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粗化淀粉样纤维网络的形态学和力学的普遍性

Universality in the morphology and mechanics of coarsening amyloid fibril networks

Leandro G. Rizzi, David A. Head, Stefan Auer

摘要:

超过一个临界浓度,各种各样的肽和蛋白质自组装成淀粉样纤维,这些纤维缠结形成称为水凝胶的交联网络。这种水凝胶作为生物材料和纳米技术有重要的应用,但它们的适用性往往取决于它们的机械性能,我们目前没有预测能力。在这里,我们使用肽模型来模拟淀粉样蛋白纤维网络的形成,并将其与弹性网络理论相结合,以确定其机械性能。模拟结果表明,表征网络长度尺度的形态学量的时间依赖性可以通过使用依赖于肽之间的相互作用参数的时间缩放函数来折叠到主曲线上。使用相同的标度函数来揭示剪切模量随时间的普遍的非单调依赖性。所获得的肽构建块,网络形态和网络的机械性能之间的结构-功能关系的洞察力可以帮助实验设计与定制的机械性能的淀粉样蛋白纤维网络。

英文摘要:

Above a critical concentration a wide variety of peptides and proteins self-assemble into amyloid fibrils which entangle to form percolating networks called hydrogels. Such hydrogels have important applications as biomaterials and in nanotechnology, but their applicability often depends on their mechanical properties for which we currently have no predictive capability. Here we use a peptide model to simulate the formation of amyloid fibril networks, and couple these to elastic network theory to determine their mechanical properties. The simulations reveal that the time-dependence of morphological quantities characterizing the network length scales can be collapsed onto master curves by using a time scaling function that depends on the interaction parameter between the peptides. The same scaling function is used to unveil a universal, non-monotonic dependence of the shear modulus with time. The obtained insight into the structure-function relationship between the peptide building blocks, network morphology and network mechanical properties can aid experimentalists to design amyloid fibril networks with tailored mechanical properties.

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