Fabrication and characterization of hydrogels formed from designer coiled-coil fibril-forming peptides

A peptide sequence was designed to form α-helical fibrils and hydrogels at physiological pH, utilising transient buffering by carbonic acid.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:RSC Advances
Main Authors: Dexter, A. F., Fletcher, N. L., Creasey, R. G., Filardo, F., Boehm, M. W., Jack, K. S.
Other Authors: Australian Research Council
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2017
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7ra02811c
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/RA/C7RA02811C
Description
Summary:A peptide sequence was designed to form α-helical fibrils and hydrogels at physiological pH, utilising transient buffering by carbonic acid.