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Dynamics of aromatic amino-acid residues in globular conformation of basic pancreatic trypsin-inhibitor (bpti) .2. Semiempirical energy calculations

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authors

  • Hetzel, R.
  • Wuthrich, Kurt
  • Deisenhofer, J.
  • Huber, R.

publication date

  • 1976

journal

  • Biophysics of Structure and Mechanism  Journal

abstract

  • The molecular conformation of the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) is known in considerable detail from both X-ray studies in single crystals and NMR studies in solution. The NMR experiments showed that the aromatic rings of the phenylalanyl and tyrosyl residues can undergo rapid rotational motions about the C beta--Cv bond. The present paper describes a model investigation of the mechanistic aspects of these intramolecular rotational motions. From calculations of the conformational energies for molecular species derived from the X-ray structure by rotations of individual aromatic rings, it was apparent that the rotational motions of the aromatics could only be understood in a flexible structure. Flexibility was simulated by allowing the protein to relax to an energetically favorable conformation for each of the different rotation states of the aromatic rings. It was then of particular interest to investigate how the perturbations caused by different rotation states of the aromatic rings were propagated in the protein structure. It was found that the rotation axes C beta--Cv were only slightly affected (delta X1 approximately less than 20 degrees. The most sizeable perturbations are caused by through space interactions with nearby atoms, which move away from the ring center and thus release the steric hindrance opposing the rotational motions. The values for the energy barriers obtained from the energy minimization are of the same order of magnitude as those measured by NMR.

subject areas

  • Amino Acids
  • Aprotinin
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Models, Chemical
  • Phenylalanine
  • Protein Conformation
  • Tyrosine
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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0340-1057

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/bf00863707

PubMed ID

  • 1085644
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start page

  • 159

end page

  • 180

volume

  • 2

issue

  • 2

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