Probing the self-assembly mechanism of diphenylalanine-based peptide nanovesicles and nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3907-3918

  Guo, Cong ^a   Luo, Yin ^a   Zhou, Ruhong ^b,c   Wei, Guanghong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grained model; Molecular dynamics simulations; Nanostructure; Phenylalanine dipeptide; Self assembly pathway; T shaped aromatic stacking

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; DI-PEPTIDES; DIPEPTIDE; ENERGETIC ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTIONS; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION; NANOARCHITECTURES; NANOTEMPLATING; ORDERED NANOSTRUCTURES; PLANAR BILAYERS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RANDOM CONFIGURATIONS; SELF-ASSEMBLE; T-SHAPED AROMATIC STACKING; VESICLE-LIKE STRUCTURES;

AMINO ACIDS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; PEPTIDES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

DIPHENYLALANINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; PHENYLALANINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHENYLALANINE;

EID: 84864680942     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300015g     Document Type: Article

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