Designing stable, hierarchical peptide fibers from block co-polypeptide sequences

Here we report the pH induced self-assembly of equilibrium zwitterionically charged block co-polypeptide nanotubes into hierarchical nanotube fibers.

Studying the Polypeptide Sequence (α-Code) of Escherichia coli

This paper is devoted to algebraically simulating the α-code of bacterium Escherichia coli and studying contrast factors (words) in its polypeptide sequence. We utilize the methods of spectral theory of graphs which were previously employed by us for enumerating De Bruijn and Kautz sequences. The empirical material is borrowed from the computer investigation of contrast factors in the polypeptide sequences of prokaryotes.