Computational Design of Peptide Assemblies.
Journal:
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Published Date:
Jan 11, 2024
Abstract
With the ongoing development of peptide self-assembling materials, there is growing interest in exploring novel functional peptide sequences. From short peptides to long polypeptides, as the functionality increases, the sequence space is also expanding exponentially. Consequently, attempting to explore all functional sequences comprehensively through experience and experiments alone has become impractical. By utilizing computational methods, especially artificial intelligence enhanced molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and peptide design, there has been a significant expansion in the exploration of sequence space. Through these methods, a variety of supramolecular functional materials, including fibers, two-dimensional arrays, nanocages, , have been designed by meticulously controlling the inter- and intramolecular interactions. In this review, we first provide a brief overview of the current main computational methods and then focus on the computational design methods for various self-assembled peptide materials. Additionally, we introduce some representative protein self-assemblies to offer guidance for the design of self-assembling peptides.