Fig. 1.

Triple helical structure and higher order assembly of collagen mimetic peptides. Collagen mimetic peptides have been designed to assemble into a long triple helical molecule by head-to-tail association (A, reproduced with permission from Ref. [21], © National Academy of Sciences), fibers by attractive interactions between CMP triple helices (B, reproduced with permission from Ref. [70] and [23], © Wiley and American Chemical Society, respectively), and micelle or vesicle-like structures by microphase separation of amphiphilic compounds (C, reproduced with permission from Ref. [79] and [80], © American Chemical Society).