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Simulation of IR, Raman and VCD amide I band profiles of self-assembled peptides
Spectroscopy, v 24(1-2)
01 Jan 2010
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Abstract
Vibrational spectroscopy is a suitable and convenient tool to probe the self-assembly of peptides, a biomedically and biotechnologically relevant process. Theoretical efforts to quantitatively analyze vibrational spectra of peptide aggregates have thus far focused on exploring the IR and to a lesser extent the vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of rather small sized planar or nearly planar beta-sheet structure. The current study utilizes an algorithm based on an excitonic coupling model with experimentally or computationally determined parameters to simulate the amide I band profiles of the IR. isotropic Raman, anisotropic Raman and VCD spectra of two-and three-dimensional beta-sheet structures. In agreement with earlier calculations we found that the splitting between the two prominent IR bands of an antiparallel beta-sheet increases with increasing number of strands until a saturation is reached at approximately eight strands. The dominant isotropic and anisotropic Raman hands of amide I are located between the two IR bands and downshift only slightly with increasing sheet length. The VCD signal is rather weak. We also investigated the influence of sheet stacking on amide I by calculating the respective IR, Raman and VCD profiles for two in-register, facially stacked beta-sheets with seven strands per sheet for an antiparallel arrangement of the sheets and six strands per sheet for a parallel arrangement. We found that stacking produces additional bands in the IR and Raman spectrum, in line with the reduced symmetry of the ideal unit cell of the beta.-sheet. In addition. a more pronounced VCD signal is detected. A comparison with experimental IR. Raman and VCD spectra of gelated (AAKA)(4) reveals a good qualitative agreement between experimental and simulated amide 1 band profiles.
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- Title
- Simulation of IR, Raman and VCD amide I band profiles of self-assembled peptides
- Creators
- Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner - Drexel UniversityThomas J. Measey - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Spectroscopy, v 24(1-2)
- Publisher
- Hindawi Publishing Group
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- 0804492 / Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien; National Science Foundation (NSF); NSF - Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000278029800002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77953754754
- Other Identifier
- 991019167976004721
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