Conformational studies on enkephalins using the MOLS technique |
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Authors: | Vengadesan K Gautham N |
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Affiliation: | Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Chennai 600 025, India. |
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Abstract: | Conformational studies of two linear enkephalin molecules, Met-enkephalin and Leu-enkephalin, have been carried using the mutually orthogonal Latin squares (MOLS) technique with the ECEPP/3 force field. This technique was developed recently in our laboratory to perform an unbiased search of the conformational space of peptides and to locate low energy conformations. The present study identified all the folds predicted by other studies, and in addition picked up other energetically favorable structures. The results suggest that the peptide backbone exists as a mixture of folded and unfolded forms (approximately 50% each). The study also provides information on the distribution of the low energy conformations that we have classified on the basis of structural motifs, backbone hydrogen-bonding patterns, and root mean square deviations in atomic positions. |
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Keywords: | enkephalins peptide structure prediction mutually orthogonal Latin squares unbiased sampling low energy conformers |
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