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Rajarajeswari Muthusivarajan William J. Allen Ashok D. Pehere Konstantin V. Sokolov David Fuentes 《Journal of computational chemistry》2020,41(31):2634-2640
Designing peptide sequences that self-assemble into well-defined nanostructures can open a new venue for the development of novel drug carriers and molecular contrast agents. Current approaches are often based on a linear block-design of amphiphilic peptides where a hydrophilic peptide chain is terminated by a hydrophobic tail. Here, a new template for a self-assembling tetrapeptide (YXKX, Y = tyrosine, X = alkylated tyrosine, K = lysine) is proposed with two distinct sides relative to the peptide's backbone: alkylated hydrophobic residues on one side and hydrophilic residues on the other side. Using all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, the self-assembly pathway of the tetrapeptide is analyzed for two different concentrations. At both concentrations, tetrapeptides self-assembled into a nanosphere structure. The alkylated tyrosines initialize the self-assembly process via a strong hydrophobic effect and to reduce exposure to the aqueous solvent, they formed a hydrophobic core. The hydrophilic residues occupied the surface of the self-assembled nanosphere. Ordered arrangement of tetrapeptides within the nanosphere with the backbone hydrogen bonding led to a beta sheet formation. Alkyl chain length constrained the size and shape of the nanosphere. This study provides foundation for further exploration of self-assembling structures that are based on peptides with hydrophobic and hydrophilic moieties located on the opposite sides of a peptide backbone. 相似文献
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L. Selva Roselin G. R. Rajarajeswari Rosilda Selvin V Sadasivam B. Sivasankar K. Rengaraj 《Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters》2003,78(2):259-265
Photocatalytic degradation of Acid violet 19 (AV 19) under UV radiation followed first-order kinetics and obeyed Langmuir-Hinshelwood
mechanism. The oxidants involved were identified as positive hole, hydroxyl radical and superoxide anion radical.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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