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Short peptides spanning the helicoidal sequences of the uteroglobin monomer (crystal forms P21 and C2221) were synthesized and studied by circular dichroism spectroscopy. None of them showed any secondary structure in the absence of HFIP. However, most peptides achieved a helical conformation when this structuring agent was used, with the exception of the analogue corresponding to the helicoidal fragment 19–24 (helix II, crystal P21). These results indicate that other factors, such as interchain interactions, have to contribute to helix stabilization in the molecule. On the other hand, while peptides corresponding to N- and C-terminal fragments that contain the first and fourth helices of the monomer, respectively (1–14 and 48–70) achieved a β-like structure when 10–15% of HFIP was used, this behaviour was not observed when TFE was used. Moreover, substitution of cysteine by α-aminobutyric acid at position 3 increased both the helicity of fragment 1–14 and its ability to adopt a β-like structure, but the opposite effect was observed for fragment 48–70 when α-aminobutyric acid was introduced at position 69. These results indicate that this part of the protein might be sensitive to the chemical environment it is exposed to and that the two cysteine residues at positions 3 and 69 of the monomer could play a different role in the folding process.
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Nicolás, E., Bacardit, J., Ferrer, T. et al. CD studies of peptides that mimic the four helicoidal sequences of the uteroglobin monomer. Lett Pept Sci 2, 353–362 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00119999
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