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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 306, Issue 2, Pages 291-305Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4394
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2D spin-diffusion NMR; rotational-echo double-resonance; silk fibroin; silk I; beta-turn type II structure
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The structure of a crystalline form of Bombyx mori silk fibroin, commonly found before the spinning process (known as silk I), was proposed by combining data obtained from two-dimensional spin-diffusion nuclear magnetic resonance under off magic angle spinning, rotational-echo double-resonance (REDOR), previously reported X-ray diffraction analyses and C-13 NMR chemical shifts. Instead of B. mori silk fibroin with silk I structure, we used the sequential model peptide (Ala-Gly)(15). The structure of the sequential model peptide is characterized as silk I after dissolving the peptide in 9 M LiBr and then dialyzing against water. Moreover, C-13 or N-15-labeled sites may be introduced easily at any position in (Ala-Gly)(15) by the solid phase synthesis method for these NMR experiments. The torsional angles of (Ala-Gly)(15) with silk I structure were determined as (-60(+/-5)degrees, 130(+/-5)degrees) and (70(+/-5)degrees, 30(+/-5)degrees) for Ala and Gly residues, respectively. The formation of the intra-molecular hydrogen bonding along the chain was confirmed from REDOR NMR by determination of the inter-atomic distance between the nitrogen and carbon atoms comprising the intra-molecular hydrogen bonding. The structure is named a repeated beta -turn type II-like structure. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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