title: FTIR spectra of solid poly-l-lysine in the stretching NH mode range.
abstract: Three bands at 3270 cm(-1), 3200 cm(-1) and 3030 cm(-1) are found in the IR stretching proton (nu(1)) mode spectral range in spectra of solid poly-l-lysine (PLL). Strong quantitative changes of these bands are observed in samples dried from water solutions with different pH. The narrow band at 3270 cm(-1), which is strong in the spectrum of PLL precipitated from pH=12 alkaline medium, is assigned to the nu(1) peptide proton mode of NH-CO (amide A) of the beta-sheet structure type. The band at 3200 cm(-1), which is intensified in PLL precipitated from pH=1 acidic medium, relates to the nu(1) peptide mode in the random coil structure. The band at 3030 cm(-1), whose peak intensity increases two-fold in going from alkaline to acidic medium, is assigned to the nu(1) modes of protonated NH(3)(+) side chain groups. The frequencies of all bands were used for estimating H-bond energy relying on an empirical correlation between this property and the red shift of the nu(1) band. The enthalpy of the secondary structure transition from beta-sheet to the random coil, which is observed in PLL at the change of pH from 11 to 1 amounts to 4.7 kJ mol(-1).
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Givat Ram 91904, Israel. markroz@chem.ch.huji.ac.il
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rozenberg
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shoham
mesh_terms: D000577:Amides / Q000737:chemistry*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D011107:Polylysine / Q000737:chemistry*; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
chemical_list: D000577:Amides; D011107:Polylysine