Metal ion scavenging activity of elastin-like peptide analogues containing a cadmium ion binding sequence.

ABSTRACT: The development of simple and safe methods for recovering environmental pollutants, such as heavy metals, is needed for sustainable environmental management. Short elastin-like peptide (ELP) analogues conjugated with metal chelating agents are considered to be useful as metal sequestering agents as they are readily produced, environment friendly, and the metal binding domain can be selected based on any target metal of interest. Due to the temperature dependent self-assembly of ELP, the peptide-based sequestering agents can be transformed from the solution state into the particles that chelate metal ions, which can then be collected as precipitates. In this study, we developed a peptide-based sequestering agent, AADAAC-(FPGVG)₄, by introducing the metal-binding sequence AADAAC o

SUBMITTER: Sumiyoshi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8814041 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature