Publications

2025

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. (review)

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 CellCell 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. (review)

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. (review)

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 CellCell 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. (review)

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


Prior to 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. (review)

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