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Chirality in peptide‐based materials: From chirality effects to potential applications
Author(s) -
Chen Zhonghui,
Chi Zhenguo,
Sun Yifeng,
Lv Ziyu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chirality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.43
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1520-636X
pISSN - 0899-0042
DOI - 10.1002/chir.23344
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , microscale chemistry , chemistry , nanotechnology , supramolecular chirality , biomolecule , supramolecular chemistry , peptide , chemical physics , materials science , organic chemistry , physics , molecule , biochemistry , chiral symmetry breaking , mathematics education , mathematics , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature with primary cellular functions that include construction of right‐/left‐handed helix and selective communications among diverse biomolecules. Of particularly intriguing are the chiral peptide‐based materials that can be deliberately designed to change physicochemistry properties via tuning peptide sequences. Critically, understanding their chiral effects are fundamental for the development of novel materials in chemistry and biomedicine fields. Here, we review recent researches on chirality in peptide‐based materials, summarizing relevant typical chiral effects towards recognition, amplification, and induction. Driven forces for the chiral discrimination in affinity interaction as well as the handedness preferences in supramolecular structure formation at both the macroscale and microscale are illustrated. The implementation of such chirality effects of artificial copolymers, assembled aggregates and their composites in the fields of bioseparation and bioenrichment, cell incubation, protein aggregation inhibitors, chiral smart gels, and bionic electro devices are also presented. At last, the challenges in these areas and possible directions are pointed out. The diversity of chiral roles in the origin of life and chirality design in different organic or composite systems as well as their applications in drug development and chirality detection in environmental protection are discussed.