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Micelle-Triggered ?-Hairpin to ?-Helix Transition in a 14-Residue Peptide from a Choline-Binding Repeat of the Pneumococcal Autolysin LytA.

ABSTRACT: Choline-binding modules (CBMs) have a ??-solenoid structure composed of choline-binding repeats (CBR), which consist of a ?-hairpin followed by a short linker. To find minimal peptides that are able to maintain the CBR native structure and to evaluate their remaining choline-binding ability, we have analysed the third ?-hairpin of the CBM from the pneumococcal LytA autolysin. Circular dichroism and NMR data reveal that this peptide forms a highly stable native-like ?-hairpin both in aqueous solution and in the presence of trifluoroethanol, but, strikingly, the peptide structure is a stable amphipathic ?-helix in both zwitterionic (dodecylphosphocholine) and anionic (sodium dodecylsulfate) detergent micelles, as well as in small unilamellar vesicles. This ?-hairpin to ?-helix conversion is reversible. Given that the ?-hairpin and ?-helix differ greatly in the distribution of hydrophobic and hydrophilic side chains, we propose that the amphipathicity is a requirement for a peptide structure to interact and to be stable in micelles or lipid vesicles. To our knowledge, this "chameleonic" behaviour is the only described case of a micelle-induced structural transition between two ordered peptide structures.

SUBMITTER: Zamora-Carreras H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4471590 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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