AMINO-AROMATIC INTERACTIONS IN PROTEINS
AMINO-AROMATIC INTERACTIONS IN PROTEINS
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(86)80730-x
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发表时间:
1986-07-28
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
PETSKO, GA
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作者:
BURLEY, SK;PETSKO, GA
Geometric analysis of 33 refined high‐resolution protein crystal structures (2 Å or higher) demonstrates that side‐chain amino groups interact with aromatic side chains. Positively charged or δ(+) amino groups of lysine, arginine, asparagine, glutamine and histidine are preferentially located within 6 Å of the ring centroids of phenylalanine, tyrosine and trytophan, where they make van der Waals' contact with the δ(−) π‐electrons and avoid the δ(+) ring edge. This geometric pattern is different from the distribution expected due to random close packing of side chains in a protein. It is opposite to oxygen‐ and sulfur‐aromatic interactions, similar to aromatic‐aromatic interactions, and almost certainly electrostatic in origin.