TY  - JOUR
ID  - pittir17225
UR  - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17225/
IS  - 7
A1  - Asciutto, EK
A1  - Mikhonin, AV
A1  - Asher, SA
A1  - Madura, JD
Y1  - 2008/02/19/
N2  - We demonstrate a calculated ?-helix peptide folding energy landscape which accurately simulates the first experimentally measured ?-helix melting energy landscape. We examine a 21-amino acid, mainly polyalanine peptide and calculate the free energy along the ? Ramachandran angle secondary folding coordinate. The experimental free energy landscape was determined using UV resonance Raman spectroscopy. The relative free energy values are very close as are the equilibrium peptide conformations. We find 2.3 kcal/mol activation barriers between the ?-helix-like and PPII-like basins. We also find that the ?-helix-like conformations are quite defective and the ?-helix-like structure dynamically samples 310-helix and ?-bulges. © 2008 American Chemical Society.
JF  - Biochemistry
VL  - 47
SN  - 0006-2960
TI  - Computational and experimental determination of the ?-helix unfolding reaction coordinate
SP  - 2046 
AV  - public
EP  -  2050
ER  -