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. 1999 Nov;8(11):2312–2329. doi: 10.1110/ps.8.11.2312

The role of position a in determining the stability and oligomerization state of alpha-helical coiled coils: 20 amino acid stability coefficients in the hydrophobic core of proteins.

K Wagschal 1, B Tripet 1, P Lavigne 1, C Mant 1, R S Hodges 1
PMCID: PMC2144206  PMID: 10595534

Abstract

We describe here a systematic investigation into the role of position a in the hydrophobic core of a model coiled-coil protein in determining coiled-coil stability and oligomerization state. We employed a model coiled coil that allowed the formation of an extended three-stranded trimeric oligomerization state for some of the analogs; however, due to the presence of a Cys-Gly-Gly linker, unfolding occurred from the same two-stranded monomeric oligomerization state for all of the analogs. Denaturation from a two-stranded state allowed us to measure the relative contribution of 20 different amino acid side chains to coiled-coil stability from chemical denaturation profiles. In addition, the relative hydrophobicity of the substituted amino acid side chains was assessed by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography and found to correlate very highly (R = 0.95) with coiled-coil stability. We also determined the effect of position a in specifying the oligomerization state using ultracentrifugation as well as high-performance size-exclusion chromatography. We found that nine of the analogs populated one oligomerization state exclusively at peptide concentrations of 50 microM under benign buffer conditions. The Leu-, Tyr-, Gln-, and His-substituted analogs were found to be exclusively three-stranded trimers, while the Asn-, Lys-, Orn-, Arg-, and Trp-substituted analogs formed exclusively two-stranded monomers. Modeling results for the Leu-substituted analog showed that a three-stranded oligomerization state is preferred due to increased side-chain burial, while a two-stranded oligomerization state was observed for the Trp analog due to unfavorable cavity formation in the three-stranded state.

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