Ignoring stereochemistry how many different tripeptides

Ignoring stereochemistry, how many different tripeptides may exist that contain the same three amino acids as the molecule shown below? Nucleosomes typically consist of which of the following?

DNA II. Histones III. In which organelle of a eukaryotic cell is the pyrimidine uracil, as part of uridine triphosphate UTP , incorporated into nucleic acid? A drug that binds to tubulin molecules of plant cells and prevents the cells from assembling spindle microtubules would most likely cause the resulting plants or plant cells to have: A B C D greater genetic variability than the parent plants.

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Nucleosomes typically consist of which of the following? DNA II. Histones III. In which organelle of a eukaryotic cell is the pyrimidine uracil, as part of uridine triphosphate UTP , incorporated into nucleic acid?

The enzyme pepsin, which catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins in the stomach, has a pH optimum of 1. Under conditions of excess stomach acidity pH of 1. The most likely reason for this is that below a pH of 1. Ignoring stereochemistry, how many different tripeptides may exist that contain the same three amino acids as the molecule shown below?

A drug that binds to tubulin molecules of plant cells and prevents the cells from assembling spindle microtubules would most likely cause the resulting plants or plant cells to have: A B C D greater genetic variability than the parent plants.

Figure 5. Modulation of l -Trp self-assembly by incorporation of d -Trp. Figure 6. Single-crystal structural analysis of a—c l -Trp and d—f dl -Trp.

Figure 7. MD simulations of Trp crystals. Points showing 1 the top bilayer facet, 2 the facet parallel to aromatic zipper, and 3 the facet orthogonal to aromatic zipper. X-ray data CIF. Such files may be downloaded by article for research use if there is a public use license linked to the relevant article, that license may permit other uses. The authors thank Dr. Sigal Rencus-Lazar for help in scientific and language editing. More by Santu Bera. More by Bin Xue.

More by Pavel Rehak. More by Guy Jacoby. More by Wei Ji. More by Linda J. More by Roy Beck. More by Yi Cao. More by Ehud Gazit. Cite this: ACS Nano , 14 , 2 , — Article Views Altmetric -. Citations Abstract High Resolution Image. Metabolites are the simplest building blocks utilized by biological systems, performing a multitude of functions.

However, due to their simplicity, the use of unimolecular amino acid assemblies to design attractive material has been limited by the lack of chemical diversity and functional complexity. Chirality is a natural attribute of most biomolecules and bears universal significance for chemistry, physics, biology, and medicine. The nonpolar l -Asp crystal was converted into a conglomerate of mixed polar sectors by incorporating different amounts of d -Asp. Several research groups have studied the effect of chirality on the self-assembly nature of short peptides, which can mimic that of large proteins.

Due to the inherent properties of higher aggregation into ordered structures and their well-defined role in peptide self-assembly processes, aromatic amino acids l -Phe and l -Trp have been utilized for the design of interesting functionalities.

Moreover, exploring the effect of d -enantiomers on the self-assembly pattern and the molecular arrangement of the resultant structural organization of aromatic single amino acids could demonstrate an exciting approach for the development of potentially applicative materials. Recently, we have deciphered the coassembly rule for amino acids based on the matching of their interlayer separation in single-crystal structures.

Herein, we investigated the self-assembly kinetics and the mechanism of structure formation by pure Phe and Trp enantiomers. Next, we explored the role of chirality in the self-assembly and function of the amino acids and the effect of chirality on the recognition of amino acids.

The presence of the opposite chirality racemate was found to significantly alter the assembly kinetics and the resultant nanostructure morphologies and allowed the chirality-induced fabrication of different nanoarchitectures. Applying different experimental techniques, such as wide-angle X-ray scattering WAXS and molecular dynamics MD simulations, we demonstrated the differences in the mechanism of self-assembly and the structural organization of the single and mixed systems.

Thus, these smart materials fabricated by the dl -racemic mixture could act as attractive candidates for future nanotechnological applications. Results and Discussion.

However, the phase behavior of the mixed dl system was completely different. Moreover, in very short time, large flake-like structures were found to precipitate out from the solution, indicating a faster rate of aggregation for the dl -system. Figure 1 c—e shows high-resolution scanning electron microscope HR-SEM images of the self-assembled nanostructures formed by the pure enantiomers and their mixed systems.

Both l - and d -Phe formed micrometer-long singular fiber structures similar to the previously reported amyloid-like assemblies Figure 1 c,d. The formation of different types of morphologies coincided with their optical appearances over time, as observed from their turbidity assay.

The level of turbidity was low for the more compact nanofibrillar structures of pure l and d isomers, while increased turbidity was measured for the dl -system due to a higher degree of light scattering from the large flakes Figure 1 b.

High Resolution Image. To structurally characterize the self-assembled pure and mixed enantiomeric systems, X-ray scattering experiments were performed Figure 1 f—i. The corresponding spectrum showed peaks at 4. In contrast, the 2D image of the DL system showed a completely different pattern, indicating the presence of polycrystalline assemblies. The anisotropic scattering image suggested the flakes were preferentially oriented in certain directions Figure 1 h.

The presence of bright spots in particular places indicated significant deflection of scattering toward the specific directions.

The corresponding spectrum showed a shift of both peaks corresponding to the equatorial and lateral distances toward a higher d -spacing value, signifying an altered arrangement of d - and l -Phe molecules in the mixture Figure 1 i. The different assembly of Phe thus suggests an altered arrangement in dl -Phe that might provide a more strain-free environment to the molecules.

Recent advances in the field of mass spectrometry allow a detailed determination of the noncovalent interactions of small molecules with ordered biomolecular structures and metaclusters. This analysis clearly established the formation of an enantiomeric conjugate in the mixed system, accounting for the altered properties compared to the pure enantiomers.

The coassembly formation was further confirmed by circular dichroism CD spectroscopy Figure S4. The CD signal of the dl mixture was almost flat close to the baseline, indicating coassembly and the formation of an aggregate containing both enantiomers. To check whether the coassembly formation and subsequent fabrication of different composite materials induced interesting properties, we investigated the thermal and mechanical stability of the studied amino acid systems.

We used nanoindentation through AFM to measure the micromechanical properties of the pure and composite materials Figure 2 b—h. These data indicated a strong molecular packing in the dl -mixed system compared to the pure enantiomers, resulting in the formation of rigid materials displaying sufficiently high mechanostability to be useful for biomaterial applications.

We used atomistic molecular dynamics MD simulations to model Phe crystals. Since the structure of the racemic Phe crystal is not known, we simulated only one pure enantiomer, l -Phe crystal. First, we prepared small bilayer Phe crystals, with structures shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 a,b reveal that after 20 ns of simulations, these l -Phe crystals had a tendency to fold in both parallel and orthogonal directions relative to the aromatic zipper. This tendency toward folding might promote the crystal to grow in a linear fashion, most likely along the zipper. These simulations reveal that the chirality of amino acids and the lack of central symmetry in the crystals formed by these molecules promote crystal bending.

Moreover, crystals formed by enantiomers of the same amino acid should be mirror images of each other. Therefore, their simple combination would give rise to flat racemic crystals. Real racemic crystals would contain the same number of both enantiomers suitably packed in their elementary cells, thus producing flat crystals.

Next, we simulated the dynamics of l -Phe on the surfaces of the crystals and calculated the binding energies of amino acids nested on the crystal facets see Supporting Information. The results reveal that the top bilayer facet 1 in Figure 3 is highly stable, due to hydrogen-bonding networks between zwitterion groups of the amino acids, which keep the bilayers intact. Additional bilayers bind to the top bilayer through weaker C—H—H—C dispersion interactions, which would slow down growth in this direction.

The amino acids show a large mobility on the l -Phe crystal facets, which are parallel and orthogonal to the aromatic zipper facets 2, 3, respectively, in Figure 3. The amino acids in the facet parallel to the aromatic zipper facet 2 in Figure 3 show relatively strong binding with other amino acids in the same facet, but not with the remainder of the crystal.

In the facet orthogonal to the aromatic zipper facet 3 in Figure 3 , the situation is opposite. These results show that growth on the facet parallel to the aromatic zipper is more likely to continue and produce twisted 1D crystals. The d -isomer is only a mirror image of the l -isomer. Thus, the evolutions of the d -isomer will be a mirror image of the l -isomer and will also grow into 1D twisted structures. The chirality-induced structural modulation and consequent appearance of attractive mechanical properties of Phe inspired us to investigate the characteristics of another important aromatic amino acid, Trp.

Initially, the self-assembly nature of pure l -Trp was studied by measuring the size of the resultant nanostructures at increasing concentrations using dynamic light scattering DLS Figure 4 a. The self-assembled morphology was studied by transmission electron microscopy TEM. Short fibers 50— nm in diameter and several micrometers in length were observed Figures 4 c and S6 , similar to our earlier report.

ANS is a widely used fluorescent reagent that blue shifts with a higher quantum yield upon changing the surface environment from hydrophilic to hydrophobic as also observed for Phe. These dose-dependent changes of fluorescence maxima suggested a change of the environment toward higher hydrophobicity, probably due to aromatic interactions.

However, the indole N—H proton H a and the nearby proton H d shifted toward a higher ppm value, which specified the involvement of the N—H a proton in hydrogen bonding at higher concentrations and conferred a change of the electronic environment in the nearby region. To understand the effect of chirality on the self-assembly of l -Trp, we employed the d -Trp and thoroughly studied the effect in the racemic mixture.

ANS binding assay using d -Trp showed a similar change of environment from hydrophilic to hydrophobic, as also observed for l -Trp Figure S7. The characteristics of an equimolar mixture of d - and l -Trp were completely different from those of their individual pure enantiomers. The turbidity of the dl -Trp solution increased very rapidly during cooling, even at the lower concentrations, indicating a higher aggregation rate for the enantiomeric mixed system Figures 5 a and S5 , similar to dl -Phe.

The formation of composite materials by the equimolar mixture of the l - and d -enantiomers was further confirmed by mass spectrometry. CD spectra further confirmed the coassembly of the equimolar mixture of d - and l -Trp Figure S9. However, for the dl -mixed system, the spectrum was almost entirely flat and very close to the baseline, indicating the presence of racemic aggregates.

Similar to l -Trp, d -Trp formed short fibers, several micrometers in length Figure 5 c,e. In contrast, as observed in both SEM and TEM images, the dl -conjugate fabricated completely different nanostructures, with a crystalline flake-like morphology Figures 5 d,f and S The details of the molecular arrangement of the self-assembled nanostructures formed by pure and mixed enantiomers were studied by WAXS, allowing the investigation of the supramolecular organization of the different systems at a local scale Figure 5 g—j.

Pure l - or d -Trp produced powder diffraction 2D images with arc-centered intensity maxima, similar to pure Phe enantiomers Figure 5 g,h , reflecting the randomly oriented organization of the elongated structures. However, the presence of shorter fibers compared to Phe produced 2D scattering images that displayed a preferred orientation within the sample space, as each series of peaks was intensified along a specific angle red and yellow arrows in Figure 5 g. The spectrum containing all the peaks is shown in Figure 5 j.

The peak pertaining to the equatorial distance at 4. However, the 2D image of the dl -conjugate showed a clear difference from the pure enantiomers. The scattering pattern suggested the formation of polycrystalline randomly oriented materials Figure 5 i. The corresponding spectrum also showed an altered position of the peaks of both equatorial and meridional distances along with the appearance of several additional peaks, further validating the formation of a different composite Figure 5 j.

Moreover, alternation of the molecular packing was further supported by the inversion of the relative intensities of the meridional and equatorial peaks. To gain further insight into the mechanism of molecular arrangement of the pure enantiomer and conjugate assemblies, single-crystal structures of l -Trp 70 and dl -Trp grown from water were analyzed in detail Figure 6.

The differences in their packing better clarified the difference in the resultant self-assembled nanostructures. Along the crystallographic b -direction, the molecules were connected through head-to-tail H-bonding and fabricated a single molecular chain marked in pink in Figure 6 a. Along the a -axis, the molecules were connected in a sideways fashion through two H-bonds on each side and thus produced a tape-like arrangement marked in blue in Figure 6 a. The H-bond distances for different previously reported Trp crystals are compared in Supplementary Table S5.

For dl -Trp, a similar head-to-tail chain formation through H-bonding was observed Figure 6 d—f. Yet, the centrosymmetric dimer formation of two adjacent chains of dl -Trp could not take place in the structure of the single enantiomers, either l - or d -Trp. Moreover, the tape-like structural pattern of the pure enantiomer was missing in the arrangement of dl -Trp.

This additional stabilization of dl -Trp probably directed the self-assembly pattern of the racemic material toward a different conformation rather than the 1D fiber formed by the pure enantiomers.

These Trp systems were modeled like in Figure 3 , including the racemic Trp crystal structure. The crystals were again cut and simulated as before. Figure 7 a,b reveal that after 20 ns the pure l -Trp crystal has a tendency to fold in a direction parallel to the aromatic zipper, but it undulates along the orthogonal direction.

On the other hand, the mixed dl -Trp crystals stay on average flat, as shown in Figure 7 c,d, since their possible twists are compensated by the presence of both enantiomers. The mixed dl -Trp crystals might grow in 2D or 3D. In particular, the amino acids on the facet parallel to the aromatic zipper facet 2 in Figure 7 show small mobility and relatively strong binding energies.

In combination with the observed bending, it is likely that the crystal would grow in this 1D direction. In the dl -Trp crystal, the facet orthogonal to the aromatic zipper facet 3 in Figure 7 is more stable, while the facet parallel to the zipper is less stable.

This could be understood from the binding energies Tables S3 and S4 , showing that the same enantiomers have larger binding energies than opposite enantiomers Supporting Information. However, a flat racemic crystal should be able to easily grow in both directions.

Aromatic amino acids play a crucial role in the formation of functional structures by the self-assembly of proteins and peptides, the major components of life. Moreover, the experimental evidence presented here suggests different self-assembly kinetics and mechanisms for dl -composites of aromatic amino acids, allowing the fabrication of interesting materials with exciting physical properties compared to the pure enantiomers. Previously reported protein crystallography revealed that a racemic mixture of the enantiomeric forms of a protein molecule can crystallize in ways not obtainable by natural proteins.

The high aggregation propensity of dl -amino acids to form self-assembled structures compared to the pure enantiomers, as observed in the current study, also supports a similar phenomenon for single amino acids.

Moreover, the single-crystal structure analysis clearly demonstrated a favorable knob-to-hole packing of aromatic rings in the dl -mixture, which induced the easy growth of racemic crystals and the fabrication of self-assembled rigid materials. This study provides a different direction for chirality-induced tailor-made fabrication of futuristic functionalities based on natural systems for diverse nanotechnological applications.

Materials and Methods. Turbidity analysis for the pure and composite amino acids was conducted by preparing fresh solutions at different concentrations in deionized water. For dl -composites, 1 mg of each amino acids was similarly dissolved in 1 mL of deionized water. For dl -composites, 1 mg of each amino acid was similarly dissolved in 1 mL of deionized water. After 1 min, excess fluids were removed. The assembled structures were drop-cast over a thin Kapton film and left to dry in the presence of a magnetic field to produce aligned structures.

Calibration was performed using silver behenate. The scattering data of the empty Kapton film was collected as background and subtracted from the sample measurement. For fluorescent emission characterization, the solution was incubated in a clean quartz cuvette, and the spectra were collected using a FluoroMax-4 spectrofluorometer Horiba Jobin Yvon, Kyoto, Japan at ambient temperature. The excitation wavelength was set at nm with a slit of 5 nm and a step of 20 nm, and the emission wavelength was set at — nm with a slit of 5 nm and a step of 2 nm.

Deionized water was used as background and subtracted. The force curves were obtained using the commercial software from JPK and analyzed by a custom-written procedure based on Igor pro 6. The spring constant of the cantilevers was about N m —1. All AFM nanoindentation experiments were carried out at room temperature. In a typical experiment, the amino acid crystals were spread over the surface of a freshly cleaved mica substrate. Then, the cantilever was retracted and moved to another spot for the next cycle.

The indentation fit was performed using a custom-written Igor program and manually checked after the fitting. Each approaching force—deformation curve in the range of 30 nm, or from the contact point to the maximum indentation depth, if the maximum indentation depth was less than 30 nm, was fitted.

The measured point stiffness k meas is composed of the stiffness constants of the cantilever k can and the crystals k cry. Assuming that the crystal and the cantilever act as two serial springs, the point stiffness of the crystal can be calculated using eq 2. To estimate the material property of the crystals, we assumed that the mechanical behavior of the crystal could be described as linear elastic, which is a good approximation for solids under small strains.

Crystals used for data collection were grown using the vapor diffusion method. Each tube was sealed with Parafilm, in which a single small hole was pricked using a needle. The samples were placed inside a larger vessel filled with 2 mL of acetonitrile. Crystals typically grew within 7—8 days.

For data collection, crystals were coated in Paratone oil Hampton Research , mounted on a MiTeGen cryo-loop, and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. The diffraction data were processed using CrysAlisPro 1. Atoms were refined independently and anisotropically, with the exception of hydrogen atoms, which were placed in calculated positions and refined in a riding mode. Crystal data collection and refinement parameters are shown in Supplementary Table 6 , and the complete data can be found in the cif file as Supporting Information.

The crystallographic data have been deposited in the CCDC with nos. The TIP3P model was used for water molecules. A Particle Mesh Ewald 75 summation was used to calculate long-range Coulombic interactions, with a grid spacing of 1. Pair lists were Left-handed and mixed enantiomer crystals were constructed using crystal structures. Then, the crystals were released and simulated for ns.

First, the systems were minimized for steps, with heavy amino acid atoms constrained. Then, the systems were pre-equilibrated with the same constraints for 1 ns and a time step of 1 fs.

We calculated the enthalpy of amino acids binding to the crystal described in the previous paragraph , using NAMD energy plugin version 1. Enthalpy of binding was the sum of electrostatic and dispersion interactions, assuming Coulombic and 12—6 Lennard-Jones potentials, respectively. In the enthalpy calculations, the system parameters were kept the same as in the rest of the simulations. We calculated each enthalpy of binding every 10 ps for the entire 30 ns of simulation.

We normalized the enthalpy terms with respect to the number of mobile amino acids in each calculation and averaged them over all snapshots. Supporting Information. Author Information. Linda J. The authors declare no competing financial interest. Functional Metabolite Assemblies-A Review. Tadepalli, Sirimuvva; Slocik, Joseph M. American Chemical Society. A review. Through the use of the limited materials palette, optimally designed micro- and nanostructures, and tightly regulated processes, nature demonstrates exquisite control of light-matter interactions at various length scales.

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