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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 125, Issue 5, Pages 1203-1220Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0275360
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [5 R01 GM 13453] Funding Source: Medline
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A two-state helix-coil model underlies all calculations of fractional helicities FH from CD spectra of helical polypeptides. The presence of an isoclichroic point near 203 nm is widely assumed to validate this model, but is shown here to provide inadequate validation for alanine-rich peptides. A parametric correlation with constant slope B between CD ellipticities at a pair of wavelengths is introduced as a more rigorous two-state test. Correlations of temperature-dependent [theta](222) VS [theta](208) values are reported for a variety of peptides. Constant slopes B are observed for literature CD data obtained from fragments of helical proteins and dimeric helical coiled coils, but parametric correlations of CD data for alanine-rich peptides consistently exhibit anomalous concave upward curvature, characterized by local slopes that are linearly temperature dependent. Low-temperature CD studies together with parametric correlations at a series of wavelengths demonstrate that the curvature anomaly is maximal at 222 nm and localized in the 215-230 nm wavelength region. Precedented structural variation of the phi, psi dihedral angles of the alpha-helix is suggested as a possible explanation. For the important case of alanine-rich peptides, experiments are proposed that may yield temperature corrections for [theta](222) and permit reliable calculations of FH from [theta](222) values.
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