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SUBMITTER: Lin YA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903424 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Yi-An YA Ou Yu-Chuan YC Cheetham Andrew G AG Cui Honggang H
ACS macro letters 20131201 12
We report here the design and synthesis of an ABC miktoarm star peptide connecting through a lysine junction a short peptide sequence and two hydrophobic but immiscible blocks (a hydrocarbon and a fluorocarbon). The designed molecule can self-assemble into one-dimensional nanostructures with a great diversity of kinetically evolving morphologies in aqueous solution, while molecules that contain only one of the two hydrophobic blocks form structurally similar filaments. We believe the rich assemb ...[more]