Probing the competition between secondary structures and local preferences in gas phase isolated peptide backbones

W Chin, F Piuzzi, I Dimicoli, M Mons - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Combining laser desorption with a supersonic expansion together with the selectivity of
IR/UV double resonance spectroscopy makes it possible to isolate and characterise the gas …

First-principles data set of 45,892 isolated and cation-coordinated conformers of 20 proteinogenic amino acids

M Ropo, M Schneider, C Baldauf, V Blum - Scientific data, 2016 - nature.com
We present a structural data set of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their amino-
methylated and acetylated (capped) dipeptides. Different protonation states of the backbone …

Tailor‐made computational protocols for precise characterization of small biological building blocks using QM and MM approaches

B Chandramouli, S Del Galdo, G Mancini… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Computational modeling involving Quantum Mechanics (QM) and Molecular
Mechanics (MM) calculations are widely utilized to unveil the atomic‐molecular properties …

Conformations of N-Acetyl-l-Prolinamide by Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

S Sul, D Karaiskaj, Y Jiang, NH Ge - The journal of physical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy has been applied to study the
conformations of a model dipeptide, N-acetyl-l-prolinamide (AcProNH2) in deuterated …

Conformational Analysis of l-Prolines in Water

AE Aliev, D Courtier-Murias - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007 - ACS Publications
The results of the ring conformational analysis of l-proline, N-acetyl-l-proline, and trans-4-
hydroxy-l-proline by NMR combined with calculations using density functional theory (DFT) …

Conformations and vibrational spectra of a model tripeptide: change of secondary structure upon micro-solvation

H Zhu, M Blom, I Compagnon, AM Rijs, S Roy… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Mid-infrared (IR) hole burning spectra of the model tripeptide Z-Aib-Pro-NHMe (Z=
benzyloxycarbonyl) in gas phase and its micro-clusters with one and two methanol …

Conformational preferences of α-substituted proline analogues

A Flores-Ortega, AI Jiménez, C Cativiela… - The Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
DFT calculations at the B3LYP/6-31+ G (d, p) level have been used to investigate how the
replacement of the α hydrogen by a more sterically demanding group affects the …

Mid-and near-infrared spectra of conformers of H-Pro-Trp-OH

T Häber, K Seefeld, K Kleinermanns - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We present near-and mid-infrared− UV double resonance spectra of the natural dipeptide
H− Pro-Trp− OH. Two conformers are present in the supersonic expansion: a stretched …

Probing the γ‐turn in a short proline dipeptide chain

C Cabezas, M Varela, JL Alonso - ChemPhysChem, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The small peptide derived from proline, N‐acetyl‐prolinamide (Ac‐Pro‐NH2), has been
investigated using a combination of Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy with laser …

Conformations of proline analogues having double bonds in the ring

A Flores-Ortega, J Casanovas, D Zanuy… - The Journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The intrinsic conformational preferences of proline analogues having double bonds
between carbon atoms in their rings have been investigated using quantum mechanical …