Journal
JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 203-211Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/psc.2601
Keywords
peptoids; N-methylation; conformational analysis; cis - trans isomerisation; solvent effect; MP2; PCM
Funding
- European Social Fund
- Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET, AGH, Krakow [MEiN/SGI3700/UOpolski/063/2006]
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The influence of aqueous environment on the main-chain conformation ((0), phi, and dihedral angles) of two model peptoids: N-acetyl-N-methylglycine N'-methylamide (Ac-N(Me)-Gly-NHMe) (1) and N-acetyl-N-methylglycine N',N'-dimethylamide (Ac-N(Me)-Gly-NMe2) (2) was investigated by MP2/6-311++G(d,p) method. The Ramachandran maps of both studied molecules with cis and trans configuration of the N-terminal amide bond in the gas phase and in water environment were obtained and all energy minima localized. The polarizable continuum model was applied to estimate the solvation effect on conformation. Energy minima of the Ac-N(Me)-Gly-NHMe and Ac-N(Me)-Gly-NMe2 have been analyzed in terms of the possible hydrogen bonds and C=O dipole attraction. To validate the theoretical results obtained, conformations of the similar structures gathered in the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre were analyzed. Obtained results indicate that aqueous environment in model peptoids 1 and 2 favors the conformation F (phi and =-70o, 180o), and additionally significantly increases the percentage of structures with cis configuration of N-terminal amide bond in studied compounds. Copyright (c) 2014 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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