Abstract : Over the last twenty years, low-molecular weight gelators and, in particular, peptide-based hydrogels, have drawn great attention from scientists thanks to both their inherent advantages in terms of properties and their high modularity (e.g., number and nature of the amino acids). These supramolecular hydrogels originate from specific peptide self-assembly processes that can be driven, modulated and optimized via specific chemical modifications brought to the peptide sequence. Among them, the incorporation of nucleobases, another class of biomolecules well-known for their abilities to self-assemble, has recently appeared as a new promising and burgeoning approach to finely design supramolecular hydrogels. In this minireview, we would like to highlight the interest, high potential, applications and perspectives of these innovative and emerging low-molecular weight nucleopeptide-based hydrogels.
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Tristan Giraud, Paul Hoschtettler, Guillaume Pickaert, Marie-Christine Averlant-Petit, Loïc Stefan. Emerging low-molecular weight nucleopeptide-based hydrogels: state of the art, applications, challenges and perspectives. Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022, ⟨10.1039/D1NR06131C⟩. ⟨hal-03617626⟩