title: Stepwise design of non-covalent wrapping of large diameter carbon nanotubes by peptides.
abstract: Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) is one of the most popular low-dimensional carbon materials in material science, nanomedicine, and nanoscale electronics. Yet the application of the SWCNTs was hindered by the self-aggregation. To purify and disperse the SWCNTs, non-covalent wrapping is one of the effective options to overcome such defects. In this work, two kinds of short peptides were designed to facilitate the modification of large-diameter SWCNT. The design of the peptide was carried out in a stepwise manner. The effective residues of helix-rich and sheet-rich proteins on SWCNT were studied at the first step, and then a coarse model peptide composed of the key adsorption residues above was built to investigate the adsorption dynamics on SWCNT. In the end, the residues include long alkyl side chain and that include aromatic rings were found to play key roles on the adsorption of protein/peptide on hydrophobic SWCNT. And two peptides rich in the long alkyl chain and aromatic rings were constructed respectively. The predominant adsorption capabilities of the two kinds of peptides were discerned by the adsorption details.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental and Analytical Sciences, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, Henan, China. Electronic address: xin_chen@henu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xiaohan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Yafang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jinglai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D007328:Insulin / Q000737:chemistry; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry*; D011485:Protein Binding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D010446:Peptide Fragments
keywords: Molecular design; Molecular dynamics; Non-covalent functionalization; Peptide; Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)