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A 13C spin-lattice relaxation study of dipeptides containing glycine and proline: Mobility of the cyclic proline side chain

✍ Scribed by E. T. Fossel; K. R. K. Easwaran; E. R. Blout


Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1975
Tongue
English
Weight
453 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3525

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Abstract

Molecular dynamics of the cyclic dipeptides cyclo(Gly‐L‐Pro), cyclo‐(L‐Pro‐L‐Pro), and cyclo(L‐Pro‐D‐Pro) and the linear dipeptides L‐Pro‐Gly and cis and trans Gly‐L‐Pro were studied in neutral aqueous solution by ^13^C nuclear magnetic resonance. Spinlattice relaxation times (T~1~) were determined for each individual carbon atom. The correlation times, τ, were derived from a semiquantitative analysis of the T~1~ data. The correlation times of the proline ring carbons, β, γ, and δ suggest that the cyclic dipeptides have more restriction of conformational freedom in the proline ring than the linear dipeptides. This effect is most pronounced on the γ carbon.