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Migliore M, Bonvicini A, Tognetti V, Guilhaudis L, Baaden M, Oulyadi H, Joubert L, Ségalas-Milazzo I. Characterization of β-turns by electronic circular dichroism spectroscopy: a coupled molecular dynamics and time-dependent density functional theory computational study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:1611-1623. [PMID: 31894790 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp05776e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Electronic circular dichroism is one of the most used spectroscopic techniques for peptide and protein structural characterization. However, while valuable experimental spectra exist for α-helix, β-sheet and random coil secondary structures, previous studies showed important discrepancies for β-turns, limiting their use as a reference for structural studies. In this paper, we simulated circular dichroism spectra for the best-characterized β-turns in peptides, namely types I, II, I' and II'. In particular, by combining classical molecular dynamics simulations and state-of-the-art quantum time-dependent density functional theory (with the polarizable embedding multiscale model) computations, two common electronic circular dichroism patterns were found for couples of β-turn types (namely, type I/type II' and type II/type I'), at first for a minimal di-peptide model (Ace-Ala-Ala-NHMe), but also for all sequences tested with non-aromatic residues in the central positions. On the other hand, as expected, aromatic substitution causes important perturbations to the previously found ECD patterns. Finally, by applying suitable approximations, these patterns were subsequently rationalized based on the exciton chirality rule. All these results provide useful predictions and pave the way for a possible experimental characterization of β-turns based on circular dichroism spectroscopy.
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- Mattia Migliore
- Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821 Mont St Aignan, Cedex, France.
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- Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821 Mont St Aignan, Cedex, France.
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- Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821 Mont St Aignan, Cedex, France.
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- Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821 Mont St Aignan, Cedex, France.
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS, UPR9080, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, PSL Research University, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821 Mont St Aignan, Cedex, France.
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- Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821 Mont St Aignan, Cedex, France.
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- Normandy Univ., COBRA UMR 6014 & FR 3038, Université de Rouen, INSA Rouen, CNRS, 1 rue Tesnière, 76821 Mont St Aignan, Cedex, France.
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Yokoyama H, Mizutani R, Noguchi S, Hayashida N. Structural and biochemical basis of the formation of isoaspartate in the complementarity-determining region of antibody 64M-5 Fab. Sci Rep 2019; 9:18494. [PMID: 31811216 PMCID: PMC6898713 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54918-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The formation of the isoaspartate (isoAsp) is one of spontaneous degradation processes of proteins, affecting their stability and activity. Here, we report for the first time the crystal structures of an antibody Fab that contains isoAsp in the complementarity-determining region (CDR), along with biochemical studies to detect isoAsp. By comparing the elution profiles of cation-exchange chromatography, it was clarified that the antibody 64M-5 Fab is converted from the normal form to isoAsp form spontaneously and time-dependently under physiological conditions. The isoAsp residue was identified with tryptic peptide mapping, N-terminal sequencing, and the protein isoaspartyl methyltransferase assay. Based on the fluorescence quenching method, the isoAsp form of 64M-5 Fab shows a one order of magnitude lower binding constant for its dinucleotide ligand dT(6-4)T than the normal form. According to the structure of the isoAsp form, the conformation of CDR L1 is changed from the normal form to isoAsp form; the loss of hydrogen bonds involving the Asn28L side-chain, and structural conversion of the β-turn from type I to type II'. The formation of isoAsp leads to a large displacement of the side chain of His27dL, and decreased electrostatic interactions with the phosphate group of dT(6-4)T. Such structural changes should be responsible for the lower affinity of the isoAsp form for dT(6-4)T than the normal form. These findings may provide insight into neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) and related diseases caused by misfolded proteins.
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- Hideshi Yokoyama
- 0000 0001 0660 6861grid.143643.7Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, 2641, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510 Japan
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- 0000 0001 1516 6626grid.265061.6Graduate School of Engineering, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292 Japan
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- 0000 0000 9290 9879grid.265050.4Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, 2-2-1 Miyama, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510 Japan
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- 0000 0001 0660 7960grid.268397.1Division of Molecular Gerontology and Anti-Ageing Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minami-Kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505 Japan
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Freitas DS, Sousa CEA, Parente J, Drogalin A, Gil Fortes A, Cerqueira NMFSA, Alves MJ. (3S,4R)-3,4-Dihydroxy-N-alkyl-l-homoprolines: synthesis and computational mechanistic studies. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:10052-10064. [PMID: 31748775 DOI: 10.1039/c9ob02141h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This is the first synthetic report of (3S,4R)-dihydroxy-N-alkyl-l-homoprolines described so far. 2,4-O-Benzylidene-d-erythrose was obtained from d-glucose with an improved yield, and then transformed into the title (3S,4R)-dihydroxy-N-alkyl-l-homoprolines, in a two-step strategy, with excellent overall yields. Hydrogenolysis of the benzyl group led to the NH congener. The synthesis of final products from 1,4-lactone intermediates was studied by computational means either under acidic or basic conditions. The theoretical mechanism studies fully explain the experimental results: (a) an equilibrium between l-homoprolines and their bicyclic counterparts is established in acids; (b) the equilibrium suffers a complete displacement towards the l-homoproline side in a basic medium.
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- David S Freitas
- Departamento de Química, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.
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Brenner V, Gloaguen E, Mons M. Rationalizing the diversity of amide-amide H-bonding in peptides using the natural bond orbital method. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:24601-24619. [PMID: 31670335 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03825f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis of electron delocalization in a series of capped isolated peptides is used to diagnose amide-amide H-bonding and backbone-induced hyperconjugative interactions, and to rationalize their spectral effects. The sum of the stabilization energies corresponding to the interactions between NBOs that are involved in the H-bonding is demonstrated as an insightful indicator for the H-bond strength. It is then used to decouple the effect of the H-bond distance from that, intrinsic, of the donor/acceptor relative orientation, i.e., the geometrical approach. The diversity of the approaches given by the series of peptides studied enables us to illustrate the crucial importance of the approach when the acceptor is a carbonyl group, and emphasizes that efficient approaches can be achieved despite not matching the usual picture of a proton donor directly facing a lone pair of the proton acceptor, i.e., that encountered in intermolecular H-bonds. The study also illustrates the role of backbone flexibility, partly controlled by backbone-amide hyperconjugative interactions, in influencing the equilibrium structures, in particular by frustrating or enhancing the HB for a given geometrical approach. Finally, the presently used NBO-based HB strength indicator enables a fair prediction of the frequency of the proton donor amide NH stretching mode, but this simple picture is blurred by ubiquitous hyperconjugative effects between the backbone and amide groups, whose magnitude can be comparable to that of the weakest H-bonds.
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- Valérie Brenner
- LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, bât 522, CEA Paris-Saclay, 9119 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Schwartz AC, Jay DW, Parnham S, Giuliano MW. Sequential and Environmental Dependence of Conformation in a Small Opioid Peptide. J Org Chem 2019; 84:13299-13312. [PMID: 31538782 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report the structural characterization of the μ-selective endogenous opioid endomorphin-1 (EM-1) via an array of nuclear magnetic resonance experiments in both aqueous conditions and, for the first time, in isotropic lipid bicelles, which mimic its endogenous environment. Consistent with computationally derived hypotheses, EM-1 is found to significantly populate a compact, turn-like structure in aqueous solution. This structure is only present as a minor species when the peptide is subjected to a lipid environment, in which the presented NMR data suggests that the major conformer of EM-1 lacks internal hydrogen bonds. The interaction of EM-1 with lipid bilayers is characterized by both tryptophan fluorescence and two-dimensional diffusion ordered NMR spectroscopy; these experiments suggest that the interaction with the surface of phospholipid bilayers, operating as a change in bulk solvation, is responsible for the observed conformational rearrangement in EM-1.
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- Alexandra C Schwartz
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Charleston , Charleston , South Carolina 29424 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Charleston , Charleston , South Carolina 29424 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , South Carolina 29425 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Charleston , Charleston , South Carolina 29424 , United States
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Xiao N, Li H, Shafique L, Zhao S, Su X, Zhang Y, Cui K, Liu Q, Shi D. A Novel Pale-Yellow Coat Color of Rabbits Generated via MC1R Mutation With CRISPR/Cas9 System. Front Genet 2019; 10:875. [PMID: 31620174 PMCID: PMC6759607 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Coat color is of great importance in animal breed characteristics; it is not only a significant productive trait but also an indispensable economic trait, especially in the rabbit industry. In the present study, the relationship between melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) genotypes and coat color phenotypes was observed in five rabbit breeds with popular coat colors that are present in China. These breeds comprised the Lianshan black rabbit (BR), Fujian yellow rabbit (YR), New Zealand white rabbit (WR), Gray Giant rabbit (GR), and Checkered Giant rabbit (CR), which were firstly determined, and the results showed that GR had an E allele; WR, CR, and BR had a 6-bp in-frame deletion (c.281_286del6, ED allele); and YR had a 30-bp deletion (c.304_333del30 E allele). To explore the feasibility of obtaining a novel rabbit coat color through the mutation of MC1R with the CRISPR/Cas9 system, two single-guide RNAs (sgRNAs) were designed for the MC1R gene, and the editing efficiency was confirmed by injection of rabbits' zygotes. Unlike the donor rabbits whose coat color was originally black, two novel pale-yellow-coated rabbits were generated in the founders. A total of six novel MC1R gene deletions were identified in the two founder rabbits, in which the longest deletion was more than 700 bp. The histological hematoxylin-and-eosin (H&E) staining results indicated that eumelanin amounts were absent in hair follicles of MC1R-knockout (KO) rabbits, when compared with that of donor BR. In addition, the messenger RNA (mRNA) levels of some key downstream genes in the MC1R pathway were all downregulated in MC1R-KO rabbits compared with BR and YR. These results further indicate that loss-of-function MC1R contributed to blocking the synthesis of eumelanin and created a novel pale-yellow coat color in the MC1R-KO rabbits, and gene editing technology may be a useful tool to generate novel phenotypes in rabbit breeding.
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- Ning Xiao
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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Torres MD, Sothiselvam S, Lu TK, de la Fuente-Nunez C. Peptide Design Principles for Antimicrobial Applications. J Mol Biol 2019; 431:3547-3567. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/22/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Mir FM, Crisma M, Toniolo C, Lubell WD. Isolated α-turn and incipient γ-helix. Chem Sci 2019; 10:6908-6914. [PMID: 31391913 PMCID: PMC6640192 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc01683j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The unique abilities of homo-oligo-adamantyl peptides to adopt α- and γ-turn conformations are demonstrated by X-ray diffraction, and NMR and FT-IR absorption spectroscopies. Assembled by an Ugi multiple component reaction strategy, N α-formyl-adamantyl tripeptide iso-propyl and tert-butyl amides are respectively found to adopt an isolated α-turn and an incipient γ-helix conformation by X-ray diffraction crystallography. The shortest example of a single α-turn with ideal geometry is observed in the crystalline state. In solution both peptides predominantly assume γ-helical structures.
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- Fatemeh M Mir
- Département de Chimie , Université de Montréal , C. P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville , Montréal , Québec , Canada H3C 3J7 .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Padova and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry , Padova Unit , CNR , 35131 Padova , Italy
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Padova and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry , Padova Unit , CNR , 35131 Padova , Italy
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- Département de Chimie , Université de Montréal , C. P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville , Montréal , Québec , Canada H3C 3J7 .
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Fang C, Shang Y, Xu D. A deep dense inception network for protein beta-turn prediction. Proteins 2019; 88:143-151. [PMID: 31294886 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Revised: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Beta-turn prediction is useful in protein function studies and experimental design. Although recent approaches using machine-learning techniques such as support vector machine (SVM), neural networks, and K nearest neighbor have achieved good results for beta-turn prediction, there is still significant room for improvement. As previous predictors utilized features in a sliding window of 4-20 residues to capture interactions among sequentially neighboring residues, such feature engineering may result in incomplete or biased features and neglect interactions among long-range residues. Deep neural networks provide a new opportunity to address these issues. Here, we proposed a deep dense inception network (DeepDIN) for beta-turn prediction, which takes advantage of the state-of-the-art deep neural network design of dense networks and inception networks. A test on a recent BT6376 benchmark data set shows that DeepDIN outperformed the previous best tool BetaTPred3 significantly in both the overall prediction accuracy and the nine-type beta-turn classification accuracy. A tool, called MUFold-BetaTurn, was developed, which is the first beta-turn prediction tool utilizing deep neural networks. The tool can be downloaded at http://dslsrv8.cs.missouri.edu/~cf797/MUFoldBetaTurn/download.html.
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- Chao Fang
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.,Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Mir FM, Crisma M, Toniolo C, Lubell WD. Influence of the C‐terminal substituent on the crystal‐state conformation of Adm peptides. Pept Sci (Hoboken) 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/pep2.24121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Fatemeh M. Mir
- Département de ChimieUniversité de Montréal Montréal Québec Canada
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- Institute of Biomolecular ChemistryPadova Unit Padova Italy
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- Institute of Biomolecular ChemistryPadova Unit Padova Italy
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Padova Padova Italy
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Drouillat B, Peggion C, Biondi B, Wright K, Couty F, Crisma M, Formaggio F, Toniolo C. Heterochiral Ala/(
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ynthesis and conformational study. J Pept Sci 2019; 25:e3165. [DOI: 10.1002/psc.3165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Revised: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Bruno Drouillat
- Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR CNRS 8180University of Versailles St‐Quentin en Yvelines Versailles 78035 France
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry Padova Unit, CNR Padova 35131 Italy
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- Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR CNRS 8180University of Versailles St‐Quentin en Yvelines Versailles 78035 France
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- Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR CNRS 8180University of Versailles St‐Quentin en Yvelines Versailles 78035 France
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry Padova Unit, CNR Padova 35131 Italy
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Padova Padova 35131 Italy
- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry Padova Unit, CNR Padova 35131 Italy
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Padova Padova 35131 Italy
- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry Padova Unit, CNR Padova 35131 Italy
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Zerze GH, Stillinger FH, Debenedetti PG. Effect of heterochiral inversions on the structure of a β-hairpin peptide. Proteins 2019; 87:569-578. [PMID: 30811673 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 02/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We study computationally a family of β-hairpin peptides with systematically introduced chiral inversions, in explicit water, and we investigate the extent to which the backbone structure is able to fold in the presence of heterochiral perturbations. In contrast to the recently investigated case of a helical peptide, we do not find a monotonic change in secondary structure content as a function of the number of L- to D-inversions. The effects of L- to D-inversions are instead found to be highly position-specific. Additionally, in contrast to the helical peptide, some inversions increase the stability of the folded peptide: in such cases, we compute an increase in β-sheet content in the aqueous solution equilibrium ensemble. However, the tertiary structures of the stable (folded) configurations for peptides for which inversions cause an increase in β-sheet content show differences from one another, as well as from the native fold of the nonchirally perturbed β-hairpin. Our results suggest that although some chiral perturbations can increase folding stability, chirally perturbed proteins may still underperform functionally, given the relationship between structure and function.
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- Gül H Zerze
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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Ágoston K. Nojirimycin Based 2,5-Diketopiperazines. SYNTHETIC COMMUN 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2018.1557688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Károly Ágoston
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, RCNS-HAS Magyar, Tudósok Körútja 2, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
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Byrne C, Belnou M, Baulieu E, Lequin O, Jacquot Y. Electronic circular dichroism and nuclear magnetic resonance studies of peptides derived from the FKBP52‐interacting β‐turn of the hERα ligand‐binding domain. Pept Sci (Hoboken) 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/pep2.24113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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- Cillian Byrne
- Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale SupérieurePSL University, CNRS UMR 7203, Laboratoire des Biomolécules Paris France
- Institut Baulieu, Université Paris‐SaclayINSERM UMR 1195, Neuroprotection and Neuroregeneration Le Kremlin Bicêtre France
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- Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale SupérieurePSL University, CNRS UMR 7203, Laboratoire des Biomolécules Paris France
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- Institut Baulieu, Université Paris‐SaclayINSERM UMR 1195, Neuroprotection and Neuroregeneration Le Kremlin Bicêtre France
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- Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale SupérieurePSL University, CNRS UMR 7203, Laboratoire des Biomolécules Paris France
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- Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale SupérieurePSL University, CNRS UMR 7203, Laboratoire des Biomolécules Paris France
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Rose GD. Ramachandran maps for side chains in globular proteins. Proteins 2019; 87:357-364. [PMID: 30629766 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The Ramachandran plot for backbone ϕ,ψ-angles in a blocked monopeptide has played a central role in understanding protein structure. Curiously, a similar analysis for side chain χ-angles has been comparatively neglected. Instead, efforts have focused on compiling various types of side chain libraries extracted from proteins of known structure. Departing from this trend, the following analysis presents backbone-based maps of side chains in blocked monopeptides. As in the original ϕ,ψ-plot, these maps are derived solely from hard-sphere steric repulsion. Remarkably, the side chain biases exhibit marked similarities to corresponding biases seen in high-resolution protein structures. Consequently, some of the entropic cost for side chain localization in proteins is prepaid prior to the onset of folding events because conformational bias is built into the chain at the covalent level. Furthermore, side chain conformations are seen to experience fewer steric restrictions for backbone conformations in either the α or β basins, those map regions where repetitive ϕ,ψ-angles result in α-helices or strands of β-sheet, respectively. Here, these α and β basins are entropically favored for steric reasons alone; a blocked monopeptide is too short to accommodate the peptide hydrogen bonds that stabilize repetitive secondary structure. Thus, despite differing energetics, α/β-basins are favored for both monopeptides and repetitive secondary structure, underpinning an energetically unfrustrated compatibility between these two levels of protein structure.
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- George D Rose
- T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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Nakaji-Hirabayashi T, Fujimoto K, Yoshikawa C, Kitano H. Functional surfaces for efficient differentiation of neural stem/progenitor cells into dopaminergic neurons. J Biomed Mater Res A 2019; 107:860-871. [DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.36602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 12/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Tadashi Nakaji-Hirabayashi
- Department of Applied Chemistry; Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama; Toyama Japan
- Department of Advanced Nanosciences and Biosciences; Graduate School of Innovative Life Sciences, University of Toyama; Toyama Japan
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics; National Institute for Material Science; Ibaraki Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry; Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama; Toyama Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics; National Institute for Material Science; Ibaraki Japan
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- R & D and Head Office, Institute for Polymer-Water Interfaces; Toyama Japan
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Design and structural characterisation of monomeric water-soluble α-helix and β-hairpin peptides: State-of-the-art. Arch Biochem Biophys 2019; 661:149-167. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2018.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Revised: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Giri RS, Mandal B. Unique crystallographic signatures of Boc-Gly-Phe-Phe-OMe and Boc-Gly-Phg-Phe-OMe and their self-association. CrystEngComm 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8ce01723a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The crystal structures and morphology of Boc-Gly-Phe-Phe-OMe (1) and Boc-Gly-Phg-Phe-OMe (2) are reported. While 1 forms a rare open turn conformation, 2 forms a β-sheet conformation.
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- Rajat Subhra Giri
- Department of Chemistry
- Laboratory of Peptide and Amyloid Research
- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Laboratory of Peptide and Amyloid Research
- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- India
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Chennamadhavuni S, Panek JS, Porco JA, Brown LE. Diastereodivergent Synthesis of Chiral Tetrahydropyrrolodiazepinediones via a One-Pot Intramolecular aza-Michael/Lactamization Sequence. J Org Chem 2018; 83:15449-15462. [PMID: 30458107 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A modular and diastereodivergent synthesis of tetrahydro-1 H-pyrrolo[1,2 d]diazepine-(2,5)-diones is presented. The tetrahydropyrrolodiazepinedione scaffold is obtained via a base-mediated three-step isomerization/tandem cyclization of amino acid-coupled homoallylic amino esters. Diastereoselectivity of the process is mediated by the interplay of a kinetic cyclization event and a propensity for thermodynamic epimerization at two labile chiral centers, giving rise to two distinct major diastereomers dependent on starting material stereochemistry and reaction conditions selected. Herein, we present a synthetic and computational study for this tandem process on a variety of amino ester substrates.
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- Spandan Chennamadhavuni
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , 590 Commonwealth Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , 590 Commonwealth Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , 590 Commonwealth Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , 590 Commonwealth Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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Bakir M. X-ray crystallographic, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of a bi-stable di-2-thienyl ketone 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazone (dtkdnph). J Mol Struct 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2018.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Memeo M, Bruschi M, Bergonzi L, Desimoni G, Faita G, Quadrelli P. Cyclopenta[ d]isoxazoline β-Turn Mimics: Synthetic Approach, Turn Driving Force, Scope, and Limitations. ACS OMEGA 2018; 3:13551-13558. [PMID: 31458062 PMCID: PMC6645019 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Model β-turn inducers were prepared from constrained oxazanorbornene aminols. Taking advantage of the starting materials geometry, new diastereoisomeric compounds were synthesized, introducing different amino acidic residues. The products were spectroscopically characterized (VT and NMR titration). Temperature coefficients in dimethyl sulfoxide denote the existence of an intramolecular hydrogen bond. Chiroptical properties disclosed a β-turn arrangement of the synthesized compounds. The fused isoxazoline ring constraints the cyclopentane moiety, stabilizing a boatlike conformation that ensures the turn efficiency but limiting the accessibility to hindered amino acids.
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Drouillat B, Peggion C, Biondi B, Wright K, Couty F, Crisma M, Formaggio F, Toniolo C. A novel peptide conformation: the γ-bend ribbon. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 16:7947-7958. [PMID: 30318540 DOI: 10.1039/c8ob02279h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Unlike the extensively investigated relationship between the peptide β-bend ribbon and its prototypical 310-helix conformation, the corresponding relationship between the narrower γ-bend ribbon and its regular γ-helix counterpart still remains to be studied, as the latter 3D-structures have not yet been experimentally authenticated. In this paper, we describe the results of the first characterization, both in the crystal state and in solution, of the γ-bend ribbon conformation using X-ray diffraction and FT-IR absorption, electronic CD and 2D-NMR spectroscopies applied to an appropriate set of synthetic, homo-chiral, sequential dipeptide oligomers based on (S)-Ala and the known γ-bend inducer, Cα-tetrasubstituted, N-alkylated α-amino acid residue (S)-Cα-methyl-azetidine-carboxylic acid.
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- Bruno Drouillat
- Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR CNRS 8180, University of Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France.
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Fang C, Shang Y, Xu D. Improving Protein Gamma-Turn Prediction Using Inception Capsule Networks. Sci Rep 2018; 8:15741. [PMID: 30356073 PMCID: PMC6200818 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34114-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Protein gamma-turn prediction is useful in protein function studies and experimental design. Several methods for gamma-turn prediction have been developed, but the results were unsatisfactory with Matthew correlation coefficients (MCC) around 0.2–0.4. Hence, it is worthwhile exploring new methods for the prediction. A cutting-edge deep neural network, named Capsule Network (CapsuleNet), provides a new opportunity for gamma-turn prediction. Even when the number of input samples is relatively small, the capsules from CapsuleNet are effective to extract high-level features for classification tasks. Here, we propose a deep inception capsule network for gamma-turn prediction. Its performance on the gamma-turn benchmark GT320 achieved an MCC of 0.45, which significantly outperformed the previous best method with an MCC of 0.38. This is the first gamma-turn prediction method utilizing deep neural networks. Also, to our knowledge, it is the first published bioinformatics application utilizing capsule network, which will provide a useful example for the community. Executable and source code can be download at http://dslsrv8.cs.missouri.edu/~cf797/MUFoldGammaTurn/download.html.
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- Chao Fang
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA. .,Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA.
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Mironov V, Alexeev Y, Mulligan VK, Fedorov DG. A systematic study of minima in alanine dipeptide. J Comput Chem 2018; 40:297-309. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Vladimir Mironov
- Department of Chemistry Lomonosov Moscow State University Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow 119991 Russia
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- Argonne National Laboratory Computational Science Division Argonne Illinois 60439
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Washington, Institute for Protein Design Seattle Washington 98195
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- CD‐FMat National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Central 2, Umezono 1‐1‐1, Tsukuba 305‐8568 Japan
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Douchez A, Geranurimi A, Lubell WD. Applications of γ,δ-Unsaturated Ketones Synthesized by Copper-Catalyzed Cascade Addition of Vinyl Grignard Reagents to Esters. Acc Chem Res 2018; 51:2574-2588. [PMID: 30289682 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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γ,δ-Unsaturated ketones, so-called homoallylic ketones, have served as versatile building blocks for the synthesis of a variety of heterocycles, carbocycles, natural products, and reactive intermediates. Procured by a variety of processes, including conjugate addition of vinyl organometallic reagents to unsaturated ketones, allylation of silyl enol ethers, and rearrangements, homoallylic ketones are often synthesized by step-intensive methods. The cascade addition of 2 equiv of vinyl Grignard reagent to a carboxylate was reported by the Lubell laboratory in 2003 to give effective access to homoallylic ketones from a variety of aromatic, aliphatic, and α-amino methyl esters. Employing readily accessible vinyl magnesium halides in the presence of a catalytic amount of copper salt, this cascade reaction provides high yields of homoallylic ketones with minimal side product by a process featuring the assembly and collapse of a tetrahedral intermediate with expulsion of alkoxide ion, followed by conjugate addition to the resulting enone. Application of the cascade reaction to the synthesis of various homoallylic ketones has provided versatile building blocks for the synthesis of targets for different applications. For example, by employing (hetero)aryl di- and tricarboxylates as precursors, copper-catalyzed cascade additions have provided donor-acceptor and star-shaped monomers for optical-electronic materials. Amino ester starting materials have given homoallylic ketones for the synthesis of various peptidomimetics, including heteroarylalanines, hydroxyethylene isoesters, and diazepinone turn mimics. Moreover, anthranilate has served as building block to prepare various pyrrole, quinoline, benzodiazepine, and benzotriazepine heterocyles. In addition, cascade additions on hydroxyprolinates have given access to bipyrrole precursors of the prodigiosin family of natural products. In the interest to highlight the utility of the copper-catalyzed cascade addition of vinyl Grignard reagents to carboxylates, this Account provides details on the broad scope of substrates that deliver homoallylic ketone products as well as an overview of the wide range of applications in which this method may impact including materials and peptide science, heterocycle and natural product synthesis, and medicinal chemistry.
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- Antoine Douchez
- Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal H3C 3J7, Canada
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Conformational and dynamical basis for cross-reactivity observed between anti HIV-1 protease antibody with protease and an epitope peptide from it. Int J Biol Macromol 2018; 118:1696-1707. [PMID: 29990556 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2018] [Revised: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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F11.2.32 is a monoclonal antibody raised against HIV-1 protease and it inhibits protease activity. While the structure of the epitope peptide in complex with the antibody is known, how protease interacts with the antibody is not known. In this study, we model the conformational features of the free and bound epitope peptide and protease-antibody interactions. We find through our simulations, that the free epitope peptide P36-46 samples conformations akin to the bound conformation of the peptide in complex with the Ab, with a β-turn conformation sampled by the 38LPGR41 sequence highlighting the role of inherent conformational preferences of the peptide. Further, to determine the interactions present between the protease and antibody, we docked the protease in its conformation observed in the crystal structure, onto the antibody and simulated the dynamics of the complex in explicit water. We have identified the key residues involved in hydrogen-bond interactions and salt-bridges in Ag-Ab complex and examined the role of CDR flexibility in binding different conformations of the same epitope sequence in peptide and protein antigens. Thus, our results provide the basis for understanding the cross-reactivity observed between the antibody with protease and the epitope peptide from it.
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Thirumal Kumar D, Jerushah Emerald L, George Priya Doss C, Sneha P, Siva R, Charles Emmanuel Jebaraj W, Zayed H. Computational approach to unravel the impact of missense mutations of proteins (D2HGDH and IDH2) causing D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria 2. Metab Brain Dis 2018; 33:1699-1710. [PMID: 29987523 DOI: 10.1007/s11011-018-0278-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The 2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria (2-HGA) is a rare neurometabolic disorder that leads to the development of brain damage. It is classified into three categories: D-2-HGA, L-2-HGA, and combined D,L-2-HGA. The D-2-HGA includes two subtypes: type I and type II caused by the mutations in D2HGDH and IDH2 proteins, respectively. In this study, we studied six mutations, four in the D2HGDH (I147S, D375Y, N439D, and V444A) and two in the IDH2 proteins (R140G, R140Q). We performed in silico analysis to investigate the pathogenicity and stability changes of the mutant proteins using pathogenicity (PANTHER, PhD-SNP, SIFT, SNAP, and META-SNP) and stability (i-Mutant, MUpro, and iStable) predictors. All the mutations of both D2HGDH and IDH2 proteins were predicted as disease causing except V444A, which was predicted as neutral by SIFT. All the mutants were also predicted to be destabilizing the protein except the mutants D375Y and N439D. DSSP plugin of the PyMOL and Molecular Dynamics Simulations (MDS) were used to study the structural changes in the mutant proteins. In the case of D2HGDH protein, the mutations I147S and V444A that are positioned in the beta sheet region exhibited higher Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD), decrease in compactness and number of intramolecular hydrogen bonds compared to the mutations N439D and D375Y that are positioned in the turn and loop region, respectively. While the mutants R140Q and R140QG that are positioned in the alpha helix region of the protein. MDS results revealed the mutation R140Q to be more destabilizing (higher RMSD values, decrease in compactness and number of intramolecular hydrogen bonds) compared to the mutation R140G of the IDH2 protein. This study is expected to serve as a platform for drug development against 2-HGA and pave the way for more accurate variant assessment and classification for patients with genetic diseases.
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- D Thirumal Kumar
- Department of Integrative Biology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India
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- Department of Integrative Biology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India
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- Department of Integrative Biology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India.
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- Department of Integrative Biology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India
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- Department of Integrative Biology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India
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- Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Technology and Research, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600116, India
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
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Cis/trans isomerization of proline peptide bonds in the backbone of cyclic disulfide‐bridged peptides. Pept Sci (Hoboken) 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/pep2.24088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Effect of triphenylphosphonium moiety on spatial structure and biointeractions of stereochemical variants of YRFK motif. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2018; 48:25-34. [PMID: 30105402 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-018-1327-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Chemical modification of therapeutic peptides is an important approach to improving their physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. The triphenylphosphonium (TPP) cation has proved to be a powerful modifier; however, its effects on peptide structure and activity remain uncharacterized. In this study, cytoprotective tetrapeptides based on the YRFK opioid motif with L- or D-Arg residues were linked to (triphenylphosphonio)carboxylic acids with ethylene and pentylene spacers (TPP-3 and TPP-6 groups, respectively). The three-dimensional structure of the oligopeptides was analyzed by NMR spectroscopy, computational methods and circular dichroism (CD). A more compact and bent structure with segregated aromatic groups was revealed for the D-arginine-containing tetrapeptide and its TPP-6 derivative. The TPP moiety caused structure-organizing effect on the tetrapeptides, resulting in transition from random coil to β-sheet structures, and decreased the peptide backbone flexibility up to ten times. The TPP-3-modified oligopeptide with the lowest RMSD value (ca. 0.05 Å) was characterized by intrapeptide hydrophobic interactions between the TPP and side groups of Tyr and Phe residues accompanied by strong CD induction. The TPP-6-modified oligopeptides showed enhanced ability to form intermolecular associates and disturb liposomal membranes. The relationship between the spatial structure of the oligopeptides and some of their biologically relevant interactions were additionally revealed and are discussed.
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Reddy D, Bhattacharya S, Jani V, Sonavane U, Joshi R, Gupta S. Biochemical and Biophysical Characterisation of Higher Oligomeric Structure of Rat Nucleosome Assembly Protein 1. Protein J 2018; 37:58-69. [PMID: 29209909 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-017-9751-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Nucleosome assembly protein 1 (NAP1) is a histone chaperone that exchanges histone H2A-H2B dimer from chromatin templates. Studies with yeast NAP1 (yNAP1) have revealed its existence as multiple oligomeric species in solution. Here, rat NAP1 (rNAP1), which is 98% identical to the human NAP1 (hNAP1) was used as a model to characterize the oligomeric structures of this protein in higher eukaryotes. Gel filtration chromatography and Dynamic light scattering of recombinant rNAP1 indicated that the protein exists as a complex mixture of multimeric species even at 500 mM ionic strength. The solution-state complexity remains unchanged even at higher ionic strengths. Equilibrium unfolding (ΔG 14.6 kcal mol- 1) shows that rNAP1, both dimeric and oligomeric, follow the two-state model of unfolding with no detectable intermediates. Homology modelling suggests that rat and yeast NAP1 share an overall similar structure with conserved domains. However, dissimilar substitutions like threonine and lysine with glycine in the β-hairpin involved in oligomerization, possibly leads to the observed differences in the oligomerization propensity of the two proteins. Molecular dynamic simulation (MDS) of the two structures also revealed that rNAP1 dimer is more stable owing to the extensive hydrogen bonding in comparison to yNAP1. Further, in vitro kinase assay showed that the phosphorylation of rNAP1 favors oligomerization with no effect on its histone binding capacity. Our results clearly suggest that there are differences in the in-solution behavior of rNAP1 compared to yNAP1 which may have in vivo functional implications for the regulation of these complexes during chromatin assembly and rearrangement.
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- Divya Reddy
- Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology Group, Gupta Lab, Cancer Research Institute, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, 410210, India.,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400085, India
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- Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology Group, Gupta Lab, Cancer Research Institute, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, 410210, India.,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400085, India.,Workman Lab, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 E 50th Street, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA
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- Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), University of Pune Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, 411007, India
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- Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), University of Pune Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, 411007, India
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- Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), University of Pune Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, 411007, India
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- Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology Group, Gupta Lab, Cancer Research Institute, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, 410210, India. .,Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400085, India.
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Tight Turns of Outer Membrane Proteins: An Analysis of Sequence, Structure, and Hydrogen Bonding. J Mol Biol 2018; 430:3251-3265. [PMID: 29944853 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Revised: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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As a structural class, tight turns can control molecular recognition, enzymatic activity, and nucleation of folding. They have been extensively characterized in soluble proteins but have not been characterized in outer membrane proteins (OMPs), where they also support critical functions. We clustered the 4 to 6 residue tight turns of 110 OMPs to characterize the phi/psi angles, sequence, and hydrogen bonding of these structures. We find significant differences between reports of soluble protein tight turns and OMP tight turns. Since OMP strands are less twisted than soluble strands, they favor different turn structures types. Moreover, the membrane localization of OMPs yields different sequence hallmarks for their tight turns relative to soluble protein turns. We also characterize the differences in phi/psi angles, sequence, and hydrogen bonding between OMP extracellular loops and OMP periplasmic turns. As previously noted, the extracellular loops tend to be much longer than the periplasmic turns. We find that this difference in length is due to the broader distribution of lengths of the extracellular loops not a large difference in the median length. Extracellular loops also tend to have more charged residues as predicted by the charge-out rule. Finally, in all OMP tight turns, hydrogen bonding between the side chain and backbone 2 to 4 residues away from that side chain plays an important role. These bonds preferentially use an Asp, Asn, Ser, or Thr residue in a beta or pro phi/psi conformation. We anticipate that this study will be applicable to future design and structure prediction of OMPs.
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Appavoo SD, Kaji T, Frost JR, Scully CCG, Yudin AK. Development of Endocyclic Control Elements for Peptide Macrocycles. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:8763-8770. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b04412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Solomon D. Appavoo
- Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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Zhang Y, Zai-Rose V, Price CJ, Ezzell NA, Bidwell GL, Correia JJ, Fitzkee NC. Modeling the Early Stages of Phase Separation in Disordered Elastin-like Proteins. Biophys J 2018; 114:1563-1578. [PMID: 29642027 PMCID: PMC5954566 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.01.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Revised: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Elastin-like proteins (ELPs) are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation reversibly above a concentration-dependent transition temperature. Previous studies suggested that, as temperature increases, ELPs experience an increased propensity for type II β-turns. However, how the ELPs behave below the phase transition temperature itself is still elusive. Here, we investigate the importance of β-turn formation during the early stages of ELP self-association. We examined the behavior of two ELPs, a 150-repeat construct that had been investigated previously (ELP[V5G3A2-150] as well as a new 40-repeat construct (ELP40) suitable for nuclear magnetic resonance measurements. Structural analysis of ELP40 reveals a disordered conformation, and chemical shifts throughout the sequence are insensitive to changes in temperature over 20°C. However, a low population of β-turn conformation cannot be ruled out based on chemical shifts alone. To examine the structural consequences of β-turns in ELPs, a series of structural ensembles of ELP[V5G3A2-150] were generated, incorporating differing amounts of β-turn bias throughout the chain. To mimic the early stages of the phase change, two monomers were paired, assuming preferential interaction at β-turn regions. This approach was justified by the observation that buried hydrophobic turns are commonly observed to interact in the Protein Data Bank. After dimerization, the ensemble-averaged hydrodynamic properties were calculated for each degree of β-turn bias, and the results were compared with analytical ultracentrifugation experiments at various temperatures. We find that the temperature dependence of the sedimentation coefficient (s20,wo) can be reproduced by increasing the β-turn content in the structural ensemble. This analysis allows us to estimate the presence of β-turns and weak associations under experimental conditions. Because disordered proteins frequently exhibit weak biases in secondary structure propensity, these experimentally-driven ensemble calculations may complement existing methods for modeling disordered proteins generally.
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- Yue Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi
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- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi.
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Huang KJ, Huang YC, Lin YA. Synthesis of Histidine-Containing Oligopeptides via Histidine-Promoted Peptide Ligation. Chem Asian J 2018; 13:400-403. [PMID: 29345421 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201701802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2017] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Histidine-containing peptides are valuable therapeutic agents for a treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the synthesis of histidine-containing peptides is not trivial due to the potential of imidazole sidechain of histidine to act as a nucleophile if unprotected. A peptide ligation method utilizing the imidazole sidechain of histidine has been developed. The key imidazolate intermediate that acts as an internal acyl transfer catalyst during ligation is generated by deprotonation. Transesterification with amino acids or peptides tethered with C-terminal thioester followed by N→N acyl shifts led to the final ligated products. A range of histidine-containing dipeptides could be synthesized in moderate to good yields via this method without protecting the imidazole sidechain. The protocol was further extended to tripeptide synthesis via a long-range N→N acyl transfer, and tetrapeptide synthesis.
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- Kai-Jin Huang
- Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70 Lienhai Rd., Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70 Lienhai Rd., Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70 Lienhai Rd., Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan
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Lin H, Jiang Y, Hu K, Zhang Q, He C, Wang T, Li Z. An in-tether sulfilimine chiral center induces β-turn conformation in short peptides. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 14:9993-9999. [PMID: 27722542 DOI: 10.1039/c6ob01805j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A sulfilimine chiral center in the tether at i, i + 3 positions of short peptides was systematically studied to elucidate the chirality-driven conformational changes. A rare and unexpected type III β-turn structure was induced in short peptides by an in-tether chiral center, supported by circular dichroism spectroscopy, NMR and X-ray crystallography.
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- Huacan Lin
- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China.
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- Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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Stamatelopoulou E, Agriopoulou S, Dourtoglou E, Chatzilazarou A, Drosou F, Marinea M, Dourtoglou V. Diketopiperazines in wines. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/09571264.2018.1433137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Eygenia Stamatelopoulou
- Department of Food Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece
- Department of Oenology and Beverage Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Food Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece
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- Department of Oenology and Beverage Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Oenology and Beverage Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Oenology and Beverage Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Oenology and Beverage Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Oenology and Beverage Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Ota Y, Miyamura S, Araki M, Itoh Y, Yasuda S, Masuda M, Taniguchi T, Sowa Y, Sakai T, Itami K, Yamaguchi J, Suzuki T. Design, synthesis and evaluation of γ-turn mimetics as LSD1-selective inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem 2018; 26:775-785. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2017.12.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Revised: 12/25/2017] [Accepted: 12/28/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Williams TM, Sable R, Singh S, Vicente MGH, Jois S. Peptide ligands for targeting the extracellular domain of EGFR: Comparison between linear and cyclic peptides. Chem Biol Drug Des 2018; 91:605-619. [PMID: 29052959 PMCID: PMC5775921 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.13125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Revised: 07/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common solid internal malignancy among cancers. Early detection of cancer is key to increasing the survival rate of colorectal cancer patients. Overexpression of the EGFR protein is associated with CRC. We have designed a series of peptides that are highly specific for the extracellular domain of EGFR, based on our earlier studies on linear peptides. The previously reported linear peptide LARLLT, known to bind to EGFR, was modified with the goals of increasing its stability and its specificity toward EGFR. Peptide modifications, including D-amino acid substitution, cyclization, and chain reversal, were investigated. In addition, to facilitate labeling of the peptide with a fluorescent dye, an additional lysine residue was introduced onto the linear (KLARLLT) and cyclic peptides cyclo(KLARLLT) (Cyclo.L1). The lysine residue was also converted into an azide group in both a linear and reversed cyclic peptide sequences cyclo(K(N3)larllt) (Cyclo.L1.1) to allow for subsequent "click" conjugation. The cyclic peptides showed enhanced binding to EGFR by SPR. NMR and molecular modeling studies suggest that the peptides acquire a β-turn structure in solution. In vitro stability studies in human serum show that the cyclic peptide is more stable than the linear peptide.
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- Tyrslai M. Williams
- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA 70803, USA
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- Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe LA 71201, USA
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- Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe LA 71201, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA 70803, USA
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- Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe LA 71201, USA
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Hossain MU, Omar TM, Oany AR, Kibria KMK, Shibly AZ, Moniruzzaman M, Ali SR, Islam MM. Design of peptide-based epitope vaccine and further binding site scrutiny led to groundswell in drug discovery against Lassa virus. 3 Biotech 2018; 8:81. [PMID: 29430345 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-018-1106-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 01/07/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Lassa virus (LASV) is responsible for an acute viral hemorrhagic fever known as Lassa fever. Sequence analyses of LASV proteome identified the most immunogenic protein that led to predict both T-cell and B-cell epitopes and further target and binding site depiction could allow novel drug findings for drug discovery field against this virus. To induce both humoral and cell-mediated immunity peptide sequence SSNLYKGVY, conserved region 41-49 amino acids were found as the most potential B-cell and T-cell epitopes, respectively. The peptide sequence might intermingle with 17 HLA-I and 16 HLA-II molecules, also cover 49.15-96.82% population coverage within the common people of different countries where Lassa virus is endemic. To ensure the binding affinity to both HLA-I and HLA-II molecules were employed in docking simulation with suggested epitope sequence. Further the predicted 3D structure of the most immunogenic protein was analyzed to reveal out the binding site for the drug design against Lassa Virus. Herein, sequence analyses of proteome identified the most immunogenic protein that led to predict both T-cell and B-cell epitopes and further target and binding site depiction could allow novel drug findings for drug discovery field against this virus.
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Bouchet A, Klyne J, Ishiuchi SI, Dopfer O, Fujii M, Zehnacker A. Stereochemistry-dependent structure of hydrogen-bonded protonated dimers: the case of 1-amino-2-indanol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:12430-12443. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00787j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Stereochemistry effects on the structure of molecular aggregates are studied in the prototypical 1-amino-2-indanol. Conformer-selective IR-UV double resonance spectroscopy reveals how stereochemistry shapes its dimers.
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- Aude Bouchet
- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
- Institute of Innovative Research
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama
- Japan
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Berlin
- Germany
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
- Institute of Innovative Research
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama
- Japan
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Berlin
- Germany
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
- Institute of Innovative Research
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama
- Japan
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- F-91405 Orsay
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Biondi B, Peggion C, De Zotti M, Pignaffo C, Dalzini A, Bortolus M, Oancea S, Hilma G, Bortolotti A, Stella L, Pedersen JZ, Syryamina VN, Tsvetkov YD, Dzuba SA, Toniolo C, Formaggio F. Conformational properties, membrane interaction, and antibacterial activity of the peptaibiotic chalciporin A: Multitechnique spectroscopic and biophysical investigations on the natural compound and labeled analogs. Biopolymers 2017; 110. [PMID: 29127716 DOI: 10.1002/bip.23083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Revised: 10/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/15/2017] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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In this work, an extensive set of spectroscopic and biophysical techniques (including FT-IR absorption, CD, 2D-NMR, fluorescence, and CW/PELDOR EPR) was used to study the conformational preferences, membrane interaction, and bioactivity properties of the naturally occurring synthetic 14-mer peptaibiotic chalciporin A, characterized by a relatively low (≈20%), uncommon proportion of the strongly helicogenic Aib residue. In addition to the unlabeled peptide, we gained in-depth information from the study of two labeled analogs, characterized by one or two residues of the helicogenic, nitroxyl radical-containing TOAC. All three compounds were prepared using the SPPS methodology, which was carefully modified in the course of the syntheses of TOAC-labeled analogs in view of the poorly reactive α-amino function of this very bulky residue and the specific requirements of its free-radical side chain. Despite its potentially high flexibility, our results point to a predominant, partly amphiphilic, α-helical conformation for this peptaibiotic. Therefore, not surprisingly, we found an effective membrane affinity and a remarkable penetration propensity. However, chalciporin A exhibits a selectivity in its antibacterial activity not in agreement with that typical of the other members of this peptide class.
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- Barbara Biondi
- Institute of Biomolecular, Chemistry, Padova Unit, CNR, Padova, 35131, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, 35131, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, 35131, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, 35131, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, 35131, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, 35131, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences and Food Engineering, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, 550012, Romania
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- Department of Medicine, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, 550012, Romania
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- Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 00133, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 00133, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 00133, Italy
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- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Biomolecular, Chemistry, Padova Unit, CNR, Padova, 35131, Italy
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, 35131, Italy
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- Institute of Biomolecular, Chemistry, Padova Unit, CNR, Padova, 35131, Italy
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, 35131, Italy
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Adamska-Bartłomiejczyk A, Borics A, Tömböly C, Dvorácskó S, Lisowski M, Kluczyk A, Wołczański G, Piekielna-Ciesielska J, Janecka A. Synthesis, receptor binding studies, optical spectroscopic and in silico structural characterization of morphiceptin analogs with cis-4-amino-L-proline residues. J Pept Sci 2017; 23:864-870. [PMID: 29110363 DOI: 10.1002/psc.3050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Three novel morphiceptin analogs, in which Pro in position 2 and/or 4 was replaced by cis-4-aminoproline connected with the preceding amino acid through the primary amino group, were synthesized. The opioid receptor affinities, functional assay results, enzymatic degradation studies and experimental and in silico structural analysis of such analogs are presented. Copyright © 2017 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Anna Adamska-Bartłomiejczyk
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Mazowiecka 6/8, 92-215, Lodz, Poland
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- Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, F. Joliot-Curie 14, 50-383, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, F. Joliot-Curie 14, 50-383, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, F. Joliot-Curie 14, 50-383, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Mazowiecka 6/8, 92-215, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Mazowiecka 6/8, 92-215, Lodz, Poland
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De Zotti M, Wright K, d’Aboville E, Toffoletti A, Toniolo C, Longhi G, Mazzeo G, Abbate S, Formaggio F. Synthesis of Intrinsically Blue-Colored bis-Nitronyl Nitroxide Peptidomimetic Templates and Their Conformational Preferences as Revealed by a Combined Spectroscopic Analysis. J Org Chem 2017; 82:10033-10042. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b01498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Marta De Zotti
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Institute
Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR 8180, University of Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
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- Institute
Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR 8180, University of Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
- ICB,
Padova Unit, CNR, Department of Chemistry, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department
of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Department
of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Department
of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
- ICB,
Padova Unit, CNR, Department of Chemistry, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
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Gupta P, Dash PK. Molecular details of secretory phospholipase A 2 from flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) provide insight into its structure and function. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11080. [PMID: 28894144 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-109699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 05/29/2023] Open
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Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) are low molecular weight proteins (12-18 kDa) involved in a suite of plant cellular processes imparting growth and development. With myriad roles in physiological and biochemical processes in plants, detailed analysis of sPLA2 in flax/linseed is meagre. The present work, first in flax, embodies cloning, expression, purification and molecular characterisation of two distinct sPLA2s (I and II) from flax. PLA2 activity of the cloned sPLA2s were biochemically assayed authenticating them as bona fide phospholipase A2. Physiochemical properties of both the sPLA2s revealed they are thermostable proteins requiring di-valent cations for optimum activity.While, structural analysis of both the proteins revealed deviations in the amino acid sequence at C- & N-terminal regions; hydropathic study revealed LusPLA2I as a hydrophobic protein and LusPLA2II as a hydrophilic protein. Structural analysis of flax sPLA2s revealed that secondary structure of both the proteins are dominated by α-helix followed by random coils. Modular superimposition of LusPLA2 isoforms with rice sPLA2 confirmed monomeric structural preservation among plant phospholipase A2 and provided insight into structure of folded flax sPLA2s.
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- Payal Gupta
- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India.
- Department of Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, Thanesar, 136119, India.
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India.
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Gupta P, Dash PK. Molecular details of secretory phospholipase A 2 from flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) provide insight into its structure and function. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11080. [PMID: 28894144 PMCID: PMC5593939 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10969-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) are low molecular weight proteins (12-18 kDa) involved in a suite of plant cellular processes imparting growth and development. With myriad roles in physiological and biochemical processes in plants, detailed analysis of sPLA2 in flax/linseed is meagre. The present work, first in flax, embodies cloning, expression, purification and molecular characterisation of two distinct sPLA2s (I and II) from flax. PLA2 activity of the cloned sPLA2s were biochemically assayed authenticating them as bona fide phospholipase A2. Physiochemical properties of both the sPLA2s revealed they are thermostable proteins requiring di-valent cations for optimum activity.While, structural analysis of both the proteins revealed deviations in the amino acid sequence at C- & N-terminal regions; hydropathic study revealed LusPLA2I as a hydrophobic protein and LusPLA2II as a hydrophilic protein. Structural analysis of flax sPLA2s revealed that secondary structure of both the proteins are dominated by α-helix followed by random coils. Modular superimposition of LusPLA2 isoforms with rice sPLA2 confirmed monomeric structural preservation among plant phospholipase A2 and provided insight into structure of folded flax sPLA2s.
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- Payal Gupta
- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India.
- Department of Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, Thanesar, 136119, India.
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India.
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Harner MJ, Mueller L, Robbins KJ, Reily MD. NMR in drug design. Arch Biochem Biophys 2017; 628:132-147. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2017.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2017] [Revised: 06/02/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Bucci R, Bonetti A, Clerici F, Contini A, Nava D, Pellegrino S, Tessaro D, Gelmi ML. Tandem Tetrahydroisoquinoline-4-carboxylic Acid/β-Alanine as a New Construct Able To Induce a Flexible Turn. Chemistry 2017; 23:10822-10831. [PMID: 28467649 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Tetrahydroisoquinoline-4-carboxylic acid, a constrained β2 -amino acid named β-TIC, was synthesised for the first time in enantiopure form. The biocatalytic route applied herein represents one of the few successful examples of enzymatic resolution of β2 -amino acids. Model tetrapeptides, namely, Fmoc-l-Ala-β-TIC-β-Ala-l-Val-OBn (Fmoc=fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl, Bn=benzyl), containing both isomers of β-TIC, were prepared. Both computational and NMR spectroscopy studies were performed. A reverse-turn conformation was observed in the case of (R)-β-TIC enantiomer that was obtained in 99 % enantiomeric excess by enzymatic resolution. The β-TIC/β-Ala construct represents the first example of a flexible turn mimetic containing a cyclic and an acyclic β-amino acid. Furthermore, the presence of an aromatic ring of β-TIC could facilitate non-covalent interactions to increase the potential of this scaffold for the preparation of protein-protein interaction modulators.
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- Raffaella Bucci
- DISFARM, Sezione di Chimica Generale e Organica "A. Marchesini", Università degli Studi Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- DISFARM, Sezione di Chimica Generale e Organica "A. Marchesini", Università degli Studi Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- DISFARM, Sezione di Chimica Generale e Organica "A. Marchesini", Università degli Studi Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- DISFARM, Sezione di Chimica Generale e Organica "A. Marchesini", Università degli Studi Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- DISFARM, Sezione di Chimica Generale e Organica "A. Marchesini", Università degli Studi Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- DISFARM, Sezione di Chimica Generale e Organica "A. Marchesini", Università degli Studi Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and, Chemical Engineering "G. Natta", Politecnico di Milano, p.za L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- DISFARM, Sezione di Chimica Generale e Organica "A. Marchesini", Università degli Studi Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133, Milano, Italy
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Kovačević M, Kodrin I, Roca S, Molčanov K, Shen Y, Adhikari B, Kraatz H, Barišić L. Helically Chiral Peptides That Contain Ferrocene‐1,1′‐diamine Scaffolds as a Turn Inducer. Chemistry 2017; 23:10372-10395. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Monika Kovačević
- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryFaculty of Food Technology and BiotechnologyUniversity of Zagreb Pierottijeva 6 Zagreb Croatia
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- Department of ChemistryFaculty of ScienceUniversity of Zagreb Horvatovac 102a Zagreb Croatia
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- NMR CentreRuđer Bošković Institute Bijenička cesta 54 Zagreb Croatia
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- Division of Physical ChemistryRuđer Bošković Institute Bijenička cesta 54 Zagreb Croatia
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- Department of Physical and Environmental SciencesUniversity of Toronto 1265 Military Trail Toronto M1C 1 A4 Canada
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- Department of Chemical SciencesIndian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Knowledge City, Sector 81, S. A. S. Nagar, Manauli PO Punjab 140306 India
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- Department of Physical and Environmental SciencesUniversity of Toronto 1265 Military Trail Toronto M1C 1 A4 Canada
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryFaculty of Food Technology and BiotechnologyUniversity of Zagreb Pierottijeva 6 Zagreb Croatia
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Marafon G, Menegazzo I, De Zotti M, Crisma M, Toniolo C, Moretto A. Tuning morphological architectures generated through living supramolecular assembly of a helical foldamer end-capped with two complementary nucleobases. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:4231-4240. [PMID: 28509927 DOI: 10.1039/c7sm00764g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Two appropriately functionalized nucleobases, thymine and adenine, have been covalently linked at the N- and C-termini, respectively, of two α-aminoisobutyric acid-rich helical peptide foldamers, aiming at driving self-assembly through complementary recognition. A crystal-state analysis (by X-ray diffraction) on the shorter, achiral foldamer 1 unambiguously shows that adeninethymine base pairing, through Watson-Crick intermolecular H-bonding, does take place between either end of each peptide molecule. In the crystals, π-stacking between base pairs is also observed. Evidence for time-dependent foldameroldamer associations for the longer, chiral foldamer 2 in solution is provided by circular dichroism measurements. The self-assembly of foldamer 2, through living supramolecular polymerization, eventually leads to the formation of twisted fibers. Such a supramolecular organization can be affected by addition of either pristine adenine or thymine, that acts as a "terminator" by selectively matching a pairing nucleobase at one end of the foldamer. The co-assembly of foldamer 2 with a porphyrin-derivatized thymine, under appropriate experimental conditions, leads to the formation of vesicles which, in turn, can be converted to the fiber morphology by changing the environmental polarity. Conversely, dendrimeric, star polymer-like microstructures are generated when the supramolecular assembly of foldamer 2 is seeded by adenine-capped gold nanoparticles.
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- Giulia Marafon
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
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Pal S, Ghosh U, Singh G, Alam F, Singh S, Chopra S, Sinha S, Ampapathi RS, Chakraborty TK. Synthesis, Conformational Studies and Biological Profiles of Tetrahydrofuran Amino-Acid-Containing Cationic Antitubercular Peptides. ASIAN J ORG CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201700183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Sudip Pal
- Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
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- Department of Organic Chemistry; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore 560012 India
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- NMR Research Centre, Division of SAIF; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research; New Delhi 110001 India
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- NMR Research Centre, Division of SAIF; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research; New Delhi 110001 India
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- Biochemistry Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
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- Microbiology Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
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- Biochemistry Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
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- NMR Research Centre, Division of SAIF; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research; New Delhi 110001 India
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- Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow 226031 India
- Department of Organic Chemistry; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore 560012 India
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