Induction of one-handed helical screw sense in achiral peptide through the domino effect based on interacting its N-terminal amino group with chiral carboxylic acid
Induction of one-handed helical screw sense in achiral peptide through the domino effect based on interacting its N-terminal amino group with chiral carboxylic acid
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DOI:
10.1021/ja0026096
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发表时间:
2000-11-29
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15
通讯作者:
Yamashita, M
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作者:
Inai, Y;Tagawa, K;Yamashita, M
A helical chain being the most common secondary structure in biopolymers prefers one-handed (left-or right-handed) screw sense, when chiral moieties are incorporated into the main or side chain through the covalent bond. We here report that an achiral helical peptide prefers the one-handed helical screw sense by noncovalent interaction of its N-terminal amino group with a chiral carboxylic acid. Little is known about such phenomena in peptide systems typical of biopolymers, although it has been reported that synthetic helical polymers bearing carboxyl or amino groups in the repeating units induce the one-handed screw sense by addition of chiral small amines or acids to interact on their polymer side or main chains. 1 In our system, the acid-base interaction occurring in the N-terminal position of the peptide chain will lead to the predominance of one-handed screw sense of the entire peptide chain, namely through domino effect. For our purpose, the following N-deprotected nonapeptide 1 consisting of nonprotein amino acids [R-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) and R,-dehydrophenylalanine (ΔZPhe)] was synthesized. 2Peptide 1 can be expected to generate two “enantiomeric”(leftand right-handed) helices, since Aib and ΔZPhe residues are achiral ones and strong inducers for forming a 310-helix. 3 Actually, a helical conformation was evidenced by 1H NMR spectroscopy on peptide 1 in CDCl3. In the NOESY experiment, marked crosspeaks were observed for the NiH-Ni+ 1H resonances in the