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Formation of Ordered Biomolecular Structures by the Self-assembly of Short Peptides
Published on: November 21, 2013
Using solution-phase NMR spectroscopy to study the folding and supramolecular assembly of conformationally
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States.
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Conformationally constrained β-sheet peptides are a valuable model system for studying the folding and supramolecular assembly of aggregation-prone peptides. Understanding how these peptides assemble into soluble oligomers is central to understanding the molecular assembly of amyloid diseases. This chapter describes how to study the folding and supramolecular assembly of β-sheet peptides by solution-phase NMR spectroscopy. First, the chapter describes how to prepare an NMR sample and acquire NMR data. Then, the chapter describes how to assign residues and identify spectroscopic hallmarks of β-sheet folding. Next, the chapter describes how to use isotopic labeling to verify key intermolecular contact. The chapter concludes with the spectroscopic hallmarks of supramolecular assembly. This chapter focuses on the β-sheet peptides but can be generalized to the studying the folding and supramolecular assembly of a wide variety of peptides.
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