Insights on beta-hairpin stability in aqueous solution from peptides with enforced type I' and type II' beta-turns
Insights on beta-hairpin stability in aqueous solution from peptides with enforced type I' and type II' beta-turns
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DOI:
10.1021/ja963653h
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发表时间:
1997-03-05
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15
通讯作者:
Gellman, SH
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作者:
Haque, TS;Gellman, SH
R-helix 2 and β-turn3 stability, but this approach has been difficult to implement for a β-sheet. 4 β-Hairpins, which contain two antiparallel β-strands linked by a short loop, constitute minimum increments of a β-sheet and therefore could provide a basis for probing antiparallel β-sheet stability. 5-9 Here, we show that selective D-residue incorporation in a family of 16-residue peptides induces β-hairpin folding, with a tight two-residue loop at a defined position, in aqueous solution. Comparison of these heterochiral peptides with the all-L diastereomers provides insight on the forces that favor the β-hairpin conformation.Several short peptides have recently been shown to adopt β-hairpin conformations in aqueous solution, 5-8 but the use of these peptides as platforms for β-sheet analysis is problematic because the factors that specify the position and size of the loop have been unclear. The first reported autonomous hairpin, YQNPDGSQA (1), was designed by extrapolation from residues 15-23 of tendamistat, YQSWRYSQA. 5a In 1, the PDG segment forms a three-residue loop, 5a but the original sequence in the native protein adopts a β-hairpin with a two-residue loop at the WR segment. 10 Searle et al. have found β-hairpin folding in MQIFVKNPDGTLTLEV-NH2 (2), 7 a 16-residue peptide derived from the 17 N-terminal residues of ubiquitin, MQIFVKTLTGKTITLEV. In the native protein, these 17 residues adopt a β-hairpin with a three-residue loop across LTG. 11 Searle et al. intended to replace this natural loop with a tight, two-residue loop across PD; however, 2 formed a β-hairpin with a threeresidue loop across PDG, which led to a non-native strand pairing. 7