Journal article
A new interpretation of the structure and solvent dependence of the far UV circular dichroism spectrum of short oligopeptides
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), v 55(40), pp 5701-5704
18 May 2019
PMID: 31032831
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Abstract
UV circular dichroism (UVCD) spectroscopy is a prominent tool for exploring secondary structures of polypeptides and proteins. In the unfolded state of these biomolecules, most of the individual residues primarily sample a conformation called polyproline II. Its CD spectrum contains a negatively biased positive couplet with a pronounced negative maximum below and a weak positive maximum above 200 nm. It is traditionally rationalized in terms of an excitonic coupling mechanism augmented by polarization effects. In this work, we carry out new time-dependent density functional theory calculations on the cationic tripeptide GAG in implicit and explicit water to determine the transitions that give rise to the observed CD signals of polyproline II and b-strand conformations. Our results reveal a plethora of electronic transitions that are governed by configurational interactions between multiple molecular orbital transitions of comparable energy. We also show that reproducing the CD spectra of polyproline II and b-strand conformations requires the explicit consideration of watermolecules. The structure dependence of delocalized occupied orbitals contributes to the experimentallyobserved invalidation of Flory's isolated pair hypothesis.
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- Title
- A new interpretation of the structure and solvent dependence of the far UV circular dichroism spectrum of short oligopeptides
- Creators
- Anshuman Kumar - University of California, RiversideReinhard Schweitzer-Stenner - Drexel UniversityBryan M. Wong - University of California, Riverside
- Publication Details
- Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), v 55(40), pp 5701-5704
- Publisher
- Royal Soc Chemistry
- Number of pages
- 4
- Grant note
- UC Riverside Collaborative Seed Grant N00014-18-1-2740 / Office of Naval Research DMR 1707770 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000468400200002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85065837454
- Other Identifier
- 991019167773104721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Chemistry, Multidisciplinary