SANS study of the effects of leucine-isoleucine sequences on the self-assembly of amphiphilic short peptides

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In this work, we have selected a group of short peptides containing 4-5 Ile (I) and 1 Lys (K) and examined the effects of sequential substitution of one I by L on nanostructuring. Through extensive studies by AFM and TEM, we found that sequential replacements can hugely affect nanostructures via altering peptide packing, layer thickness and twisting. This is because L disfavors hydrogen bonding whilst I encourages it. These structural effects affect how molecules can align and form layers and extend to higher orders of structures. Because these sizes are in the order of a few nanometers and difficult to image but are ideal for SANS measurements. SANS2d is preferred because of its high structural sensitivity and wider Q range to cover weak signals and different size ranges. We request 3 days of SANS2d to undertake the tasks planned.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90681437
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90681437
Provenance
Creator Mr Xuzhi Hu; Professor Hai Xu; Dr Steve King; Mr Zhiming Lu; Dr Zongyi Li; Professor Jian Lu; Professor Jiqian Wang; Mr Huayang Liu
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-06-20T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-25T08:09:56Z