Collagen Structured Hydration

Collagen is a triple-helical protein unique to the extracellular matrix, conferring rigidity and stability to tissues such as bone and tendon. For the [(PPG)10]3 collagen-mimetic peptide at room temperature, our molecular dynamics simulations show that these properties result in a remarkably ordered first hydration layer of water molecules hydrogen bonded to the backbone carbonyl (bb-CO) oxygen atoms. This originates from the following observations. The radius of gyration attests that the PPG triplets are organized along a straight line, so that all triplets (excepting the ends) are equivalent. The solvent-accessible surface area (SASA) for the bb-CO oxygens shows a repetitive regularity for every triplet. This leads to water occupancy of the bb-CO sites following a similar regularity. In the crystal-phase X-ray data, as well as in our 100 K simulations, we observe a 0-2-1 water occupancy in the P-P-G triplet. Surprisingly, a similar (0-1.7-1) regularity is maintained in the liquid phase, in spite of the sub-nsec water exchange rates, because the bb-CO sites rarely remain vacant. The manifested ordered first-shell water molecules are expected to produce a cylindrical electrostatic potential around the peptide, to be investigated in future work.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Biomolecules - 13(2023), 12 vom: 04. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Biswal, Satyaranjan [VerfasserIn]
Agmon, Noam [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

059QF0KO0R
9007-34-5
Collagen
Hydration
Hydrogen bond
Journal Article
Peptides
Radius of gyration
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Residence time
SASA
Solvents
Water

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 25.12.2023

Date Revised 04.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/biom13121744

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366272810