Removing an interhelical salt bridge abolishes coiled-coil formation in a de novo designed peptide |
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Authors: | Meier Markus Lustig Ariel Aebi Ueli Burkhard Peter |
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Institution: | M.E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | Alpha-helical coiled coils represent a common protein oligomerization motif that are mainly stabilized by hydrophobic interactions occurring along their coiled-coil interface, the so-called hydrophobic seam. We have recently de novo designed and optimized a series of two-heptad repeat long coiled-coil peptides which are further stabilized by a complex network of inter- and intrahelical salt bridges. Here we have extended the de novo design of such two heptad-repeat long peptides by removing the central and most important g-e' Arg to Glu (g-e'RE) ionic interhelical interaction and replacing these residues by alanine residues. The effect of the missing interhelical ionic interaction on coiled-coil formation and stability has been analyzed by CD spectroscopy, analytical ultracentrifugation, and X-ray crystallography. We show that the peptide, while being highly alpha-helical, is no longer able to form a parallel coiled-coil structure but rather assumes an octameric globular helical assembly devoid of any coiled-coil interactions. |
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