Shaping Peptide Assemblies Using Multifaceted Cyclic Tectons.

Chenru Wang, Dexin Lu, Jiakang Li, Linyuan Chen, Xiaobing Zuo, Chuanliu Wu, Xian-Kui Wei, Binju Wang*, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147 (28), 24510-24518. link

Noncovalently Bridging Cell-Surface Proteins Using Synthetic Peptides to Modulate Cell Apoptosis.

Fan Jia, Tian Luo, Jinyan Zhuang, Pan Guo, Ning Fang*, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

Nano Letters 2025, 25 (1), 268-275. link

Peptide Designs for Cell-Interfacing Assemblies. 

Pan Guo, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

Chemistry-A European Journal 2025, 31 (2), e202402880. link

2024

Preserving Structurally Labile Peptide Nanosheets After Molecular Functionalization of the Self-Assembling Peptides.

Xin Chen, Cai Xia, Pan Guo, Chenru Wang, Xiaobing Zuo, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 63 (2), e202315296. (Hot Paper) link

On-Demand Elongation of Peptide Nanofibrils at Cellular Interfaces to Modulate Cell–Cell Interactions.

Pan Guo, Xingjing Zhang, Jingsheng Chen, Xiaoyong Chen, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

Nano Letters 2024, 24 (36), 11194-11201. link

Assembly of Peptide Nanostructures with Controllable Sizes.

Dan Cheng, Fan Jia, Yun-Bao Jiang, Vincent P. Conticello*, Tao Jiang*

Nano Research 2024, 17 (1), 151-161. link

Self-Assembled Peptide Sheet-Mediated Multivalent Capture of Cells with Enhanced Tunability.

Cai Xia, Xin Chen*, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

ChemBioChem 2024, 26 (4), e202400797. link

Design of Cell-Specific Targeting Peptides for Cancer Therapy.

Xiaoyong Chen, Di Wang, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

Targets 2024, 2 (3), 186-201. link

2023

Design of Multicomponent Peptide Fibrils with Ordered and Programmable Compositional Patterns.

Dan Cheng, Xin Chen, Weijia Zhang, Pan Guo, Wenhui Xue, Junfan Xia, Siyu Wu, Junhui Shi, Dan Ma, Xiaobing Zuo, Bin Jiang, Shaowei Li, Ningshao Xia, Yun-Bao Jiang, Vincent P. Conticello*, Tao Jiang*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023, 62 (22), e202303684. link

Reassembly of Peptide Nanofibrils on Live Cell Surfaces Promotes Cell–Cell Interactions.

Pan Guo, Di Wang, Shumin Zhang, Dan Cheng, Siyu Wu, Xiaobing Zuo, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang*

Nano Letters 2023, 23 (14), 6386-6392. link

Population-Based Heteropolymer Design to Mimic Protein Mixtures.

Zhiyuan Ruan, Shuni Li, Alexandra Grigoropoulos, Hossein Amiri, Shayna L. Hilburg, Haotian Chen, Ivan Jayapurna, Tao Jiang, Zhaoyi Gu, Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Carlos Bustamante, Haiyan Huang, Ting Xu*

Nature 2023, 615 (7951), 251-258. link

2022

Design of High-Avidity Multivalent Ligand Structures That Target Cells with High Ligand Economy.

Qingqing Fang, Pan Guo, Yiting Zeng, Chenru Wang, Tao Jiang*, Yun-Bao Jiang*

Chemical Communications 2022, 58 (70), 9802-9805. link

Synthetic Approaches to Metal-Coordination-Directed Macrocyclic Complexes.

Qingqing Fang, Yan Xu, Xiaosheng Yan*, Tao Jiang*, Yun-Bao Jiang*

Frontiers in Chemistry 2022, 10, 1078432. link

2021

Nanospheres from Coordination Polymers of Ag⁺ with A Highly Hydrophilic Thiol Ligand Formed In Situ from Dynamic Covalent Binding and A Hydrophobic Thiol.

Yan Xu, Xiaosheng Yan, Sibo Zhang, Shaowei Li, Ningshao Xia, Tao Jiang, Zhao Li, Yun-Bao Jiang*

New Journal of Chemistry 2021, 45 (42), 19957-19962. link

2013-2020

Single-Chain Heteropolymers Transport Protons Selectively and Rapidly.

Tao Jiang, Aaron Hall, Marco Eres, Zahra Hemmatian, Baofu Qiao, Yun Zhou, Zhiyuan Ruan, Andrew D. Couse, William T. Heller, Haiyan Huang, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Marco Rolandi, Ting Xu*

Nature 2020, 577 (7789), 216-220. link

Random Heteropolymers Preserve Protein Function in Foreign Environments.

Brian Panganiban, Baofu Qiao, Tao Jiang, Christopher DelRe, Mona M. Obadia, Nguyen Trung Dac, Anton A. A. Smith, Aaron Hall, Izaac Sit, Marquise G. Crosby, Patrick B. Dennis, Eric Drockenmuller, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Ting Xu*

Science 2018, 359 (6381), 1239-1243. link

Programmable Fabrication of Multilayer Collagen Nanosheets of Defined Composition.

Tao Jiang, Vincent P. Conticello*

Methods in Molecular Biology 2018, 1777, 221-232. link

Structurally Ordered Nanowire Formation from Co-Assembly of DNA Origami and Collagen-Mimetic Peptides.

Tao Jiang, Travis A. Meyer, Charles Modlin, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello*, Yonggang Ke*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139 (40), 14025-14028. link

Geometrical Frustration as A Potential Design Principle for Peptide-Based Assemblies.

Tao Jiang, Elizabeth L. Magnotti, Vincent P. Conticello*

Interface Focus 2017, 7 (6), 20160141. link

Rational Design of Multilayer Collagen Nanosheets with Compositional and Structural Control.

Tao Jiang, Owen A. Vail, Zhigang Jiang, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137 (24), 7793-7802. link

Developing A Genetically Encoded Green Fluorescent Protein Mutant for Sensitive Light-Up Fluorescent Sensing and Cellular Imaging of Hg(II).

Tao Jiang, Daiping Guo, Qian Wang, Xin Wu, Zhao Li, Zhenhua Zheng, Boyuan Yin, Lin Xia, Jixian Tang, Wenxin Luo, Ningshao Xia, Yun-Bao Jiang*

Analytica Chimica Acta 2015, 876, 77-82. link

Structurally Homogeneous Nanosheets from Self-Assembly of a Collagen-Mimetic Peptide.

Tao Jiang, Chunfu Xu, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53 (32), 8367-8371. (Hot Paper) link

Structurally Defined Nanoscale Sheets from Self-Assembly of Collagen-Mimetic Peptides.

Tao Jiang, Chunfu Xu, Yang Liu, Zheng Liu, Joseph S. Wall, Xiaobing Zuo, Tianquan Lian, Khalid Salaita, Chaoying Ni, Darrin Pochan, Vincent P. Conticello*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136 (11), 4300-4308. link

Controlling Self-Assembly of a Peptide-Based Material via Metal-Ion Induced Registry Shift. 

Paolo Anzini, Chunfu Xu, Spencer Hughes, Elizabeth Magnotti, Tao Jiang, Lars Hemmingsen, Borries Demeler, Vincent P. Conticello*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135 (28), 10278-10281. link