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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 130, 期 15, 页码 5124-5130出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0778444
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/B/04676/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/B/04676/2, BBS/B/04676] Funding Source: Medline
Attempts to design peptide-based fibers from first principles test our understanding of protein folding and assembly, and potentially provide routes to new biomaterials. Several groups have presented such designs based on a-helical and beta-strand building blocks. A key issue is this area now is engineering and controlling fiber morphology and related properties. Previously, we have reported the design and characterization of a self-assembling peptide fiber (SAF) system based on a-helical coiled-coil building blocks. With preceding designs, the SAFs are thickened, highly ordered structures in which many coiled coils are tightly bundled. As a result, the fibers behave as rigid rods. Here we report successful attempts to design new fibers that are thinner and more flexible by further programming at the amino-acid sequence level. This was done by introducing extended, or smeared, electrostatic networks of arginine and glutamate residues to the surfaces of the coiled-coil building blocks. Furthermore, using arginine-rather than lysine-in these networks plays a major role in the fiber assembly, presumably by facilitating multidentate intra and intercoiled-coil salt bridges.
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