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Nanofibers Self‐assembled from Structural Complementary Borono‐decapeptides
Author(s) -
Chen ChangSheng,
Ji TianJiao,
Xu XiaoDing,
Zhang XianZheng,
Zhuo RenXi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.201000292
Subject(s) - nanofiber , supramolecular chemistry , dissolution , combinatorial chemistry , chemistry , materials science , polymer chemistry , molecule , nanotechnology , organic chemistry
A series of structural complementary decapeptides with phenyl boronic acid tails or borono‐decapeptides (BPs) were designed and synthesized for supramolecular self‐assembly. After dissolving these borono‐decapeptides in deionized (DI) water, well‐defined nanofibers were formed in BP1 (B(OH) 2 VEKELVKEKL‐OH) and BP3 (B(OH) 2 AELELARARL‐OH). It was found that the self‐assembled borono‐decapeptide BP1 and BP3 have a parallel β‐sheet conformation in the formed nanofibers. The strategy demonstrated here shows a great prospect in preparation of well‐ordered nanofibers via rationally designing the molecular structures of peptides.