Efficient energy transfer within self-assembling peptide fibers: a route to light-harvesting nanomaterials.
Small peptides offer an attractive starting point for the development of self-assembling materials for a variety of purposes, since they are relatively simple to produce and can be tailored to provide an expansive range of chemical functionality. We have employed a short peptide that spontaneously self-assembles into a multimolecular fibrillar architecture to drive the coassembly of two independent luminescent moieties. We use fluorescence spectroscopy to demonstrate that the resulting complex performs a light-harvesting function.
Channon
Kevin J
KJ
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
Devlin
Glyn L
GL
MacPhee
Cait E
CE
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D032701:Biomimetics; D004735:Energy Transfer; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*
D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D010455:Peptides