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Light and heat control over secondary structure and amyloid-like fiber formation in an overcrowded-alkene-modified Trp zipper
The external photocontrol over peptide folding, by the incorporation of molecular photoswitches into their structure, provides a powerful tool to study biological processes. However, it is limited so far to switches that exhibit only a rather limited geometrical change upon photoisomerization and th...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Royal Society of Chemistry
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5512536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28757990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5sc02735g |
Sumario: | The external photocontrol over peptide folding, by the incorporation of molecular photoswitches into their structure, provides a powerful tool to study biological processes. However, it is limited so far to switches that exhibit only a rather limited geometrical change upon photoisomerization and that show thermal instability of the photoisomer. Here we describe the use of an overcrowded alkene photoswitch to control a model β-hairpin peptide. This photoresponsive unit undergoes a large conformational change and has two thermally stable isomers which has major influence on the secondary structure and the aggregation of the peptide, permitting the phototriggered formation of amyloid-like fibrils. |
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