Squid suckerin biomimetic peptides form amyloid-like crystals with robust mechanical properties

• Main Authors: Hiew, Shu Hui, Sánchez-Ferrer, Antoni, Amini, Shahrouz, Zhou, Feng, Adamcik, Jozef, Guerette, Paul, Su, Haibin, Mezzenga, Raffaele, Miserez, Ali
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Bioinformatics; Peptides
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86572; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45172
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We present the self-assembly of fibers formed from a peptide sequence (A1H1) derived from suckerin proteins of squid sucker ring teeth (SRT). SRT are protein-only biopolymers with an unconventional set of physicochemical and mechanical properties including high elastic modulus coupled with thermopla...