Conformational preference of 'CαNN' short peptide motif towards recognition of anions.

ABSTRACT: Among several 'anion binding motifs', the recently described 'C(α)NN' motif occurring in the loop regions preceding a helix, is conserved through evolution both in sequence and its conformation. To establish the significance of the conserved sequence and their intrinsic affinity for anions, a series of peptides containing the naturally occurring 'C(α)NN' motif at the N-terminus of a designed helix, have been modeled and studied in a context free system using computational techniques. Appearance of a single interacting site with negative binding free-energy for both the sulfate and phosphate ions, as evidenced in docking experiments, establishes that the 'C(α)NN' segment has an intrinsic affinity for anions. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation studies reveal that interaction with anion trigg

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC3596363 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature