Metal-peptide assemblies, large-scale

As will be discussed below, our group has worked to augment the inherent self-assembly properties of a-helical coiled-coils by adding metal-binding sites to 1) their hyi-ophobic cores in order to construct small-scale metal-peptide nanoassemblies having dimensions on the order of several nanometers (5, 8-11), and 2) their solvent-exposed surfaces for their construction of large-scale assemblies (d, 7, 12). 

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