High torsional energy disulfides : relationship between cross-strand disulfides and right-handed staples
Haworth, Naomi L., Feng, Lina L. and Wouters, Merridee A. 2006, High torsional energy disulfides : relationship between cross-strand disulfides and right-handed staples, Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 155-168, doi: 10.1142/S0219720006001734.
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High torsional energy disulfides : relationship between cross-strand disulfides and right-handed staples
Redox-active disulfides are capable of being oxidized and reduced under physiological conditions. The enzymatic role of redox-active disulfides in thiol-disulfide reductases is well-known, but redox-active disulfides are also present in non-enzymatic protein structures where they may act as switches of protein function. Here, we examine disulfides linking adjacent β-strands (cross-strand disulfides), which have been reported to be redox-active. Our previous work has established that these cross-strand disulfides have high torsional energies, a quantity likely to be related to the ease with which the disulfide is reduced. We examine the relationship between conformations of disulfides and their location in protein secondary structures. By identifying the overlap between cross-strand disulfides and various conformations, we wish to address whether the high torsional energy of a cross-strand disulfide is sufficient to confer redox activity or whether other factors, such as the presence of the cross-strand disulfide in a strained β-sheet, are required.
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