Perez AR, Liu J, Sikder SMM, Maity A, Adewole A, Oakden J, Ren G, Dutagaci B, Merg AD. Mesoporous peptide frameworks engineered from crystallizable collagen-mimetic peptide amphiphiles. Nature Communications. In Press In Press.
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Sono MH, Venegas A, Cornejo KG, Adewole A, Ghosh D, Truong A, Alvarez EH, Rodriguez JM, Ioffe A, Soleimani B, et al. Tat and other arginine-rich peptides attenuate neuronal activity-induced signaling and gene transcription via extracellular inhibition of NMDA receptors. Cell Chemical Biology. Submitted Submitted.
2026
Ghosh D, Perez AR, Sikder SMM, Vasquez JR, Zhang C, Maity A, Ye T, Merg AD. Influence of Linker Design on the Stability, Folding, and Assembly of Tethered Collagen-Mimetic Peptides. RSC Chemical Biology. 2026.
Ahmed ST, Zhai S, Huang X, Sulaja S, Adewole A, Ioffe A, Merg AD, Yan J, Eguiluz RCA. Vibrio cholerae adhesin-derived peptide mediates strong pull-off forces in aqueous high-ionic-strength environments. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 2026;260:115390.
2024
Perez AR, Adewole A, Sihwa D, Colvin ME, Merg AD. Coiled Coil Peptide Tiles: Expanding the Peptide Building Block Design with Multivalent Peptide Macrocycles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024;146:30252–30261.
Perez AR, Lee Y, Colvin ME, Merg AD. Interhelical E@g-N@a Interactions Modulate Coiled Coil Stability within a De Novo Set of Orthogonal Peptide Heterodimers. J. Pept. Sci. 2024;30(2):e3540.
Moses D, Guadalupe K, Yu F, Flores E, Perez A, McAnelly R, Shamoon NM, Cuevas-Zepeda E, Merg AD, Martin EW, et al. Structural biases in disordered proteins are prevalent in the cell. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 2024;31:283–292.
2020
Merg AD, Touponse G, van Genderen E, Blum T, Zuo X, Bazrafshan A, Siaw HMH, McCanna A, Dyer B, Salaita K, et al. Shape-Shifting Peptide Nanomaterials: Surface Asymmetry Enables pH-Dependent Formation and Interconversion of Collagen Tubes and Sheets. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020;142:19956–19968.
2019
Merg AD, van Genderen E, Bazrafshan A, Su H, Zuo X, Touponse G, Blum TB, Salaita K, Abrahams JP, Conticello VP. Seeded Heteroepitaxial Growth of Crystallizable Collagen Triple Helices: Engineering Multifunctional Two-Dimensional Core-Shell Nanostructures. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019;141(51):20107–20117.
Merg AD, Touponse G, van Genderen E, Zuo X, Bazrafshan A, Blum T, Hughes S, Salaita K, Abrahams JP, Conticello VP. 2D Crystal Engineering of Nanosheets Assembled from Helical Peptide Building Blocks. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019;58(38):13507–13512.