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New Substituted Tetraphenyl Porphyrins: Synthesis, NMR Characterization and Manganese(II) and Iron(III) Complexes
No full textSynthetic strategies for new substituted tetraphenylporphyrins and their iron(III) and manganese(III) complexes are reported together with 1H NMR studies on free bases allowing identification of the porphyrin isomers
Structural investigation of the VEGF receptor interaction with a helical antagonist peptide
No full textAngiogenesis is mainly regulated by the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a mitogen specific for endothelial cells, which binds two tyrosine kinase receptors, VEGFR1 and VEGFR2, on the surface of endothelial cells. Molecules targeting VEGF receptors are attractive to pharmacologically treat diseases associated with angiogenesis or to be used as probes in angiogenesis imaging. Recently, we reported a designed peptide targeting VEGF receptors and able to inhibit the VEGF-angiogenic response in vitro and in vivo. In this study, we employed NMR and molecular modeling methodology to investigate the molecular determinants of the interaction peptide-receptor. In particular, the peptide binding site on VEGFR1 domain 2 and the residues involved in receptor recognition have been determined. These results provide significant information to develop a new class of molecules able to recognize the VEGF receptors overexpressed in pathological angiogenesis. © 2013 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Unusual conformational preferences of β-alanine containing cyclic peptides. VII
No full textIn the present paper we describe the synthesis, purification, and single crystal x-ray analysis of the cyclic pentapeptide cyclo-(Pro-Phe-Phe-β-Ala-β-Ala). This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P212121 from methanol and adopts in the solid state an unusual conformation characterized by a cis β-Ala5-Pro1 peptide bond and by an intramolecular hydrogen bond stabilizing a C11 and a C12-ring structure. The C11 structure contains the Phe3 and the β-Ala4 at the corner position of the turn; it is the first observation of a type II β-turn enlargement due to the insertion of an extra methylene group of the β-alanine residue. The rest of the molecule participates in a newly characterized C12-ring structure, which incorporates a β-Ala residue at position i of the turn. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Zinc(II) complexes of ubiquitin: Speciation, affinity and binding features
No full textIntraneuronal inclusions consisting of hypermetallated, (poly-)ubiquitinated proteins are a hallmark of neurodegeneration. To highlight the possible role played by metal ions in the dysfunction of the ubiquitin-proteasome system, here we report on zinc(II)/ubiquitin binding in terms of affinity constants, speciation, preferential binding sites and effects on protein stability and self-assembly. Potentiometric titrations allowed us to establish that at neutral pH only two species, ZnUb and Zn2Ub, are present in solution, in line with ESI-MS data. A change in the diffusion coefficient of ubiquitin was observed by NMR DOSY experiments after addition of ZnII ions, and thus indicates metal-promoted formation of protein assemblies. Analysis of 1H, 15N, 13Cα and 13CO chemical-shift perturbation after equimolar addition of Zn II ions to ubiquitin outlined two different metal-binding modes. The first involves a dynamic equilibrium in which zinc(II) is shared between a region including Met1, Gln2, Ile3, Phe4, Thr12, Leu15, Glu16, Val17, Glu18, Ile61 and Gln62 residues, which represent a site already described for copper binding, and a domain comprising Ile23, Glu24, Lys27, Ala28, Gln49, Glu51, Asp52, Arg54 and Thr55 residues. A second looser binding mode is centred on His68. Differential scanning calorimetry evidenced that addition of increasing amounts of ZnII ions does not affect protein thermal stability; rather it influences the shape of thermograms because of the increased propensity of ubiquitin to self-associate. The results presented here indicate that ZnII ions may interact with specific regions of ubiquitin and promote protein-protein contacts. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
“NMR structural characterization of the mutants H42A and C27D of the protein ROS87 from Agrobacterium tumefaciens”
No full textThe pseudo‐βI‐turn: A new structural motif with a cis peptide bond in cyclic hexapeptides
No full textSynthesis and conformational analysis of three cyclic hexapeptides cyclo(‐Gly1‐Pro2‐Phe3‐Val4‐Xra5‐Phe6), Xaa= Phe (I), D‐Phe (II) and D‐Pro (III), were carried out to examine the influence of proline on the formation of reverse turns and the dynamics of hydrophobic peptide regions. Assignment of all 1H and 13C resonances was achieved by homo‐ and heteronuclear 2D‐NMR techniques (TOCSY, ROESY, HMQC, HMQC‐TOCSY and HMBCS‐270). The conformational analysis is based on interproton distances derived from ROESY spectra and homo‐ and heteronuclear coupling constants (E.COSY, HETLOC and HMBCS‐270). For structural refinements restrained molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in vacuo and in DMSO were performed. Each peptide exhibits two conformations in DMSO solution due to cis‐trans isomerism about the Gly‐Pro peptide bond. Surprisingly the cis‐Gly‐Pro segment in the minor isomers is not involved in a βVI‐turn, but forms a turn structure with cis‐Gly‐Pro in the i and i+ 1 positions. Although no stabilizing hydrogen bond is found in this turn, the φ and ψ‐angles closely correspond to a βI‐turn [Pro2:φ(i+ 1) ‐60°, ψ(i+ 1) ‐30° Phe3: φ(i+ 2) ‐100°, ψ(i+ 2) ‐50°]. Hence we call this structural element a pseudo‐βI‐turn. As expected, in the dominating all‐trans isomers proline occupies the i+ 1 position of a standard βI‐turn. Therefore, cis‐trans isomerization of the Gly1‐Pro2 amide bond only induces a local conformational rearrangement, with minor structural changes in other parts of the molecule. However, the geometry of the other regions is affected by the chirality of the i+ 1 amino acid for both isomers (βI for Phe5, βII′ for D‐Phe5 or D‐Prp5). Copyright © 1994, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserve
Evaluation of errors of interproton distances and correlation time determined from NMR cross-relaxation rates
No full textWe have analyzed a combined use of the two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect in the laboratory frame (NOESY) and in the rotating frame (ROESY) to determine interproton distances and correlation time in medium-sized rigid molecules (Davis, 1987). This method can be applied in the intermediate motional regime, 0.2 < ωoτc, < 5, (τc, correlation time, (ωo resonance frequency). Error limits depend on the motional regime and are smallest near ωoτc=1.14. The method was tested on six geminal proton pairs in the bicyclic octapeptide (S-deoxo-γ-[R]-OH-Ile3 amaninamide, Mw =870) for which at 297 K in DMSO, a correlation time of 1.0 ns, with a standard deviation of 0.12 ns, and an interproton distance of 1.87 Å, with standard deviation of 0.04 Å, are obtained. © 1992 ESCOM Science Publishers B.V
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