Carbohydrate Amino Acids: The Intrinsic Conformational Preference for a β-Turn-Type Structure in a Carbopeptoid Building Block
作者:Rebecca A. Jockusch、Francis O. Talbot、Paul S. Rogers、Michela I. Simone、George W. J. Fleet、John P. Simons
DOI:10.1021/ja0607133
日期:2006.12.1
Infrared ion-dip spectroscopy coupled with DFT and ab initio calculations are used to establish the intrinsic conformational preference of the basic structural unit of a peptide mimic, a cis-tetrahydrofuran-based "carbopeptoid" (amide-sugar-amide), isolated at low temperature in the gas phase. The carbopeptoid units form a beta-turn-type structure, stabilized by an intramolecular NH -> OC hydrogen bond across the sugar ring, thus forming a 10-membered, C-10 turn. Despite the clear preference for C-10 beta-turn structures in the basic unit, however, the presence of multiple hydrogen-bond donating and accepting groups also generates a rich conformational landscape, and alternative structures may be populated in related molecules. Calculations on an extended, carbopeptoid dimer unit, which includes an alternating amide-sugar-amide-sugar-amide chain, identify conformers exhibiting alternative hydrogen-bonding arrangements that are somewhat more stable than the lowest-energy double beta-turn forming conformer.