Issue 20, 2011

The interaction of lipid modified pseudopeptides with lipid membranes

Abstract

We have studied the structure of two lipopeptides based on the simple dipeptide building block L-Phe-D-Oxd. These peptides have been reported previously to form fiber-like materials. The lipopeptides synthesized here had the structures Cn2H(2n+1)CO-L-Phe-D-Oxd-OBn or Cn2H(2n+1)CO-D-Phe-L-Oxd-OBn with n = 5 or 11. Addition of the N-terminal lipid modification did not cause a major disturbance of the structures these molecules form. The lipid modifications themselves showed highly rigid structures as inferred from solid-state 2H NMR. The peptide backbone showed 13C NMR chemical shifts in agreement with β-sheet secondary structure. Addition of a lipid modification to the N-terminus is a common motif in biology to attach proteins to the membrane. Therefore, we also investigated the lipopeptides in the presence of synthetic POPC bilayers. Two different molecular species were detected under these circumstances: (i) lipopeptide monomers that showed chain order parameters similar to those of the host membrane, (ii) lipopeptide aggregates that exhibited very similar structures and dynamics as the crystalline aggregates. Overall, the lipopeptides showed a well defined and rigid secondary structure that is in agreement with fibrillar aggregates previously detected for those peptides without the lipid modification.

Graphical abstract: The interaction of lipid modified pseudopeptides with lipid membranes

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Apr 2011
Accepted
07 Jul 2011
First published
08 Jul 2011

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011,9, 6998-7006

The interaction of lipid modified pseudopeptides with lipid membranes

H. A. Scheidt, A. Sickert, T. Meier, N. Castellucci, C. Tomasini and D. Huster, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 6998 DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05652B

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