Effect of central-residue replacements on the helical stability of a monomeric peptide.
The peptide acetylYEAAAKEARAKEAAAKAamide exhibits the dichroic features characteristic of a monomeric helix/coil transition in aqueous solution. Nineteen variants of this peptide each containing a different residue at position 9 were prepared by solid-phase peptide synthesis and purified by reversed-phase chromatography. The thermal dependence of the far-ultraviolet dichroic spectrum of each of these peptides except that containing proline is characteristic for an alpha-helix/coil transition. The relative stability of the helical forms of these peptides does not correlate with the preference of the variable amino acid to occupy a middle position in a protein helix. It is likely that the specific interactions of the variable residue with its local environment obscure any inherent preference of the residue to reside in an alpha-helix.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013816:Thermodynamics
D010455:Peptides