Strategy for Designing Self-Assembling Peptides to Prepare Transparent Nanofiber Hydrogel at Neutral pH

Figure 2

Schematic illustrations of the hydrophilic surface of the antiparallel β-sheet structure (red circle: acidic amino acid, blue circle: basic amino acid). Each β-sheet structure has AABA lanes perpendicular to the molecular axis, and each has its own pattern of charged amino acids.