Cysteine Redox Chemistry in Peptide Self-Assembly to Modulate Hydrogelation.

Maria Cristina Cringoli Silvia Marchesan

Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)

Cysteine redox chemistry is widely used in nature to direct protein assembly, and in recent years it has inspired chemists to design self-assembling peptides too. In this concise review, we describe the progress in the field focusing on the recent advancements that make use of Cys thiol-disulfide redox chemistry to modulate hydrogelation of various peptide classes.

Keyphrases

drug discovery
fluorescent probe
living cells
amino acid
protein protein
binding protein