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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 124, 期 13, 页码 2579-2590出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c00657
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- NSF grant from the National Science Foundation [DMR-1707770]
- UC Riverside Collaborative Seed Grant
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-18-1-2740]
We investigate the UV absorption spectra of a series of cationic GxG peptides (where x denotes a guest residue) in aqueous solution and find that only a subset of these spectra show a strong dependence with temperature. To explore whether or not this observation reflects conformational dependencies, we carry out time-dependent density functional calculations for the polyproline II (pPII) and beta-strand conformations in implicit and explicit water. We find that the calculated CD spectra for pPII can qualitatively account for the experimental spectra irrespective of the water model. The beta-strand UV-CD spectra, however, require the explicit consideration of water. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that both the NV1 and NV2 band are the envelopes of contributions from multiple transitions that involve more than just the HOMOs and LUMOs of the peptide groups. A natural transition orbital analysis reveals that some of the transitions have a charge-transfer character. The overall manifold of transitions depends on the peptide's backbone conformation, peptide hydration, and side chain of the guest residue. Our results reveal that peptide groups, side chains, and hydration shells must be considered as an entity for a physically valid characterization of UV absorbance and circular dichroism.
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