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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 86, Issue 3, Pages 1385-1392Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74209-5
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We investigated the temperature- and pressure-dependent structure and phase behavior of a solvated oligopeptide, GVG(VPGVG), which serves as a minimalistic elastin-like model system, over a large region of the thermodynamic phase field, ranging from 2 to 120degreesC and from ambient pressure up to similar to10 kbar, applying various spectroscopic (CD, FT-IR) and thermodynamic (DSC, PPC) measurements. We find that this octapeptide behaves as a two-state system which undergoes the well-known inverse-temperature folding transition occurring at T approximate to 36degreesC, and, in addition, a slow trend reversal at higher temperatures, finally leading to a reentrant unfolding close to the boiling point of water. Furthermore, the pressure-dependence of the folding/unfolding transition was studied to yield a more complete picture of the p,T-stability diagram of the system. A molecular-level picture of these processes, in particular on the role of water for the folding and unfolding events of the peptide, presented with the help of molecular-dynamics simulations, is presented in a companion article in this issue.
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