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To examine how varying the hydrophobic glycine tail length in surfactant-like peptides affects their self-assembly into nanostructures in aqueous solution.

May 30, 2002Nano Letters

Self-assembly of Surfactant-like Peptides with Variable Glycine Tails to Form Nanotubes and Nanovesicles

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SSSteve SantosoLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory WHWonmuk HwangKorea Institute for Advanced Study HHHyman HartmanMassachusetts Institute of Technology

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Experimental study demonstrates self-assembly of glycine-tail peptides into nanotubes and nanovesicles, suggesting utility for nanodevices and prebiotic evolution research.

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To examine how varying the hydrophobic glycine tail length in surfactant-like peptides affects their self-assembly into nanostructures in aqueous solution.
Synthesized surfactant-like peptide monomers featuring 4 to 10 hydrophobic glycine tail residues paired with hydrophilic aspartic acid heads.
Characterized the assembly of peptide nanostructures formed in water at neutral pH.
Peptide monomers assembled spontaneously into nanotubes and nanovesicles in neutral water.
Polydispersity of the assembled nanostructures increased as the glycine tail length expanded from 4 to 10 residues.

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Santoso et al. (2002) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a030b96daa0ebdf9f9e4489 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl025563i

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Experimental study demonstrates self-assembly of glycine-tail peptides into nanotubes and nanovesicles, suggesting utility for nanodevices and prebiotic evolution research.

Self-assembly of Surfactant-like Peptides with Variable Glycine Tails to Form Nanotubes and Nanovesicles

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Self-assembly of Surfactant-like Peptides with Variable Glycine Tails to Form Nanotubes and Nanovesicles

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