High pressure FTIR study of intramolecular hydrogen bonding and conformation of a small peptide in solution |
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Authors: | Kenji Tonan Shun-ichi Ikawa |
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Affiliation: | Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan |
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Abstract: | Effect of pressure on conformational equilibria of a small peptide N-acetyl-l-Pro-l-Leu-Gly-NH2 in a chloroform solution has been studied by FTIR spectroscopy. Absorption in the NH stretching region was measured at pressures in the 1–1080 bar range and at 296 K, and decomposed into component bands by least-squares fitting. Intensity ratios of bands which were assigned to a hydrogen-bond-free conformer and intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded conformers with 10- and 13-membered hydrogen bonded rings, respectively, were examined as a function of pressure. It was found that the conformer with the 13-membered ring has definitely smaller partial molar volume than the other two conformers which have nearly the same volume with each other. On the basis of a simple dielectric model, we have shown that the conformer with the 13-membered hydrogen-bonded ring has a considerably large dipole moment which is consistent with the α-helical structure suggested by the previous variable-temperature FTIR study. |
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Keywords: | Peptide Conformation Hydrogen bond Pressure FTIR |
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