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SUBMITTER: Diaferia C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8597081 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diaferia Carlo C Avitabile Concetta C Leone Marilisa M Gallo Enrico E Saviano Michele M Accardo Antonella A Romanelli Alessandra A
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20210831 57
Peptides and nucleic acids can self-assemble to give supramolecular structures that find application in different fields, ranging from the delivery of drugs to the obtainment of materials endowed with optical properties. Forces that stabilize the "suprastructures" typically are hydrogen bonds or aromatic interactions; in case of nucleic acids, Watson-Crick pairing drives self-assembly while, in case of peptides, backbone hydrogen bonds and interactions between aromatic side chains trigger the fo ...[more]