The α helix dipole: Screened out?

Structure

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 849-855

  Sengupta, Durba ^a   Behera, Raghu Nath ^a   Smith, Jeremy C ^a   Ullmann, G Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DIPOLE; ELECTRICITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VACUUM;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 20444383550     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2005.03.010     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. N. Ben-Tal, and B. Honig Helix-helix interaction in lipid bilayers Biophys. J. 71 1996 3046 3050
2. H.M. Berman, J. Westbrook, and Z. Feng The Protein Data Bank Nucleic Acids Res. 28 2000 235 242
3. C. Breneman, and K.J. Wiberg Determining atom-centered monopoles from molecular electrostatic potentials: need for high sampling density in conformational analysis J. Comp. Chem. 11 1990 361 373
4. B.R. Brooks, R.E. Bruccoleri, B.D. Olafson, D.J. States, S. Swaminathan, and M. Karplus CHARMM: a program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculation J. Comp. Chem. 4 1983 187 217
5. T.E. Creighton Proteins: Structures and Molecular Properties 1993 WH Freeman and Co. New York
6. D.A. Doyle, J.M. Cabral, R.A. Pfuetzner, A. Kuo, J.M. Gulbis, S.L. Cohen, B.T. Chait, and R. MacKinnon The structure of the potassium channel: molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity Science 280 1998 69 77
7. J.A. Ernst, and A.T. Brunger High resolution structure, stability and synaptotagmin binding of a truncated neuronal snare complex J. Biol. Chem. 278 2003 8630 8636
8. J. Faraldo-Gomez, and B. Roux Electrostatics of ion stabilization in a clc chloride channel homologue from Escherichia coli J. Mol. Biol. 339 2004 981 1000
9. R.R. Gabdoulline, and R.C. Wade Effective charges for macromolecules in solvent J. Phys. Chem. 100 1996 3868 3878
10. E. Galoppini, and M.A. Fox Effect of the electrical field generated by the helix dipole on photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer in dichromorphic α-helical peptides J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118 1996 2299 2300
11. M.K. Gilson, and B. Honig Destabilization of an α-helix bundle protein by helix dipoles Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86 1989 1524 1528
12. W.G.J. Hol Effects of the a-helix dipole upon the functioning and structure of proteins and peptides Adv. Biophys. 19 1985 133 165
13. W.G.J. Hol, P.T. van Duijen, and H.J.C. Berendsen The α-helix dipole and the properties of proteins Nature 273 1978 443 446
14. W.G.J. Hol, L.M. Halie, and C. Sander Dipoles of the α-helix and β-sheet: their role in protein folding Nature 294 1981 532 536
15. W. Im, D. Beglov, and B. Roux Continuum solvation model: computation of electrostatic forces from numerical solutions to the poisson boltzmann equation Comp. Phys. Commun. 109 1998 1 17
16. H.V. Joshi, and M. Meier The effect of a peptide helix macrodipole on the pka of an asp side chain carboxylate J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118 1996 12038 12044
17. C. Lange, and C. Hunte Crystal structure of the yeast cytochrome bc1 complex with its bound substrate cytochrome c Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 2002 2800 2805
18. D.J. Lockhart, and P.S. Kim Internal stark effect measurement of the electric field at the amino terminus of an alpha helix Science 257 1992 947 951
19. J.S. Miller, R.J. Kennedy, and D.S. Kemp Solubilized, spaced polyalanines: a context-free system for determining amino acid α-helix propensities J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124 2002 945 962
20. M. Nina, D. Beglov, and B. Roux Atomic born radii for continuum electrostatic calculations based on molecular dynamics J. Phys. Chem. 101 1997 5239 5248
21. B. Roux, and R. MacKinnon The cavity and pore helices in kcsa K channel: electrostatic stabilization of monovalent cations Science 285 1999 100 102
22. D. Sengupta, L. Meinhold, D. Langosch, G.M. Ullmann, and J.C. Smith Understanding the energetics of helical-peptide orientation in membranes Proteins 58 2005 913 922
23. R.P. Sheridan, and L.C. Allen The electrostaic potential of the alpha helix Biophys. Chem. 11 1980 133 136
24. R.P. Sheridan, R.M. Levy, and F.R. Salemme α-helix dipole model and electrostatic stabilization of 4-α-helical proteins Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79 1982 4545 4549
25. E. Tajkhorshid, P. Nollert, M. Jensen, L.J.W. Miercke, J. O'Connel, R.M. Stroud, and K. Schulten Control of the selectivity of the aquaporin water channel family by global orientational tuning Science 296 2002 525 530
26. A. Wada The alpha helix as an electric macro dipole Adv. Biophys. 9 1976 1 63
27. J. Warwicker, and H.C. Watson Calculation of the electric potential in the active site cleft due to α-helix dipoles J. Mol. Biol. 157 1982 671 679
28. T.O. Yeates, H. Komiya, D.C. Rees, J.P. Allen, and G. Feher Structure of the reactions center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides r-26: membrane-protein interactions Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84 1987 6438 6442