Patent ID: 8835395

Claim:
A gel comprising an amphiphilic peptide comprising a hydrophobic terminal region, a turning region, and a hydrophilic terminal region, said turning region being between said hydrophobic and hydrophilic terminal regions, wherein: said hydrophobic region comprises, in any order, amino acid residues of FLIVI (SEQ ID NO:4); said hydrophilic region is selected from the group consisting of: [GPGXD] n (SEQ ID NO: 15), where n is from 1 to 10, and each X is G or A; GPGX 1 DGX 2 X 1 X 1 D (SEQ ID NO: 14), where each X 1 is individually selected from the group consisting of A, G, V, I, and L, and X 2 is selected from the group consisting of P, A, G, V, I, and L; and GPGXD (SEQ ID NO: 16), where X is selected from the group consisting of A, G, V, I, and L; and said turning region is selected from the group consisting of: G, GG, GGG, GGGG (SEQ ID NO: 17), GSXX (SEQ ID NO: 18), XGSX (SEQ ID NO:19), XXGS (SEQ ID NO:20), SGXX (SEQ ID NO:21), XSGX (SEQ ID NO:22), XXSG (SEQ ID NO:23), GXSX (SEQ ID NO:24), XGXS (SEQ ID NO:25), SXGX (SEQ ID NO:26), XSXG (SEQ ID NO:27), GXXS (SEQ ID NO:28), SXXG (SEQ ID NO:29), where each X is individually selected from the group consisting of G, I, V, A, and L, and each S could be replaced by T.