Assembly Pathway Selection of Designer Self-Assembling Peptide and Fabrication of Hierarchical Scaffolds for Neural Regeneration

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Yuyuan ZhaoLiumin He

Abstract

The self-assembling peptide (SAP) RADA 16-I has been modified with various functional motifs to improve its performances in biomedical applications. Nevertheless, the assembly mechanisms of designer functional RADA 16-I SAPs (F-SAPs) have not been clearly illustrated. The main problem is the difficulty in preparing a completely molecular aqueous solution of F-SAP. In the current study, we demonstrated that different procedures for preparing the F-SAP solution could result in the formation of different conformations and consequently micro/macroscopic morphologies. F-SAP was molecularly dissolved in an appropriate solvent, such as hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP), as evidenced by random coil conformation characterized by circular dichroism spectroscopy and morphologies under transmission electron microscopy. The monomers were induced into monolayers when the F-SAP solution in HFIP was adsorbed on mica as observed by atomic force microscopy. However, nanoscaled filaments containing β-sheets dominated in the F-SAP aqueous solution, in which case water acted as a poor solvent of F-SAP. Furthermore, the results of molecular dynamics simulation implicated that water facilitated F-SAP aggregation, whereas HFIP inhibited it. The β-sheet ass...Continue Reading

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