Chimeric peptides varieties

Although a variety of scaffolds can be construed to be polymeric, this section focuses on Unear polymers, den-drimers, and a few examples of peptides, self-assembUng, and chimeric structures. 

Recently, synthetic or natural polypeptides have been created or modified to serve as sihca condensation templates. Examples of these include the poly(amino acids) [79], the diatom-derived R5-peptide [66], chimeric polypeptides [64, 67], block copolypeptides [71, 72, 75, 80], lanreotide [63] and even the naturally occurring protamine [65]. These polypeptides have been used to produce a variety of sihca shapes and sizes, which can be tuned to perform a variety of applications, including transport and the separation of encapsulated materials [62], or potentially for dmg dehvery [73]. 

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