Strategy for Designing Self-Assembling Peptides to Prepare Transparent Nanofiber Hydrogel at Neutral pH

This study examined the formation of nanofiber hydrogels at neutral pH for 16 types of peptides with different net charges, hydrophobicities, and degrees of polymerization. The peptides formed various hydrogels depending on the arrangement of charged amino acids in the antiparallel β-sheet structure...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hidenori Yokoi, Takatoshi Kinoshita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Nanomaterials
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/537262