β Sheets not required: Combined experimental and computational studies of self-assembly and gelation of the ester-containing analogue of an Fmoc-Dipeptide Hydrogelator

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 5287-5296

  Eckes, Kevin M ^a   Mu, Xiaojia ^a   Ruehle, Marissa A ^a   Ren, Pengyu ^a   Suggs, Laura J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84900391988     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la500679b     Document Type: Article

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