Tailoring peptide hydrogelators with tunable mechanical properties and diversified applicabilities is an eternal pursuit today. Here, we report the rational design approach of a short, simple enantiomeric segment, Boc‐δ‐Ava‐L‐Phe‐OH (Hydrogelator I) Boc‐δ‐Ava‐D‐Phe‐OH (Hydrogelator II) that manifests β‐sheet conformation and nanofibrous morphology at supramolecular level. Our hydrogelators have excellent biocompatibility, proteolytic stability, thermoreversibility and self‐healing properties. Remarkably, these Hydrogelators not only demonstrate an unprecedented ability to release the anticancer drugs 5‐Fluoro uracil/curcumin/Doxorubicin at physiological pH and room temperature but also modulates an effective route in successful removal of harmful organic effluents from waste water, with the aptitude to reuse the hydrogelator few times. Interestingly it has been investigated that subtle changes in molecular structure of the gelator, turns the gelator into a nongelator molecule (Boc‐Gaba‐L‐Phe‐OH ;Compound III) and (Boc‐Acp‐L‐Phe‐OH ;Compound IV) supported by MD simulation studies. Overall this study establishes innovative design principles towards the development of advanced functional materials for future drug delivery applications and waste water management.

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a continuing clinical problem that limits the efficacy of chemotherapy in cancer. The over expression of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family G2 (ABCG2) transporter is one of the main mechanisms that mediates MDR in cancer. Molecular modeling data indicated that cariprazine, a dopamine D2/D3 receptor partial agonist, had a significant binding affinity for ABCG2 transporter with a Glide XP score of −6.515. Therefore, in this in vitro study, we determined the effect of cariprazine on MDR resulting from the overexpression of ABCG2 transporters. Alone, cariprazine, at concentrations up to 20 μM, did not significantly decrease cell viability. Cariprazine, at concentrations ranging from 1 to 10 μM, did not significantly alter the cytotoxicity of mitoxantrone (MX) in the parental non-small cell cancer cell line, H460 and colon cancer cell S1. However, cariprazine (1–20 μM) significantly enhanced the efficacy of ABCG2 substrate antineoplastic drug MX in the ABCG2-overexpressing MDR cell line, H460-MX20 and S1M1-80, by reducing the resistance fold from 28 to 1 and from 93 to 1.33, respectively. Cariprazine, in a concentration-dependent (1–20 μM), significantly increased the intracellular accumulation of Rhodamine 123 in S1M1-80. Interestingly, 10 or 20 μM of cariprazine significantly decreased the expression levels of the ABCG2 protein in the colon and lung cancer cell lines, suggesting that cariprazine inhibits both the function and expression of ABCG2 transporters at nontoxic concentrations. Overall, our results suggest that cariprazine, via several distinct mechanisms, can resensitize resistant cancer cells to mitoxantrone.