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Temperature-dependent helix-coil transition of an alanine based peptide
C Y Huang1, J W Klemke, Z Getahun
1Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Abstract:
The helix-coil transition of a synthetic alpha-helical peptide (the D-Arg peptide), Ac-YGG(KAAAA)(3)-CO-D-Arg-CONH(2), was studied by static far-UV circular dichroism (CD) and time-resolved infrared spectroscopy coupled with the laser-induced temperature-jump technique for rapid relaxation initiation. Equilibrium thermal unfolding measurements of the D-Arg peptide monitored by CD spectroscopy reveal an apparent two-state helix-coil transition, with a thermal melting temperature around 10 degrees C. Time-resolved infrared (IR) measurements following a laser-induced temperature jump, however, reveal biphasic (or multiphasic) relaxation kinetics. The fast phase rises within the 20 ns response time of the detection system. The slow phase has a decay lifetime of approximately 140 ns at 300 K and exhibits monotonic temperature dependence with an apparent activation energy around 15.5 kcal/mol.
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