PEPTIDE MODELS .7. THE ENDING OF THE RIGHT-HANDED HELICES IN OLIGOPEPTIDES [FOR-(ALA)(N)-NH2 FOR 2-LESS-THAN-OR-EQUAL-TO-N-LESS-THAN-OR-EQUAL-TO-4] AND IN PROTEINS

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作者
PERCZEL, A
ENDREDI, G
MCALLISTER, MA
FARKAS, O
CSASZAR, P
LADIK, J
CSIZMADIA, IG
机构
[1] EOTVOS LORAND UNIV, INST CHEM, DEPT ORGAN CHEM, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
[2] UNIV ERLANGEN NURNBERG, INST THEORET CHEM, D-91058 ERLANGEN, GERMANY
[3] UNIV ERLANGEN NURNBERG, LAB NATL FDN CANC RES, D-91058 ERLANGEN, GERMANY
[4] APOTEX INC, TORONTO, ON, CANADA
来源
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE-THEOCHEM | 1995年 / 331卷 / 1-2期
基金
匈牙利科学研究基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1016/0166-1280(94)03972-N
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The right-handed helical conformation (denoted as alpha(L)) of a single amino-acid diamide (e.g. HCO-NHCHCH3CO-NH2) is not a minimum energy conformation on the ab initio potential energy surface. Computations performed on oligopeptides [For-(Ala)(n)-NH2, for n less than or equal to 4], revealed that the helix-like conformations do exist if the backbone conformation at the carboxyl-end is of delta L type; i.e. (alpha(L))(n-1)delta(L). This suggests that according to SCF computations, the isolated helices end in a type I beta-turn (alpha(L) beta(L)).
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