Atomic Scale Structure of Self-assembled Lipidated Peptide Nanomaterials.

β-Peptides have great potential as novel biomaterials and therapeutic agents, due to their unique ability to self-assemble into low dimensional nanostructures, and their resistance to enzymatic degradation in vivo. However, the self-assembly mechanisms of β-peptides, which possess increased flexibility due to the extra backbone methylene groups present within the constituent β-amino acids, are not well understood due to inherent difficulties of observing their bottom-up growth pathway experimentally. We present a computational approach for the bottom-up modelling of the self-assembled lipidated β

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