Authors:	Berac, Christian M. Zengerling, Lydia Straβburger, David Otter, Ronja Urschbach, Moritz Besenius, Pol
Title:	Evaluation of charge-regulated supramolecular copolymerization to tune the time scale for oxidative disassembly of β-sheet comonomers
Online publication date:	1-Jun-2022
Year of first publication:	2020
Language:	english
Abstract:	A multistimuli-responsive supramolecular copolymerization is reported. The copolymerization is driven by hydrogen bond encoded β-sheet-based charge co-assembly into 1D nanorods in water, using glutamic acid or lysine residues in either of the peptide comonomers. The incorporation of methionine as hydrophobic amino acid supports β-sheet formation, but oxidation of the thioether side-chain to a sulfoxide functional group destabilizes the β-sheet ordered domains and induces disassembly of the supramolecular polymers. Using H2O2 as reactive oxygen species, the time scale and kinetics of the oxidative disassembly are probed. Compared to the charge neutral homopolymers, it is found that the oxidative disassembly of the charged ampholytic copolymers is up to two times faster and is operative at neutral pH. The strategy is therefore an important addition to the growing field of amphiphilic polythioether containing (macro)molecular building blocks, particularly in view of tuning their oxidation induced disassembly which tends to be notoriously slow and requires high concentrations of reactive oxygen species or acidic reaction media
DDC:	540 Chemie 540 Chemistry and allied sciences
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 09 Chemie, Pharmazie u. Geowissensch.
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7063
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	Macromolecular rapid communications 41 1
Pages or article number:	1900476
Publisher:	Wiley-VCH
Publisher place:	Weinheim
Issue date:	2020
ISSN:	1521-3927
Publisher DOI:	10.1002/marc.201900476
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen