Entrapment of a Water Wire in a Hydrophobic Peptide Channel with an Aromatic Lining
- 5 June 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 115 (29), 9236-9243
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp200462h
Abstract
A one-dimensional water wire has been characterized by X-ray diffraction in single crystals of the tripeptide Ac-Phe-Pro-Trp-OMe. Crystals in the hexagonal space group P65 reveal a central hydrophobic channel lined by aromatic residues which entraps an approximately linear array of hydrogen bonded water molecules. The absence of any significant van der Waals contact with the channel walls suggests that the dominant interaction between the “water wire” and “peptide nanotube” is electrostatic in origin. An energy difference of 16 kJmol–1 is estimated for the distinct orientations of the water wire dipole with respect to the macrodipole of the peptide nanotube. The structural model suggests that Grotthuss type proton conduction may, through constricted hydrophobic channels, be facilitated by concerted, rotational reorientation of water molecules.Keywords
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