Structure of condensed phase peptides: insights from vibrational circular dichroism and Raman optical activity techniques

TA Keiderling - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peptides and proteins are naturally chiral molecular systems so that sensing their structure
and conformation with chirality-based spectral methods is an obvious and long-used …

Understanding amyloid fibril formation using protein fragments: structural investigations via vibrational spectroscopy and solid-state NMR

B Martial, T Lefèvre, M Auger - Biophysical Reviews, 2018 - Springer
It is well established that amyloid proteins play a primary role in neurodegenerative
diseases. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type II diabetes, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob's diseases are …

Is supramolecular filament chirality the underlying cause of major morphology differences in amyloid fibrils?

D Kurouski, X Lu, L Popova, W Wan… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The unique enhanced sensitivity of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) to the formation and
development of amyloid fibrils in solution is extended to four additional fibril-forming proteins …

Kinetic intermediates in amyloid assembly

C Liang, R Ni, JE Smith, WS Childers… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In contrast to an expected Ostwald-like ripening of amyloid assemblies, the nucleating core
of the Dutch mutant of the Aβ peptide of Alzheimer's disease assembles through a series of …

Infrared, vibrational circular dichroism, and Raman spectral simulations for β-sheet structures with various isotopic labels, interstrand, and stacking arrangements …

WRW Welch, J Kubelka… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Infrared (IR), Raman, and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectral variations for different
β-sheet structures were studied using simulations based on density functional theory (DFT) …

The Amide I spectrum of proteins—Optimization of transition dipole coupling parameters using density functional theory calculations

CM Baronio, A Barth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
The amide I region of the infrared spectrum is related to the protein backbone conformation
and can provide important structural information. However, the interpretation of the …

Empirical maps for the calculation of amide I vibrational spectra of proteins from classical molecular dynamics simulations

E Małolepsza, JE Straub - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014 - ACS Publications
New sets of parameters (maps) for calculating amide I vibrational spectra for proteins
through a vibrational exciton model are proposed. The maps are calculated as a function of …

The interplay of aggregation, fibrillization and gelation of an unexpected low molecular weight gelator: glycylalanylglycine in ethanol/water

S Farrell, D DiGuiseppi, N Alvarez… - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels formed by polypeptides could be much-favored tools for drug delivery because
their main ingredients are generally biodegradable. However, the gelation of peptides in …

Chirality and chiroptical properties of amyloid fibrils

W Dzwolak - Chirality, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality of amyloid fibrils‐linear beta‐sheet‐rich aggregates of misfolded protein chains‐
often manifests in morphological traits such as helical twist visible in atomic force …

Insight into the Packing Pattern of β2 Fibrils: A Model Study of Glutamic Acid Rich Oligomers with 13C Isotopic Edited Vibrational Spectroscopy

H Chi, WRW Welch, J Kubelka… - Biomacromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
Polyglutamic acid at low pH forms aggregates and self-assembles into a spiral, fibril-like
superstructure formed as a β2-type sheet conformation that has a more compact intersheet …