CIRCULAR DICHROIC ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN CONFORMATION - INCLUSION OF BETA-TURNS
CIRCULAR DICHROIC ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN CONFORMATION - INCLUSION OF BETA-TURNS
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(78)90812-6
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
YANG, JT
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作者:
CHANG, CT;WU, CSC;YANG, JT
The mean residue ellipticity, [.theta.], at any wavelength, .lambda., of a protein in aqueous solution is expressed as [.theta.].lambda. = fH[.theta.]H.infin.(1 - k/.hivin.n) + f.beta.[.theta.].beta. + ft[.theta.]t + fR[.theta.]R with 2 constraints: 1 .gtoreq. fj .gtoreq. 0 and .SIGMA.fj = 1. The subscripts H, .beta., t, and R refer to the helix, .beta.-form, .beta.-turn, and unordered form. The fractions, fj, of 15 proteins are based on X-ray crystallography. ft refers to the net .beta.-turn after canceling those residues having dihedral angles of opposite sign. The .**GRAPHIC**. of an infinite helix and its chain-length dependence factor, k, were computed from myoglobin data. The average number of residues/helical segment, .hivin.n, for 15 proteins was about 10, which can be used for proteins of unknown structure. The reference spectra of 3 other structural elements are computed by a least-squares method. Once the reference spectra are chosen, the same equation above can be used to estimate the fractions of the secondary structure of a protein from its circular dichroism data points between 190-240 nm at 1 nm intervals. The computed helical content is usually good to excellent (concanavalin A is a notable exception). Inclusion of the .beta.-turn in the analysis improves the correlation for the estimates of the .beta.-form, but the computed .beta.t values are not significantly correlated with the X-ray results. Matrix formulation proves the equivalence of the least-squares method and the integral curve-fitting.