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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 99, Issue 5, Pages 2782-2787Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.042496899
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We study atomic models of the thermodynamics of the structural transition of peptides that form a-helices. The effect of sequence variation on a-helix formation for alanine-rich peptides, Ac-Ala(21)-methyl amide (A21) and Ac-A(5) (AAARA)(3)A-methyl amide (Fs peptide), is investigated by atomic simulation studies of the thermodynamics of the helix-coil transition in explicit water. The simulations show that the guanidinium group in the Arg side chains in the Fs peptide interacts with the carbonyl group four amino acids upstream in the chain and desolvates backbone hydrogen bonds. This desolvation can be directly correlated with a higher probability of hydrogen bond formation. We find that Fs has higher helical content than A21 at all temperatures. A small modification in the AMBER force field reproduces the experimental helical content and helix-coil transition temperatures for the Fs peptide.
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