Steric Dependence of Chirality Effect in Surface-Mediated Peptide Assemblies Identified with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Amino acid chirality has been recognized as an important driving force in constructing peptide architectures, via interactions such as chirality-induced stereochemical effect. The introduction of site-specific chiral conversion of l- and d-amino acids in peptide sequences could enable the pursuit of the chirality effects in peptide assembly. In this work, we characterized the assemblies of heptapeptides with various side chain moieties and their chiral variants using STM. Specifically, two pairs of amino acids, Gln (Q) and Asn (N), Glu (E) and Asp (D), having one methylene difference in their side chains, are selected to elucidate the steric dependence of amino acid chiral effects on surface-bound peptide assemblies. The observed heptapeptide assembly structures reveal that chirality switching of a single amino acid is able to destabilize the surface-mediated peptide assemblies, and this disturbance effect can be positively correlated with the steric hindrance of amino acid side chains. Furthermore, the strength of the impact due to chiral conversion on heptapeptide assembly structure is noticeably dependent on the mutation sites, indicative of structural heterogeneity of chiral effects. These results could contribute to the molecular insights of chirality-induced stereochemical interactions in peptide assembly.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Nano letters - 19(2019), 8 vom: 14. Aug., Seite 5403-5409

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zheng, Yongfang [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Lanlan [VerfasserIn]
Zou, Yimin [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yanlian [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Amino Acids
Chirality effect
Journal Article
Peptide assembly
Peptides
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Scanning tunneling microscopy

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Date Completed 12.05.2020

Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01904

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM298794624