| Literature DB >> 18855948 |
Larisa Cristina Radu1, Jiyuan Yang, Jindrich Kopecek.
Abstract
The self-assembly of hybrid diblock copolymers composed of poly(HPMA) and beta-sheet peptide P11 (CH(3)CO-QQRFQWQFEQQ-NH(2)) blocks was investigated. Copolymers were synthesized via thiol-maleimide coupling reaction, by conjugation of semitelechelic poly(HPMA)-SH with maleimide-modified beta-sheet peptide. As expected, CD and CR binding studies showed that the peptide block imposed its beta-sheet structural arrangement on the structure of diblock copolymers. TEM and AFM proved that peptide and these copolymers had the ability to self-assemble into fibrils.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 18855948 PMCID: PMC4599367 DOI: 10.1002/mabi.200800193
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Macromol Biosci ISSN: 1616-5187 Impact factor: 4.979