Charged single alpha-helix: a versatile protein structural motif

Proteins
Dániel SüvegesLászló Nyitray

Abstract

A few highly charged natural peptide sequences were recently suggested to form stable alpha-helical structures in water. In this article we show that these sequences represent a novel structural motif called "charged single alpha-helix" (CSAH). To obtain reliable candidate CSAH motifs, we developed two conceptually different computational methods capable of scanning large databases: SCAN4CSAH is based on sequence features characteristic for salt bridge stabilized single alpha-helices, whereas FT_CHARGE applies Fourier transformation to charges along sequences. Using the consensus of the two approaches, a remarkable number of proteins were found to contain putative CSAH domains. Recombinant fragments (50-60 residues) corresponding to selected hits obtained by both methods (myosin 6, Golgi resident protein GCP60, and M4K4 protein kinase) were produced and shown by circular dichroism spectroscopy to adopt largely alpha-helical structure in water. CSAH segments differ substantially both from coiled-coil and intrinsically disordered proteins, despite the fact that current prediction methods recognize them as either or both. Analysis of the proteins containing CSAH motif revealed possible functional roles of the corresponding segment...Continue Reading

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