Cystine oligomers successfully attached to peptide cysteine-rich fibrils
Christian Bortolini, Mingdong Dong
Cystine oligomers successfully attached to peptide cysteine-rich fibrils
Amyloid peptides are renowned to be related to neurodegenerative diseases, however, a fruitful avenue is to employ them as high-performance nanomaterials. These materials benefit from the intrinsic outstanding mechanical robustness of the amyloid backbone made of b-strands. In this work, we exploited amyloid-like fibrils as functional material to attach pristine L-cysteine aggregates (cystine oligomers) and gold nanoparticles, without the need of templating compounds. This work will open new avenues on functional materials design and their realisation.
cysteine / peptide fibrils / gold nanoparticles / amyloids / oligomers / nanomaterials
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