title: NMR solution structure of the angiostatic peptide anginex.
abstract: Anginex, a designed peptide 33mer, is known to function both as an antiangiogenic and bactericidal agent. Solving the NMR solution structure of the peptide is key to understand better its structure-activity relationships and to design more bioactive peptides and peptide mimetics. However, structure elucidation of anginex has been elusive due to subunit exchange-induced resonance broadening. Here, we found that performing NMR structural studies in a micellar environment abolishes exchange broadening and allows the structure of anginex to be determined. Anginex folds in an amphipathic, three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet conformation with functionally key hydrophobic residues lying on one face of the beta-sheet and positively charged, mostly lysine residues, lying on the opposite face. Structural comparison is made with a homologous, yet relatively inactive peptide, betapep-28. These results contribute to the design of peptidomimetics of anginex for therapeutic use against angiogenically-related diseases like cancer, as well as infectious diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center, 6-155 Jackson Hall, 321 Church Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: Monica M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Arroyo
authors.forename: Kevin H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Mayo
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods*; D010455:Peptides; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins; C111993:betapep-25 protein, synthetic