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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 17, 期 7, 页码 5376-5385出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4cp05216a
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- Center for Supramolecular Interactions of the Freie Universitat Berlin
In the natural peptides, helices are stabilized by hydrogen bonds that point backward along the sequence direction. Until now, there is only little evidence for the existence of analogous structures in oligomers of conformationally unrestricted beta amino acids. We specifically designed the beta peptide Ac-(beta(2)hAla)(6)-LysH(+) to form native like helical structures in the gas phase. The design follows the known properties of the peptide Ac-Ala(6)-LysH(+) that forms a alpha helix in isolation. We perform ion-mobility mass-spectrometry and vibrational spectroscopy in the gas phase, combined with state-of-the-art density-functional theory simulations of these molecular systems in order to characterize their structure. We can show that the straightforward exchange of alanine residues for the homologous beta amino acids generates a system that is generally capable of adopting native like helices with backward oriented H-bonds. By pushing the limits of theory and experiments, we show that one cannot assign a single preferred structure type due to the densely populated energy landscape and present an interpretation of the data that suggests an equilibrium of three helical structures.
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