Abe A, Hiraga K, Imada Y, Hiejima T, Furuya H. Screw-sense inversion characteristic of ?-helical poly(?-p-chlorobenzylL-aspartate) and comparison with other related polyaspartates.
Biopolymers 2005;
80:249-57. [PMID:
15657877 DOI:
10.1002/bip.20207]
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Abstract
This is one of a series of studies on the reversal of the helix sense of polyaspartates originated from the pioneering work of Goodman and his associates in 1960s. Poly(beta-p-chlorobenzyl L-aspartate) (PClBLA) is one of the well-studied polyaspartate derivatives in both solution and the solid state. The chemical structure of PClBLA differs from those of poly(beta-benzyl L-aspartate) (PBLA) and poly(beta-phenethyl L-aspartate) (PPLA) only at the terminal of the relatively long side chain. PBLA takes a left-handed form (L) in conventional helicoidal solvents and does not exhibit any screw-sense inversion. In contrast to PBLA, both PClBLA and PPLA form a right-handed helix (R) in chlorinated alkane solvents and exhibits a reversal of alpha-helix sense at higher temperatures. Yet the transition behaviors in the presence of denaturant acid are quite different between these two polymers. While PPLA exhibits transitions such as R --> L --> coil by lowering temperature, PClBLA directly goes into the coil state without showing the reentrant L form. The cause of these phenomenological differences among these polymers has been investigated by constructing the phase diagram.
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