title: N-terminal peptide sequence repetition influences the kinetics of backbone fragmentation: a manifestation of the Jahn-Teller effect?
abstract: Analysis of large (>10,000 entries) databases consisting of high-resolution tandem mass spectra of peptide dications revealed with high statistical significance (P < 1[Symbol: see text]10(-3)) that peptides with non-identical first two N-terminal amino acids undergo cleavages of the second peptide bond at higher rates than repetitive sequences composed of the same amino acids (i.e., in general AB- and BA- bonds cleave more often than AA- and BB- bonds). This effect seems to depend upon the collisional energy, being stronger at lower energies. The phenomenon is likely to indicate the presence of the diketopiperazine structure for at least some b2 (+) ions. When consisting of two identical amino acids, these species should form through intermediates that have a symmetric geometry and, thus, must be subject to the Jahn-Teller effect that reduces the stability of such systems.
authors: Division of Physiological Chemistry I, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: David M
authors: DM
authors: Good
authors: Hongqian
authors: H
authors: Yang
authors: Roman A
authors: RA
authors: Zubarev
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002413:Cations, Divalent / Q000737:chemistry*; D054659:Diketopiperazines / Q000737:chemistry; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002413:Cations, Divalent; D054659:Diketopiperazines; D010455:Peptides
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