{"id":762090,"date":"2023-08-02T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762090"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:30:10","slug":"steric-zipper-interactions-in-artificial-crystalline-peptide-%ce%b2-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762090","title":{"rendered":"Steric zipper interactions in artificial crystalline peptide \u03b2-sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steric zippers are a specific type of hydrophobic packing structure that form between two adjacent layers of peptide \u03b2-sheets in amyloid and similar fibrils. These structures play a crucial role in the stability and propagation of amyloid fibrils, and can aid in designing new peptide-based materials. However, creating artificial steric zippers is challenging owing to the strong aggregation tendency of \u03b2-sheet peptides. This often leads to the formation of gels and fibrils, making it difficult to obtain structures in their crystalline form.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-steric-zipper-interactions-artificial-crystalline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steric zipper interactions in artificial crystalline peptide \u03b2-sheets<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steric zippers are a specific type of hydrophobic packing structure that form between two adjacent layers of peptide \u03b2-sheets in amyloid and similar fibrils. These structures play a crucial role&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}