Probing Helix Formation in Unsolvated Peptides
- 9 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 125 (35), 10740-10747
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0300362
Abstract
Ion mobility measurements have been used to examine helix formation in unsolvated glycine-based peptides containing three alanine residues. Nine sequence isomers of Ac-[12G3A]K+H+ were studied (Ac = acetyl, G = glycine, A = alanine, and K = lysine). The amount of helix present for each peptide was examined using two metrics, and it is strongly dependent on the proximity and the location of the alanine residues. Peptides with three adjacent alanines have the highest helix abundances, and those with well-separated alanines have the lowest. The helix abundances for most of the peptides can be fit reasonably well using a modified Lifson−Roig theory. However, Lifson−Roig theory fails to account for several key features of the experimental results. The most likely explanation for the correlation between helix abundances and the number of adjacent alanines is that neighboring alanines promote helix nucleation.Keywords
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