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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 15, Issue 46, Pages 12653-12662Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200901885
Keywords
cyclic lipodepsipeptide; NMR spectroscopy; ion channels; self-assembly; peptides
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- FWO-Vlaanderen [G.0365.03, G.0064.07]
- IWT Flanders
- Ghent University
- Free University of Brussels (VUB)
- University of Antwerp
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Pseudodesmin A is it cyclic lipodepsipeptide (CLP) of the viscosin group with a moderate in vitro biological activity. For several CLPs, including members of this group, this activity has been related to the ability to form ion pores in cellular membranes. As their size does not allow individual CLPs to span the membrane bilayer, individual monomers must somehow assemble into a larger structure. NMR spectroscopy has been used to demonstrate that in chloroform and other apolar organic solvents, pseudodesmin A monomers assemble into a supramolecular structure. These self-assembled structures can become sufficiently large to span the membrane bilayer as demonstrated with translational diffusion NMR spectroscopic measurements. With the aim to obtain more insight into the structural nature of this assembly, the solution conformation of pseudodesmin A was first determined by using ROESY (rOe) restraints measured in acetonitrile, in which no self-association occurs. The structure, which is found to be mostly similar to the previously described crystal structure. is shown to be retained within the supramolecular complex. Intermolecular rOe contacts obtained in chloroform together with chemical shift perturbation data provides structural insight into the organization of the self-associated complex. Based upon this analysis, a model for the organization of pseudodesmin A monomers in the supramolecular assembly is proposed, which is in agreement with the formation of bilayer spanning hydrophilic pores and provides the basis for a structure-function relationship for this type of CLPs. Finally, it is demonstrated that the differences previously reported between the crystal and solution conformation of the white line inducing principle (WLIP), a close analogue of pseudodesmin A, are the result of the use of dimethyl sulfoxide as solvent, whose strong hydrogen-bonding capacity induces conformational exchange.
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