Unequivocal synthesis and characterization of a parallel and an antiparallel bis-cystine peptide
摘要:
Using an unambiguous methodology we have synthesized the two topological isomers (parallel and antiparallel) of a cyclic peptide dimer containing two disulfide bridges, and we have characterized them spectroscopically using circular dichroism and NMR. We have shown that the interactions between the two chains play a dominant role in determining the different conformational properties of both dimers. Although both molecules are flexible, the ensemble of conformations available to them is clearly different: the antiparallel dimer gives extended structures while the parallel dimer gives mainly folded conformations. Interchain NOEs between symmetry-related residues could be differentiated from the trivial intraresidue NOE using a selective TOCSY-NOESY experiment, and this assignment was in agreement with the predictions made from a conformational search using molecular dynamics without experimental constraints.