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A metal-peptide capsule by multiple ring threading.

ABSTRACT: Cavity creation is a key to the origin of biological functions. Small cavities such as enzyme pockets are created simply through liner peptide folding. Nature can create much larger cavities by threading and entangling large peptide rings, as learned from gigantic virus capsids, where not only chemical structures but the topology of threaded rings must be controlled. Although interlocked molecules are a topic of current interest, they have for decades been explored merely as elements of molecular machines, or as a synthetic challenge. No research has specifically targeted them for, and succesfully achieved, cavity creation. Here we report the emergence of a huge capsular framework via multiple threading of metal-peptide rings. Six equivalent C₄-propeller-shaped rings, each consisting of four oligopeptides and Ag⁺, are threaded by each other a total of twelve times (crossing number: 24) to assemble into a well-defined 4 nm-sized sphere, which acts as a huge molecular capsule.

SUBMITTER: Sawada T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6908709 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A metal-peptide capsule by multiple ring threading.

Sawada Tomohisa T Inomata Yuuki Y Shimokawa Koya K Fujita Makoto M

Nature communications 20191212 1

Cavity creation is a key to the origin of biological functions. Small cavities such as enzyme pockets are created simply through liner peptide folding. Nature can create much larger cavities by threading and entangling large peptide rings, as learned from gigantic virus capsids, where not only chemical structures but the topology of threaded rings must be controlled. Although interlocked molecules are a topic of current interest, they have for decades been explored merely as elements of molecula ...[more]

PMID: 31831732

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