Local geometry of polypeptide chains Elements of secondary structure ( turns )
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LOCAL GEOMETRY OF POLYPEPTIDE CHAINS
ELEMENTS OF SECONDARY STRUCTURE (TURNS)
Levels of protein structure organization
Atom symbols and numbering in amino acids
Chirality
Enantiomers
Phenomenological manifestation of chiraliy: optical dichroism (rotation of the plane of polarized light).
Representation of geometry of molecular systems
• Cartesian coordinates• describe absolute geometry of a system,• versatile with MD/minimizing energy, • need a molecular graphics program to visualize.
• Internal coordinates• describe local geometry of an atom wrt a selected reference
frame,• with some experience, local geometry can be imagined
without a molecular graphics software, • might cause problems when doing MD/minimizing energy
(curvilinear space).
z
x yxH(6)
yH(6)
Cartesian coordinate system
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å) C(1) 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 O(2) 0.000000 0.000000 1.400000 H(3) 1.026719 0.000000 -0.363000 H(4) -0.513360 -0.889165 -0.363000 H(5) -0.513360 0.889165 -0.363000 H(6) 0.447834 0.775672 1.716667
zH(6)
C(1)
O(2)
H(3)
H(4)
H(5)
H(6)
Internal coordinate system
i dij ijk ijkl j k lC(1) O(2) 1.40000 * 1H(3) 1.08900 * 109.47100 * 1 2H(4) 1.08900 * 109.47100 * 120.00000 * 1 2 3H(5) 1.08900 * 109.47100 * -120.00000 * 1 2 3H(6) 0.95000 * 109.47100 * 180.00000 * 2 1 5
C(1)
O(2)
H(3)
H(4)
H(5)
H(6)
Bond length
Bond (valence) angle
Dihedral (torsional) angle
The C-O-H plane is rotated counterclockwise about the C-O bond from the H-C-O plane.
Improper dihedral (torsional) angle
Bond length calculation
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Bond angle calculation
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Dihedral angle calculation
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dx
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C(1)
H(3)
O(2)
H(4)
H(5)
H(6)
Calculation of Cartesian coordinates in a local reference frame from internal coordinates
Need to bring the coordinates to the global coordinate system
localTglobal
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globali
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i-2
i-1
i
i+1
di-1
di
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i+1
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Polymer chains
i-2
i-1
i
i+1
di-1
di+1
i-1
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i-1
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i-1
i+1
pi-1
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For regular polymers (when there are „blocks” inside such as in the right picture, pi is a full translation vector and TiRi is a full transformation matrix).
Ring closure
n-1
n
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dn
d2
n
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n
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n-2
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n-3
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N. Go and H.A. Scheraga, Macromolecules, 3, 178-187 (1970)
60% 40%
Hybrid of two canonical structures
Peptide bond geometry
Electronic structure of peptide bond
Peptide bond: planarity
The partially double character of the peptide bond results in
•planarity of peptide groups
•their relatively large dipole moment
Side chain conformations: the angles
1=0
1 2 3
Dihedrals with which to describe polypeptide geometry
main chain
side chain
Skan z wykresem energii
Peptide group: cis-trans isomerization
Because of peptide group planarity, main chain conformation is effectively defined by the and angles.
Side chain conformations
The dihedral angles with which to describe the geometry of disulfide bridges
Some and pairs are not allowed due to steric overlap (e.g, ==0o)
The Ramachandran map
Conformations of a terminally-blocked amino-acid residue
C7eq
C7ax
E Zimmerman, Pottle, Nemethy, Scheraga, Macromolecules, 10, 1-9 (1977)
Energy minima of therminally-blocked alanine with the ECEPP/2 force field
- and -turns
-turn (i+1=-79o, i+1=69o) -turns
Types of -turns in proteins
Hutchinson and Thornton, Protein Sci., 3, 2207-2216 (1994)
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