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Monte Carlo calculations on the conformations of models for the glycopeptide linkage of glycoproteins.

Abstract：

:In order to search for probable conformations of the peptide, the amino acid side chain, and the carbohydrate linkage in glycoproteins, conformational energy surfaces of glycopeptide model compounds were studied by Monte Carlo methods using the Metropolis algorithm. The potential energies were composed of empirical energy functions which include nonbonded interactions, electrostatics, hydrogen bonding, and torsional energies specified by parameters which have been used for peptides. Calculations were performed on 1-N-acetyl-2-acetamido-beta-D-glucopyranosyl amine and the glycosylated dipeptide N-acetyl-delta-N-(2-acetamido-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-L-asparaginyl-N'-methyl amide as models for N-glycosylated peptides and on methyl-2-acetamido-alpha-D-galactopyranoside as well as the glycosylated dipeptides N-acetyl-gamma-O-(2-acetamido-alpha-D-galactopyranosyl)-L-threonyl-N'-methyl amide and its seryl analog as models for O-glycosylated glycoproteins. The probable conformations of these compounds were analyzed by single-angle probability tables and by two-dimensional conformation density maps projected from the Markov chains which contained up to six independently varied conformational dihedral angles. The presence of high barriers to rotation required the use of search strategies which resulted in a rather low acceptance rate for new conformations in the Metropolis algorithm in order to avoid trapping of the Markov chain in local energy minima. This problem contributed to the failure of these calculations to attain complete convergence to the thermodynamic limit for the glycosylated dipeptide models in which six dihedral angles were independently varied. Analysis of the results shows that the conformational space available to the highly crowded axial glycosides of the alpha-O-GalNAc type is much more restricted than that for the N-asparaginyl glycopeptides. The most probable conformation for the O-glycosylated peptides is is a beta-turn while N-glycosylated peptides may be either in a beta-turn or an extended conformation.

journal_name

Arch Biochem Biophys

journal_title

Archives of biochemistry and biophysics

authors

Duben AJ,Bush CA

doi

10.1016/0003-9861(83)90001-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-08-01 00:00:00

pages

1-15

issue

eissn

0003-9861

issn

1096-0384

pii

0003-9861(83)90001-2

journal_volume

225

pub_type

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Monte Carlo calculations on the conformations of models for the glycopeptide linkage of glycoproteins.