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ArticleProteins2009

Very short peptides with stable folds: building on the interrelationship of Trp/Trp, Trp/cation, and Trp/backbone-amide interaction geometries.

Lisa Eidenschink, Brandon L Kier, Kelly N L Huggins, Niels H Andersen

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Article in Proteins, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Implications of aromatic-aromatic interactions: From protein structures to peptide models.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2015
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  15. Captides: rigid junctions between beta sheets and small molecules.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lisa EidenschinkDepartment of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Brandon L Kier
Kelly N L Huggins
Niels H Andersen

Funding

THERMODYNAMICS AND THE DESIGN OF STRUCTURED PEPTIDESR01GM059658 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ANDERSEN, NIELS HJORTH · 2000 to 2009
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM059658NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059658
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By combining a favorable turn sequence with a turn flanking Trp/Trp interaction and a C-terminal H-bonding interaction between a backbone amide and an i-2 Trp ring, a particularly stable (DeltaG(U) > 7 kJ/mol) truncated hairpin, Ac-WI-(D-Pro-D-Asn)-KWTG-NH(2), results. In this construct and others with a W-(4-residue turn)-W motif in severely truncated hairpins, the C-terminal Trp is the edge residue in a well-defined face-to-edge (FtE) aryl/aryl interaction. Longer hairpins and those with six-residue turns retain the reversed "edge-to-face" (EtF) Trp/Trp geometry first observed for the trpzip peptides. Mutational studies suggest that the W-(4-residue turn)-W interaction provides at least 3 kJ/mol of stabilization in excess of that due to the greater beta-propensity of Trp. The pi-cation, and Trp/Gly-H(N) interactions have been defined. The latter can give rise to >3 ppm upfield shifts for the Gly-H(N) in -WX(n)G- units both in turns (n = 2) and at the C-termini (n = 1) of hairpins. Terminal YTG units result in somewhat smaller shifts (extrapolated to 2 ppm for 100% folding). In peptides with both the EtF and FtE W/W interaction geometries, Trp to Tyr mutations indicate that Trp is the preferred "face" residue in aryl/aryl pairings, presumably because of its greater pi basicity.

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AmidesCationsHydrogen BondingIndolesMutant ProteinsPeptidesPoint MutationProtein FoldingProtein StabilityProtein Structure, SecondaryThermodynamicsTransition TemperatureTryptophanAmidesCationsindoleIndolesMutant ProteinsPeptidesTryptophan

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PMID18831035
PMCPMC2656586

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