Super-helices self-assembled from a binary system of amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers

Chunhua Cai; Jiaping Lin; Tao Chen; Xiao-Song Wang; Shaoliang Lin

doi:10.1039/b823367e

Super-helices self-assembled from a binary system of amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 May 21:(19):2709-11. doi: 10.1039/b823367e. Epub 2009 Mar 27.

Authors

Chunhua Cai¹, Jiaping Lin, Tao Chen, Xiao-Song Wang, Shaoliang Lin

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.

PMID: 19532929
DOI: 10.1039/b823367e

Abstract

We report here a discovery that amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers are able to aggregate together into super-helical structures of rods and rings, in which polypeptide chains form the core and PEG chains form the shell.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
Molecular Weight
Peptides / chemistry*
Polyethylene Glycols / chemistry*
Polyglutamic Acid / analogs & derivatives
Polyglutamic Acid / chemistry
Polymers / chemistry
Protein Structure, Secondary

Substances

Peptides
Polymers
poly-gamma-benzyl-L-glutamate
Polyglutamic Acid
Polyethylene Glycols