PEPTIDE HAVING ITS SELF-ASSEMBLING PROPERTY INDUCED AT GIVEN SALT CONCENTRATION AND SELF-ASSEMBLED MATTER THEREFROM

摘要

Novel self-assembling peptides, in particular, a peptide that self-assembles by mechanism different from that of peptide capable of amphiphilicity-based self-assembly and a novel self-assembling material of peptide dependent upon salt concentration wherein physiological salt concentration is a salt concentration threshold value. There are provided self-assembling peptides represented by, based on recurring sequences of the amino acid sequence of 3rd adhesive protein of barnacle, consensus sequence (SEQ ID NO. 1), sequence having charge cluster EHSHDHHDDD added to the N-terminal side of SEQ ID NO. 1 (SEQ ID NO. 2), 5th recurring sequence (SEQ ID NO. 3), 6th recurring sequence (SEQ ID NO. 4) and SEQ ID NOS. 5 to 12.