Alcohol-perturbed self-assembly of the tobacco mosaic virus coat protein

• Ismael Abu-Baker and
• Amy Szuchmacher Blum

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 355–362, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.30

• alcohol having the strongest effect and methanol the weakest. We discuss several effects that may contribute to preventing the protein–protein interactions between disks that are necessary to form helical rods. Keywords: alcohol; hydrophobic effect; protein assembly; self-assembly; tobacco mosaic virus

• . Helical rod assembly was recovered after removal of the ethanol by dialysis in all cases (Figure S3, Supporting Information File 1). These results are consistent with a hydrophobic effect exerted by ethanol. TMV-cp assembly has been shown to be largely driven by hydrophobic effects [40]. It is possible

High-tolerance crystalline hydrogels formed from self-assembling cyclic dipeptide

• Yongcai You,
• Ruirui Xing,
• Qianli Zou,
• Feng Shi and
• Xuehai Yan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1894–1901, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.184

• , which provide a substantial tendency for self-assembly and the formation of gels. In addition, other weak forces, such as π–π stacking, hydrophobic effect, electrostatic interactions, and van der Waals forces, are also serviceable in driving molecular self-assembly of CDPs toward the formation of gels

Biocatalytic oligomerization-induced self-assembly of crystalline cellulose oligomers into nanoribbon networks assisted by organic solvents

• Yuuki Hata,
• Yuka Fukaya,
• Toshiki Sawada,
• Masahito Nishiura and
• Takeshi Serizawa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1778–1788, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.173

• were similar in shape to lamellar crystals of cellulose oligomers [42][52][53][54]. According to our examination, the cross-linking of the nanoribbons was apparently based on their physical contact, possibly through the hydrophobic effect and hydrogen bonding. We previously demonstrated nanoribbon

Nanoconjugates of a calixresorcinarene derivative with methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) fragments for drug encapsulation

• Alina M. Ermakova,
• Julia E. Morozova,
• Yana V. Shalaeva,
• Victor V. Syakaev,
• Aidar T. Gubaidullin,
• Alexandra D. Voloshina,
• Vladimir V. Zobov,
• Irek R. Nizameev,
• Olga B. Bazanova,
• Igor S. Antipin and
• Alexander I. Konovalov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2057–2070, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.195

• 200 nm (Figure 4e). Obviously, in the presence of inorganic salts the aggregation of micelles of 3 into “multimicelle aggregates” [31] occurred due to the amplification of the hydrophobic effect and the increase of the role of inter- and intramolecular interactions. Heating of the solutions leads to a

• macrocycle, the hydrophobic effect with its alkyl substituents and hydrogen, and donor–acceptor bonds with its polyethyleneoxy groups. The encapsulation was performed through thin-film hydration (also called evaporation method) or through solubilisation. Thin-film hydration means that ethanol solutions of

Streptavidin-coated gold nanoparticles: critical role of oligonucleotides on stability and fractal aggregation

• Roberta D'Agata,
• Pasquale Palladino and
• Giuseppe Spoto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1–11, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.1

• much research into the contribution of the hydrophobic effect which has been claimed to play a dominant role in ssDNA adsorption [51]. The incubation of BiotinDNA with bare AuNPs at pH 6 produced a plasmon band at 524 nm (Figure 7) thus testifying the adsorption of the oligonucleotide sequence onto the

Nanoscopic surfactant behavior of the porin MspA in aqueous media

• Ayomi S. Perera,
• Hongwang Wang,
• Tej B. Shrestha,
• Deryl L. Troyer and
• Stefan H. Bossmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 278–284, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.30

• Figure 2. The hydrophobic effect is responsible for vesicle formation by MspA We describe the self-assembly process by the free energy model originally developed by C. Tanford [27] and we assume that the residual contact of the water with the hydrophobic constriction zone is negligible after vesicle

• and, to a significantly lesser extent, charge attraction. Thus, the transfer of MspA from the aqueous phase to the bilayer is driven by the hydrophobic effect, which is the thermodynamic driving force of vesicle formation. The influence of charge attraction/repulsion and hydrogen bonding will be

• aggregation behavior of MspA as a function of temperature is apparently governed by the hydrophobic effect, we have observed evidence for a strong influence of the ionic strength in the surface charges of MspA vesicles. Our experimental data clearly indicate that temperature is an important experimental