Table 3.
Conformational preferences of Asn and glyco-Asn residues at the (experimentally introduced) glycosylation sites in heptapeptide sequences, depicted as percent of conformers in α-helix, β-sheet, or turn/αL conformations (see SI Text for definitions)
| Pseudo-WT | Glycosylated pseudo-WT | ||||||
| α-Helix | β-Sheet | Turn/αL | α-Helix | β-Sheet | Turn/αL | ||
| N5 | 0.87 ± 0.03 | 0.06 ± 0.01 | 0.07 ± 0.02 | 0.66 ± 0.05 | 0.19 ± 0.03 | 0.14 ± 0.04 | |
| A13N | 0.39 ± 0.03 | 0.06 ± 0.02 | 0.55 ± 0.01 | 0.34 ± 0.08 | 0.43 ± 0.07 | 0.19 ± 0.08 | |
| K20N | 0.84 ± 0.05 | 0.07 ± 0.02 | 0.09 ± 0.05 | 0.59 ± 0.07 | 0.20 ± 0.04 | 0.19 ± 0.04 | |
| V27N | 0.69 ± 0.04 | 0.07 ± 0.02 | 0.24 ± 0.02 | 0.43 ± 0.05 | 0.32 ± 0.03 | 0.23 ± 0.06 | |
| N60 | 0.88 ± 0.02 | 0.05 ± 0.01 | 0.07 ± 0.02 | 0.90 ± 0.02 | 0.06 ± 0.01 | 0.03 ± 0.02 | |
| K73N | 0.81 ± 0.03 | 0.11 ± 0.03 | 0.08 ± 0.05 | 0.34 ± 0.04 | 0.64 ± 0.04 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | |
| A78N | 0.90 ± 0.04 | 0.04 ± 0.01 | 0.06 ± 0.03 | 0.69 ± 0.05 | 0.25 ± 0.03 | 0.05 ± 0.02 | |
Structures with dihedral angles not in one of these categories comprised < 0–4% of the conformational ensembles. The data were obtained from a backbone dihedral angle analysis of structures generated using REMD simulations of Im7 heptapeptide subsequences.