Interpenetrating Cubes In The X-Ray Crystallographic Structure Of A Peptide Derived From Medin(19-36)
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY(2020)
Abstract
Amyloidogenic peptides and proteins are rich sources of supramolecular assemblies. Sequences derived from well-known amyloids, including A beta, human islet amyloid polypeptide, and tau have been found to assemble as fibrils, nanosheets, ribbons, and nanotubes. The supramolecular assembly of medin, a 50-amino acid peptide that forms fibrillary deposits in aging human vasculature, has not been heavily investigated. In this work, we present an X-ray crystallographic structure of a cyclic beta-sheet peptide derived from the 19-36 region of medin that assembles to form interpenetrating cubes. The edge of each cube is composed of a single peptide, and each vertex is occupied by a divalent metal ion. This structure may be considered a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing a large peptide ligand. This work demonstrates that peptides containing Glu or Asp that are preorganized to adopt beta-hairpin structures can serve as ligands and assemble with metal ions to form MOFs.
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peptide,interpenetrating cubes,x-ray
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