Biocompatible molecules that undergo self-assembly are of high importance in biological and medical applications of nanoscience. Peptides and bile acids are among the most investigated due to their ability to self-organize into many different, often stimuli-sensitive, supramolecular structures. With the aim of preparing molecules mixing the aggregation properties of bile acid and amino acid-based molecules, we report on the synthesis and self-association behavior of two diastereomers obtained by substituting a hydroxyl group of cholic acid with a L-phenylalanine residue. The obtained molecules are amphoteric, and we demonstrate that they show a pH-dependent self-assembly. Both molecules aggregate in globular micelles at high pH, whereas they form tubular superstructures under acid conditions. Unusual narrow nanotubes with outer and inner cross-section diameters of about 6 and 3 um are formed by the derivatives. The diasteroisomer with alpha orientation of the substituent forms in addition a wider tubule (17 nm cross-section diameter). The ability to pack in supramolecular tubules is explained in terms of a wedge-shaped bola-form structure of the derivatives. Parallel or antiparallel face-to-face dimers are hypothesized as fundamental building blocks for the formation of the narrow and wide nanotubes, respectively.

Between Peptides and Bile Acids: Self-Assembly of Phenylalanine Substituted Cholic Acids / Travaglini, Leana; D'Annibale, Andrea; DI GREGORIO, MARIA CHIARA; Karin, Schillen; Ulf, Olsson; Sennato, Simona; Pavel, Nicolae Viorel; Galantini, Luciano. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL. - ISSN 1520-6106. - STAMPA. - 117:31(2013), pp. 9248-9257. [10.1021/jp405342v]

Between Peptides and Bile Acids: Self-Assembly of Phenylalanine Substituted Cholic Acids

TRAVAGLINI, Leana;D'ANNIBALE, Andrea;DI GREGORIO, MARIA CHIARA;SENNATO, Simona;PAVEL, Nicolae Viorel;GALANTINI, Luciano
2013

Abstract

Biocompatible molecules that undergo self-assembly are of high importance in biological and medical applications of nanoscience. Peptides and bile acids are among the most investigated due to their ability to self-organize into many different, often stimuli-sensitive, supramolecular structures. With the aim of preparing molecules mixing the aggregation properties of bile acid and amino acid-based molecules, we report on the synthesis and self-association behavior of two diastereomers obtained by substituting a hydroxyl group of cholic acid with a L-phenylalanine residue. The obtained molecules are amphoteric, and we demonstrate that they show a pH-dependent self-assembly. Both molecules aggregate in globular micelles at high pH, whereas they form tubular superstructures under acid conditions. Unusual narrow nanotubes with outer and inner cross-section diameters of about 6 and 3 um are formed by the derivatives. The diasteroisomer with alpha orientation of the substituent forms in addition a wider tubule (17 nm cross-section diameter). The ability to pack in supramolecular tubules is explained in terms of a wedge-shaped bola-form structure of the derivatives. Parallel or antiparallel face-to-face dimers are hypothesized as fundamental building blocks for the formation of the narrow and wide nanotubes, respectively.
2013
self-assembly; nanotubes; bile acids
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Between Peptides and Bile Acids: Self-Assembly of Phenylalanine Substituted Cholic Acids / Travaglini, Leana; D'Annibale, Andrea; DI GREGORIO, MARIA CHIARA; Karin, Schillen; Ulf, Olsson; Sennato, Simona; Pavel, Nicolae Viorel; Galantini, Luciano. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL. - ISSN 1520-6106. - STAMPA. - 117:31(2013), pp. 9248-9257. [10.1021/jp405342v]
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