Structural Observation of the Self-Assembly Kinetics of Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes

DOI

Cyclic peptides with alternating side chain stereochemistry are capable of self-assembling into long nanotubes. The conjugation of polymers to these peptides renders the resulting nanotubes water soluble, whilst providing functionality. Self-assembled nanotubes have promising applications in drug encapsulation and delivery where controlled assembly and disassembly is required for tailoring drug release. We have synthesised a pH-responsive peptide which will assemble or disassemble triggered by a change in pH in different subcellular compartments. We propose to investigate the influence of both polymer chain length and drug conjugation on nanotube self-assembly kinetics and observe nanotube structural evolution using time-resolved SANS with in-line UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. This will enable the optimised design of controlled, tuneable nanotubes as drug delivery vectors.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920524-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/108624490
Provenance
Creator Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Dr Najet Mahmoudi; Professor Sebastien Perrier; Dr Qiao Song; Miss Maria Kariuki; Dr Stephen Hall; Miss Sophie Hill
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-11-13T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-17T12:24:01Z