Cyclopeptide nanotubes

Figure 8 A cyclopeptide nanotube constructed from cyclo[(D-Ala-Glu-D-Ala-Gln) ] (Reproduced with permission from J. Phys. Chem. B, 101, 10576 American Chemical Society)...

Figure 1 Nanotube-shell conformation of cyclopeptide-polymer coil copolymers (ten Cate et al., 2006).

Not only cyclopeptides are suitable for the construction of nanotubes. [16] Stacked cyclo-... 

Fig. 5 Examples of systems able to form channels in membranes. Left the Ghadiri s self-assembled nanotube formed by cyclopeptides. Right The Voyer s 21 amino acid peptide containing six 21-crown-7 L-phenylalanines. In a membrane, the peptide adopts an a-helical conformation that allows the partial alignment of the macrocycles, one over the other.

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