Chakrabarti, P. and Bernard, M. and Rees, D. C. (1986) Peptide Bond Distortion and the Curvature of α-helices. Biopolymers, 25 (6). pp. 1087-1093. ISSN 0006-3525. doi:10.1002/bip.360250609. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150210-094502630
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Abstract
Solvent accessible peptide bonds in proteins exhibit a 1–3° compression of the OCN bond angle and a corresponding expansion of the NCCa bond angle, relative to buried peptide bonds. These changes are consistent with an increase in hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen accompanying solvent exposure (J. D. Dunitz and F. K. Winkler, (1975) Acta Cryst.B31, 251–263). For amphiphilic structures such as α-helices, systematic differences in peptide-bond geometry between solvent-exposed and buried residues will generate significant curvature. A decrease of 4° in the OCN bond angle between hydrophilic and hydrophobic sides of an amphiphilic helix will lead to smooth bending, with a radius of curvature of about 70 Å. This curvature is in the range observed for α-helices in proteins. Helix curvature is estimated to have only a small effect on the magnitude and direction of the helical dipole moment.
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| Additional Information: | © 1986 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Received August 13, 1985; Accepted January 6, 1986. This work was supported in part by NIH grant GM31875 and an NSF Presidential Young Investigators Award. | |||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1002/bip.360250609 | |||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Chakrabarti, P., Bernard, M. and Rees, D. C. (1986), Peptide-bond distortions and the curvature of α-helices. Biopolymers, 25: 1087–1093. doi: 10.1002/bip.360250609 | |||||||||
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