Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

A minimal length rigid helical peptide motif allows rational design of modular surfactants

  • Sudipta Mondal,
  • Maxim Varenik,
  • Daniel Nir Bloch,
  • Yoav Atsmon-Raz,
  • Guy Jacoby,
  • Lihi Adler-Abramovich,
  • Linda J.W. Shimon,
  • Roy Beck,
  • Yifat Miller,
  • Oren Regev,
  • Ehud Gazit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14018
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Emulsifiers are used in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, and biomedical industry. Here the authors fabricate rigid helical peptides that can perform as emulsifiers and thickeners, which typically requires synergistic effects of surfactants and polysaccharides.