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SUBMITTER: Pandit G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6045401 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pandit Gopal G Roy Karabi K Agarwal Umang U Chatterjee Sunanda S
ACS omega 20180315 3
We report the mechanism of the concentration-dependent self-assembly of a tetrapeptide. Peptide Boc-Trp-Leu-Trp-Leu-OMe self-assembles to form discrete nanospheres at a low concentration. Tryptophan side chains point outwards of the nanospheres while leucine side chains point towards the core of the nanospheres. The nanospheres fuse together to become microspheres with the increase in the peptide concentration. At higher concentrations of the peptide, the microspheres start clustering. This is s ...[more]