Influence of Solvent and Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding on the Conformational Properties of O-linked Glycopeptides

Overview

Journal J Phys Chem B

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2011 Aug 10

PMID 21823626

Citations 25

Authors

Sairam S Mallajosyula

Alexander D MacKerell Jr

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Abstract

A detailed investigation of the conformational properties of all the biologically relevant O-glycosidic linkages using the Hamiltonian replica exchange (HREX) simulation methodology and the recently developed CHARMM carbohydrate force field parameters is presented. Fourteen biologically relevant O-linkages between the five sugars N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc), N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), D-glucose (Glc), D-mannose (Man), and L-fucose (Fuc) and the amino acids serine and threonine were studied. The force field was tested by comparing the simulation results of the model glycopeptides to various NMR (3)J coupling constants, NOE distances, and data from molecular dynamics with time-averaged restraints (tar-MD). The results show the force field to be in overall agreement with experimental and previous tar-MD simulations, although some small limitations are identified. An in-depth hydrogen bond and bridging water analysis revealed an interplay of hydrogen bonding and bridge water interactions influencing the geometry of the underlying peptide backbone, with the O-linkages favoring extended β-sheet and polyproline type II (PPII) conformations over the compact α(R)-helical conformation. The newly developed parameters were also able to identify hydrogen bonding and water mediated interactions between O-linked sugars and proteins. These results indicate that the newly developed parameters in tandem with HREX conformational sampling provide the means to study glycoproteins in the absence of targeted NMR restraint data.

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