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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 137, Issue 16, Pages 5363-5371Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja5117809
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [GM099889]
- NSF [CHE-1152218]
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Disulfide bonds between cysteine residues are essential to the structure and folding of many proteins. Yet their role in the design of structured peptides and proteins has frequently been limited to use as intrachain covalent staples that reinforce existing structure or induce knot-like conformations. In beta-hairpins, their placement at non-H-bonding positions across antiparallel strands has proven useful for achieving fully folded positive controls. Here we report a new class of designed beta-sheet peptide dimers with strand-central disulfides as a key element. We have found that the mere presence of a disulfide bond near the middle of a short peptide chain is sufficient to nucleate some antiparallel beta-sheet structure; addition of beta-capping units and other favorable cross-strand interactions yield hyperstable sheets. Strand-central cystines were found to be superior to the best designed reversing turns in terms of nucleating beta-sheet structure formation. We have explored the limitations and possibilities of this technique (the use of disulfides as sheet nucleators), and we provide a set of rules and rationales for the application and further design of disulfide-tethered turnless beta-sheets.
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