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Conformational behaviour of A cyclolinopeptide a analogue: Two-dimensional NMR study of cyclo(Pro1-Pro-Phe-Phe-Ac6c-IIe-ala-Val8)

✍ Scribed by Marco Mazzeo; Carla Isernia; Filomena Rossi; Michele Saviano; Carlo Pedone; Livio Paolillo; Ettore Benedetti; Vincenzo Pavone


Book ID
105360109
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
825 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
1075-2617

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

The cyclic octapeptide cyclo[‐Pro^1^‐Pro‐Phe‐Phe‐Ac~6~c‐Ile‐ala‐Val^8^‐] [C~8~‐Ac~6~c], containing the Pro^1^‐Pro‐Phe‐Phe sequence, followed by a bulky helicogenic C^α,α^‐dialkylated glycine residue Ac~6~c (1‐aminocyclohexane‐1‐carboxylic acid), and a ~D~‐Ala residue at position 7 has been synthesized. This cyclic peptide is a deletion analogue of the naturally occurring cyclic nonapeptide cyclolinopeptide A (CLA). It has been designed with the aim of studying the role that the Ac~6~c and ~D~‐Ala residues play on the conformational behaviour of the whole molecule and their influence on the conformation of the Pro^1^‐Pro‐Phe‐Phe sequence when compared with cyclolinopeptide A.

C~8~Ac~6~c has been investigated in chloroform and acetonitrile solutions by 2D NMR techniques. Only one set of sharp signals is observed in both solvents. This evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that only one conformational state exists in the chosen solvents. The interpretation of the experimental data points to the existence for C~8~‐Ac~6~c of a very rigid structure stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds. The measured NOE effects allow the calculation of internuclear distances, which have been used as restraints in molecular dynamic calculations. The proposed conformation of the molecule shows that the Pro‐Pro‐Phe segment retains the conformation observed in natural CLA both in solution and in the solid state and that the Ac~6~c residue indeed reinforces the ring rigidity not permitting the formation of any appropriate cavity in which inorganic cations could be complexed.