Poly(L-alanine) as a universal reference material for understanding protein energies and structures.

Abstract:

:We present a proposition, the "poly(L-alanine) hypothesis," which asserts that the native backbone geometry for any polypeptide or protein of M residues has a closely mimicking, mechanically stable, image in poly(L-alanine) of the same number of residues. Using a molecular mechanics force field to represent the relevant potential energy hypersurfaces, we have carried out calculations over a wide range of M values to show that poly(L-alanine) possesses the structural versatility necessary to satisfy the proposition. These include poly(L-alanine) representatives of minima corresponding to secondary and supersecondary structures, as well as poly(L-alanine) images for tertiary structures of the naturally occurring proteins bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, crambin, ribonuclease A, and superoxide dismutase. The successful validation of the hypothesis presented in this paper indicates that poly(L-alanine) will serve as a good reference material in thermodynamic perturbation theory and calculations aimed at evaluating relative free energies for competing candidate tertiary structures in real polypeptides and proteins.

authors

Head-Gordon T,Stillinger FH,Wright MH,Gay DM

doi

10.1073/pnas.89.23.11513

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-12-01 00:00:00

pages

11513-7

issue

23

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

89

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