular building blocks for self-assembly, peptide-based building blocks have the advantage in that their constituent amino acids are biocompatible and the sequence space of peptide chains is vast. This contribution highlights an emerging approach to the biomaterial application of artificially designed and functional β-sheet peptide self-assemblies.

Graphical abstract: Nanostructures of β-sheet peptides: steps towards bioactive functional materials

Article information

Article type
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Submitted
23 Jul 2007
Accepted
18 Oct 2007
First published
06 Nov 2007

J. Mater. Chem., 2008,18, 723-727

Nanostructures of β-sheet peptides: steps towards bioactive functional materials

Y. Lim and M. Lee, J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 723 DOI: 10.1039/B711188F

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