CATCH Peptides Coassemble into Structurally Heterogeneous β-Sheet Nanofibers with Little Preference to β-Strand Alignment

Kong M. Wong, Qing Shao, Yiming Wang, Dillon T. Seroski, Renjie Liu, Annabelle H. Lint, Gregory A. Hudalla, Carol K. Hall, Anant K. Paravastu

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Abstract

Coassembling peptides offer an additional degree of freedom in the design of nanostructured biomaterials when compared to analogous self-assembling peptides. Yet, our understanding of how amino acid sequences encodes coassembled nanofiber structure is limited. Prior work on a charge-complementary pair, CATCH+ and CATCH- peptides, detected like-peptide nearest neighbors (CATCH+:CATCH+ and CATCH-:CATCH-) within coassembled β-sheet nanofibers; these self-associated peptide pairs marked a departure from an "ideal"coassembled structure. In this work, we employ solid-state NMR, isotope-edited FTIR, and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to evaluate the alignment of β-strands within CATCH peptide nanofibers. Both experimental and computational results suggest that CATCH molecules coassemble into structurally heterogeneous nanofibers, which is consistent with our observations in another coassembling system, the King-Webb peptides. Within β-sheet nanofibers, β-strands were found to have nearest neighbors aligned in-register parallel, in-register antiparallel, and out-of-register. In comparison to the King-Webb peptides, CATCH nanofibers exhibit a greater degree of structural heterogeneity. By comparing the amino acid sequences of CATCH and King-Webb peptides, we can begin to unravel sequence-to-structure relationships, which may encode more precise coassembled β-sheet nanostructures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4004-4015
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry B
Volume125
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 29 2021

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Funding

This research was supported by funds from the National Science Foundation Grants CBET-1743432 and OAC-1931430. The authors acknowledge the use of instruments in the NMR Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science ProgramCBET-1743432, OAC-1931430
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
    • Surfaces, Coatings and Films
    • Materials Chemistry

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