Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005-01-19

Intrinsic folding of small peptide chains: spectroscopic evidence for the formation of beta-turns in the gas phase.

Wutharath Chin, Jean-Pierre Dognon, François Piuzzi, Benjamin Tardivel, Iliana Dimicoli, Michel Mons

文献索引：J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127(2) , 707-12, (2005)

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摘要

Laser desorption of model peptides coupled to laser spectroscopic techniques enables the gas-phase observation of genuine secondary structures of biology. Spectroscopic evidence for the formation of beta-turns in gas-phase peptide chains containing glycine and phenylalanine residues establishes the intrinsic stability of these forms and their ability to compete with other stable structures. The precise characterization of local minima on the potential energy surface from IR spectroscopy constitutes an acute assessment for the state-of-the-art quantum mechanical calculations also presented. The observation of different types of beta-turns depending upon the residue order within the sequence is found to be consistent with the residue propensities in beta-turns of proteins, which suggests that the prevalence of glycine in type II and II' turns stems essentially from an energetic origin, already at play under isolated conditions.