Role of hydration in the phase transition of polypeptides investigated by NMR and Raman spectroscopy
2004
NMR, Raman spectroscopy and ab initio quantum-chemical calculations have been employed to investigate the role of the hydration water in the inverse temperature transition of elastin-derived biopolymers represented by poly(Gly-Val-Gly-Val-Pro) and poly(Ala-Val-Gly-Val-Pro). Temperature and concentration dependences of the Raman spectra measured for water solutions of polymers and of a low-molecular-weight model have been correlated with the vibrational frequencies calculated at the DFT (B3LYP) and MP2 levels for the peptide segment surrounded by a growing number of water molecules. The results indicate strong hydration before the transition that, in addition to water hydrogen-bonded to amide groups, includes hydrophobic hydration of non-polar groups by a dynamic cluster of several water molecules. According to 1 H longitudinal and transverse relaxation of HOD signals in D 2 O solutions, the number of water molecules motionally correlated with the polymer is about 4 per one amino acid residue.
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