title: Thermodynamic analysis of autonomous parallel beta-sheet formation in water.
abstract: We report the first thermodynamic analysis of parallel beta-sheet formation in a model system that folds in aqueous solution. NMR chemical shifts were used to determine beta-sheet population, and van't Hoff anaysis provided thermodynamic parameters. Our approach relies upon the d-prolyl-1,1-dimethyl-1,2-diaminoethane unit to promote parallel beta-sheet formation between attached peptide strands. The development of a macrocyclic reference molecule to provide chemical shift data for the fully folded state was crucial to the quantitative anaylsis.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Biophysics and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Fisk
authors.forename: Margaret A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: Samuel H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Gellman
mesh_terms: D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D014867:Water