Abstract:
:A cyclic hexapeptide, cyclo(Pro-Gly-Pro-Gly-Pro-Gly), has been synthesized; its solution conformations were examined by 220-MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The solution structures have been deduced, and shown to vary as a function of solvent polarity. In addition, it has been found that this cyclic peptide binds alkali metal cations. While the predominant conformation of this cyclic peptide is 3-fold symmetric in the apolar solvent methylene chloride, an asymmetric structure is preferred in some polar solvents (water, dimethylsulfoxide). However, addition of alkali metal salts, such as sodium thiocyanate, to dimethylsulfoxide solutions of the peptide shifts the conformational equilibrium in favor of a second type of C(3)-symmetric structure, presumably the result of the formation of a stable peptide-metal ion complex. Nuclear magnetic resonance data suggest that the peptide in methylene chloride solution takes up a conformation containing three cis' Pro C(alpha)-C=O bonds and three cis Gly-Pro peptide bonds; that water and dimethylsulfoxide stabilize a conformer in which one (or two) sets of such bonds of a given Pro-Gly unit have undergone interconversion to trans'/trans forms; and that alkali metal cations complex the cyclic peptide in a C(3)-symmetric all-trans'/trans structure.
journal_name
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S Aauthors
Deber CM,Torchia DA,Wong SC,Blout ERdoi
10.1073/pnas.69.7.1825subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1972-07-01 00:00:00pages
1825-9issue
7eissn
0027-8424issn
1091-6490journal_volume
69pub_type
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