Engineered Peptides: Current Applications and Future Perspectives
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 3051
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute for Bioengineering Research, University of Kansas, 1530 W 15th St Learned Hall Lawrence, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Interests: bio-nano interfaces; bio-nanotechnology; surfaces; biomaterials; tissue engineering; nano-biosensors; biocatalysis molecular biomimetics; bioengineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Engineered peptides represent the functional frontiers for the lessons to learn from biological systems to adapt and design functions inspired by proteins. Essentially all fundamental biological processes, including catalysis, metabolism, energy storage, regulation, transport, repair, and maintenance, require proteins that perform diverse functions. Proteins orchestrate cellular and molecular communications, carry out enzymatic reactions, perform regulatory, transport, motor, protective, and structural functions, and control the formation of soft and hard tissues. Peptides designed and engineered to include fundamental molecular information could be an indispensable molecular tool to achieve functional engineering outcomes that are applicable to emerging technologies, including bio-economies, medical, and technological applications.
This Special Issue focuses on the novel design approaches of engineered peptides, their current applications, and emerging functionalities across diverse fields. Peptide and peptide hybrid molecular systems can be engineered to have structural diversity, dynamic and spatial features that exhibit novel functions, unique hierarchical morphologies, and temporal phases. They can be an integral component of functional materials and devices and control bio-hybrid interface interactions.
This Topic welcomes but is not limited to original research, reviews, and mini reviews in the following research areas:
- Advanced nano-supramolecular technologies;
- AI/ML methodologies and computational approaches in peptide design, characterization, and targeted functionality;
- Bioactive, biomimetic peptide design and applications;
- Engineered peptides in food, agriculture, and bioeconomy;
- Functional peptide–polymer hybrid interfaces and surfaces;
- Peptide nanoassemblies;
- Therapeutic peptides;
- Peptide drug delivery systems;
- Peptide-based array and devices structures;
- Integration of biochemical and chemical diversity into peptide design;
- Smart biofunctional materials;
- Peptides at the interface of synthetic biology and materials science.
Prof. Dr. Candan Tamerler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- AI/ML approaches in peptide design
- bioactivity biobased bio-nanoassemblies
- diagnostics drug delivery
- engineered living materials
- molecular biomimetics
- peptides
- polypeptides self-assembly
- smart biohybrid materials
- supramolecular technologies
- therapeutics
