β-Sheet Structure Formation within Binary Blends of Two Spider Silk Related Peptides
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Abstract
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play an important role in molecular biology and medicine because their induced folding can lead to so-called conformational diseases, where β-amyloids play an important role. Still, the molecular folding process into the different substructures, such as parallel/antiparallel or extended β-sheet/crossed β-sheet is not fully understood. The recombinant spider silk protein eADF4(Cx) consisting of repeating modules C, which are composed of a crystalline (pep-c) and an amorphous peptide sequence (pep-a), can be used as a model system for IDP since it can assemble into similar structures. In this work, blend films of the pep-c and pep-a sequences were investigated to modulate the β-sheet formation by varying the molar fraction of pep-c and pep-a. Dichroic Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), circular dichroism, spectroscopic ellipsometry, atomic force microscopy, and IR nanospectroscopy were used to examine the secondary structure, the formation of parallel and antiparallel β-sheets, their orientation, and the microscopic roughness and phase formation within peptide blend films upon methanol post-treatment. New insights into the formation of filament-like structures in these silk blend films were obtained. Filament-like structures could be locally assigned to β-sheet-rich structures. Further, the antiparallel or parallel character and the orientation of the formed β-sheets could be clearly determined. Finally, the ideal ratio of pep-a and pep-c sequences found in the fibroin 4 of the major ampullate silk of spiders could also be rationalized by comparing the blend and spider silk protein systems.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 825-840 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Biomacromolecules |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 13 Feb 2023 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 36632028 |
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WOS | 000918819800001 |
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Keywords
- Adsorption, Amyloid fibrils, Atr-ftir, Block-copolymers, Dragline silk, Infrared-spectroscopy, Nmr, Polypeptides, Protein secondary structure, Spectra, Silk/chemistry, Protein Structure, Secondary, Peptides/chemistry, Recombinant Proteins, Fibroins/chemistry, Animals, Protein Conformation, beta-Strand, Spiders