Journal article
The contribution of buried polar groups to the conformational stability of the GCN4 coiled coil
Journal of molecular biology, Vol.300(5), pp.1377-1387
07/28/2000
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3936
PMID: 10903875
Abstract
The dimeric interface of the leucine zipper coiled coil from GCN4 has been used to probe the contributions of hydrophobic and hydrogen bonding interactions to protein stability. We have determined the energetics of placing Ile or Asn residues at four buried positions in a two-stranded coiled coil. As expected, Ile is favored over Asn at these buried positions, but not as much as predicted by considering only the hydrophobic effect. It appears that interstrand hydrogen bonds form between the side-chains of the buried Asn residues and these contribute to the conformational stability of the coiled-coil peptides. However, these contributions are highly dependent on the locations of the Asn pairs. The effect of an Ile to Asn mutation is greatest at the N terminus of the peptide and decreases almost twofold as we move the substitution from the N to C-terminal heptads.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The contribution of buried polar groups to the conformational stability of the GCN4 coiled coil
- Creators
- Hai Zhu - Texas A&M UniversityScott A. Celinski - Texas A&M UniversityJ.Martin Scholtz - Texas A&M UniversityJames C. Hu - Texas A&M University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of molecular biology, Vol.300(5), pp.1377-1387
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3936
- PMID
- 10903875
- ISSN
- 0022-2836
- eISSN
- 1089-8638
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/28/2000
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration; Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984288729402771
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