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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 116, 期 45, 页码 13308-13319出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp307442f
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- European Research Council
Hydrogen bonding between glutamine-residues has been identified as playing an important role in the intermolecular association and aggregation of protein's. To establish the molecular mechanisms of glutamine interactions, neutron diffraction coupled with hydrogen/deuterium isotopic substitution in combination with computational modeling has been used to investigate the structure and hydration of glutamine in aqueous solution. The final structures obtained are consistent with the experimental data and provide insight into the hydrogen-bonding ability of glutamine. We find that the backbone of glutamine is able to coordinate more water molecules than the side chain, suggesting that charged groups on the glutamine molecule are more successful in attracting water than the dipole in the side chain. In both the backbone and the side chain, we find that the carbonyl groups interact more readily with water molecules than the amine groups. We find that glutamine glutamine interactions are present, despite their low concentration in this dilute Solution. This is evidenced through the occurrence of dimers of glutamine molecules in the solution, demonstrating the effective propensity of this molecule to associate through backbone-backbone, backbone-side chain, and side chain-side chain hydrogen bond interactions. The formation of dimers of glutamine molecules in such a dilute Solution (30 mg/mL glutamine) may have implications in the aggregation of glutamine-rich proteins in neurological diseases where aggregation is prevalent.
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