A virtual library of constrained cyclic tetrapeptides that mimics all four side-chain orientations for over half the reverse turns in the protein data bank |
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Authors: | Sage Arbor Garland R. Marshall |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA |
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Abstract: | Reverse turns are often recognition sites for protein/protein interactions and, therefore, valuable potential targets for determining recognition motifs in development of potential therapeutics. A virtual combinatorial library of cyclic tetrapeptides (CTPs) was generated and the bonds in the low-energy structures were overlapped with canonical reverse-turn Calpha-Cbeta bonds (Tran et al., J Comput Aided Mol Des 19(8):551-566, 2005) to determine the utility of CTPs as reverse-turn peptidomimetics. All reverse turns in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) with a crystal structures resolution < or = 3.0 A were classified into the same known canonical reverse-turn Calpha-Cbeta bond clusters (Tran et al., J Comput Aided Mol Des 19(8):551-566, 2005). CTP reverse-turn mimics were compiled that mimicked both the relative orientations of three of the four as well as all four Calpha-Cbeta bonds in the reverse turns of the PDB. 54% of reverse turns represented in the PDB had eight or more CTPs structures that mimicked the orientation of all four of the Calpha-Cbeta bonds in the reverse turn. |
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Keywords: | Cyclic tetrapeptide Reverse turn Mimic Conformational search |
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