Left-Handed Helical Ribbon Intermediates in the Self-Assembly of a -Sheet Peptide Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report the observation of intermediate structures in the self-assembly of the peptide KFE8 (FKFEFKFE), designed with alternating polar and nonpolar amino acids. Self-assembly was followed over time using atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and circular dichroism (CD). Molecular dynamics simulations suggest that these intermediates are left-handed double helical -sheets. These findings have implications in the study of -sheet fibril formation, and in the molecular design of materials.

published proceedings

  • Nano Letters

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Marini, D. M., Hwang, W., Lauffenburger, D. A., Zhang, S., & Kamm, R. D.

citation count

  • 276

complete list of authors

  • Marini, Davide M||Hwang, Wonmuk||Lauffenburger, Douglas A||Zhang, Shuguang||Kamm, Roger D

publication date

  • April 2002