Title
Cosolvents Restrain Self-Assembly of a Fibroin-Like Peptide on Graphite
Date Issued
07 October 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Noguchi H.
Hayamizu Y.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Controllable self-assembly of peptides on solid surfaces has been investigated for establishing functional bio/solid interfaces. In this work, we study the influence of organic solvents on the self-assembly of a fibroin-like peptide on a graphite surface. The peptide has been designed by mimicking fibroin proteins to have strong hydrogen bonds among peptides enabling their self-assembly. We have employed cosolvents of water and organic solvents with a wide range of dielectric constants to control peptide self-assembly on the surface. Atomic force microscopy has revealed that the peptides self-assemble into highly ordered monolayer-thick linear structures on graphite after incubation in pure water, where the coverage of peptides on the surface is more than 85%. When methanol is mixed, the peptide coverage becomes zero at a threshold concentration of 30% methanol on graphite and 25% methanol on MoS2. The threshold concentration in ethanol, isopropanol, dimethyl sulfoxide, and acetone varies depending on the dielectric constant with restraining self-assembly of the peptides, and particularly low dielectric-constant protic solvents prevent the peptide self-assembly significantly. The observed phenomena are explained by competitive surface adsorption of the organic solvents and peptides and the solvation effect of the peptide assembly.
Start page
10893
End page
10899
Volume
125
Issue
39
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85116601448
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
ISSN of the container
15206106
Sponsor(s)
The research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25706012 and 16H05973 and partly supported by the Precise Measurement Technology Promotion Foundation (PMTP-F). R.C. has been financially supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan (MEXT code: 190446).
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