Issue 48, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Fibrillar superstructure from extended nanotapes formed by a collagen-stimulating peptide†

Valeria Castelletto,a   Ian W Hamley,‡*a   Javier Perez,b   Ludmila Abezgauzc  and  Dganit Daninoc  

* Corresponding authors

a Dept of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, UK
E-mail: I.W.Hamley@reading.ac.uk

b Beamline SWING, Synchrotron Soleil, Orme-des-Merisiers, France

c Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

Abstract

The nanostructure of a peptide amphiphile in commercial use in anti-wrinkle creams is investigated. The peptide contains a matrikine, collagen-stimulating, pentapeptide sequence. Self-assembly into giant nanotapes is observed and the internal structure was found to comprise bilayers parallel to the flat tape surfaces.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC03793A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Sep 2010
Accepted
08 Oct 2010
First published
29 Oct 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 9185-9187

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Fibrillar superstructure from extended nanotapes formed by a collagen-stimulating peptide

V. Castelletto, I. W. Hamley, J. Perez, L. Abezgauz and D. Danino, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 9185 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03793A

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