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Interactions between hydrophobic side chains within α-helices

✍ Scribed by Trevor P. Creamer; George D. Rose

Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
898 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
0961-8368

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The thermodynamic basis of helix stability in peptides and proteins is a topic of considerable interest. Accordingly, we have computed the interactions between side chains of all hydrophobic residue pairs and selected triples in a model helix, using Boltzmann‐weighted exhaustive modeling. Specifically, all possible pairs from the set Ala, Cys, His, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Trp, Tyr, and Val were modeled at spacings of (i, i + 2), (i, i + 3), and (i, i + 4) in the central turn of a model poly‐alanyl α‐helix. Significant interactions —both stabilizing and destabilizing —were found to occur at spacings of (i, i + 3) and (i, i + 4), particularly in side chains with rings (i.e., Phe, Tyr, Trp, and His). In addition, modeling of leucine triples in a helix showed that the free energy can exceed the sum of pairwise interactions in certain cases. Our calculated interaction values both rationalize recent experimental data and provide previously unavailable estimates of the constituent energies and entropies of interaction.

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