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[en] Spiders synthesize several kinds of silk fibers. In the primary structure of spider silk, one of the major ampullate (dragline, frame) silks, spidroin 1, and flagelliform silk (core fibers of adhesive spiral), there are common repeated X-Gly-Gly (X = Ala, Leu, Pro, Tyr, Glu, and Arg) sequences, which are considered to be related to the elastic character of these fibers. In this paper, two dimensional spin diffusion solid-state NMR under off magic angle spinning (OMAS), 13C chemical shift contour plots, and Rotational Echo DOuble Resonance (REDOR) were applied to determine the torsion angles of one Ala and two kinds of Gly residues in the Ala-Gly-Gly sequence of 13C=O isotope-labeled (Ala-Gly-Gly)10. The torsion angles were determined to be (φ, ψ) = (-90 deg., 150 deg.) within an experimental error of ±10 deg. for each residue. This conformation is characterized as 31 helix which is in agreement with the structure proposed from the X-ray powder diffraction pattern of poly(Ala-Gly-Gly). The 31 helix of (Ala-Gly-Gly)10 does not change by formic acid treatment although (Ala-Gly)15 easily changes from the silk I conformation (the structure of Bombyx mori silk fibroin before spinning in the solid state) to silk II conformation (the structure of the silk fiber after spinning) by such treatment. Thus, the 31 helix conformation of (Ala-Gly-Gly)10 is considered very stable. Furthermore, the torsion angles of the 16th Leu residue of (Leu-Gly-Gly)10 were also determined as (φ, ψ) = (-90 deg., 150 deg.) and this peptide is also considered to take 31 helix conformation
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Copyright (c) 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Journal of Biomolecular NMR; ISSN 0925-2738; ; v. 25(2); p. 91-103
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AMINO ACIDS, ANIMALS, ARACHNIDS, ARTHROPODS, CARBON ISOTOPES, CARBOXYLIC ACIDS, COHERENT SCATTERING, DIFFRACTION, EVEN-ODD NUCLEI, INSECTS, INVERTEBRATES, ISOTOPES, LEPIDOPTERA, LIGHT NUCLEI, MAGNETIC RESONANCE, MONOCARBOXYLIC ACIDS, MOTHS, NUCLEI, ORGANIC ACIDS, ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, PROTEINS, RESONANCE, SCATTERING, STABLE ISOTOPES
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