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First Steps In Growth Of A Polypeptide Toward Β-Sheet Structure, U. Adhikari, Steve Scheiner
First Steps In Growth Of A Polypeptide Toward Β-Sheet Structure, U. Adhikari, Steve Scheiner
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The full conformational energy surface is examined for a molecule in which a dipeptide is attached to the same spacer group as another peptide chain, so as to model the seminal steps of β-sheet formation. This surface is compared with the geometrical preferences of the isolated dipeptide to extract the perturbations induced by interactions with the second peptide strand. These interpeptide interactions remove any tendency of the dipeptide to form a C5 ring structure, one of its two normally stable geometries. A C7 structure, the preferred conformation of the isolated dipeptide, remains as the global minimum in the full molecule. …