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Analysis of the factors that stabilize a designed two-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet.


ABSTRACT: Autonomously folding beta-hairpins (two-strand antiparallel beta-sheets) have become increasingly valuable tools for probing the forces that control peptide and protein conformational preferences. We examine the effects of variations in sequence and solvent on the stability of a previously designed 12-residue peptide (1). This peptide adopts a beta-hairpin conformation containing a two-residue loop (D-Pro-Gly) and a four-residue interstrand sidechain cluster that is observed in the natural protein GB1. We show that the conformational propensity of the loop segment plays an important role in beta-hairpin stability by comparing 1 with (D)P--> N mutant 2. In addition, we show that the sidechain cluster contributes both to conformational stability and to folding cooperativity by comparing 1 with mutant 3, in which two of the four cluster residues have been changed to serine. Thermodynamic analysis suggests that the high loop-forming propensity of the (D)PG segment decreases the entropic cost of beta-hairpin formation relative to the more flexible NG segment, but that the conformational rigidity of (D)PG may prevent optimal contacts between the sidechains of the GB1-derived cluster. The enthalpic favorability of folding in these designed beta-hairpins suggests that they are excellent scaffolds for studying the fundamental mechanisms by which amino acid sidechains interact with one another in folded proteins.

SUBMITTER: Espinosa JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2373626 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Analysis of the factors that stabilize a designed two-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet.

Espinosa Juan F JF   Syud Faisal A FA   Gellman Samuel H SH  

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20020601 6


Autonomously folding beta-hairpins (two-strand antiparallel beta-sheets) have become increasingly valuable tools for probing the forces that control peptide and protein conformational preferences. We examine the effects of variations in sequence and solvent on the stability of a previously designed 12-residue peptide (1). This peptide adopts a beta-hairpin conformation containing a two-residue loop (D-Pro-Gly) and a four-residue interstrand sidechain cluster that is observed in the natural prote  ...[more]

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