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MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 122-133Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05225j
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- National Science Foundation [Chem 0804492]
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Ample evidence gathered over the last ten years indicates that unfolded and naturally disordered proteins and peptides can show local order in that short segments can adopt turn or polyproline II-like conformations. These findings show that unfolded states cannot be described by the so-called random coil model which assumes that individual amino acid residues sample the entire sterically accessible parts of the Ramachandran with very similar probabilities. This article reviews the experimental evidence for the notion that amino acid residues have different propensities for polyproline II, beta-strand, helical and turn conformations in water. These propensities are changed by interactions with nearest neighbours. We show that for a substantial number of residues the conformational propensities in the unfolded state correlate with values for helix propagation and the Chou-Fasman propensities for beta-strands. Based on the presented results we hypothesize that the conformational distributions of a representative set of short peptides could be used for predicting structural distributions of disordered peptides and proteins in the future.
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