Structure of neuropeptide Y dimer in solution
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 205 (3), 1099-1106
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16878.x
Abstract
The structure of porcine neuropeptide Y in 0.05 M CD3COOD/D2O was determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Nuclear Overhauser spectra yielded 377 distances which define a helical segment formed by residues 11-36. An additional set of 24 distances were interpreted as intermolecular distances within a dimer. A combination of distance geometry calculations, energy minimization and molecular dynamics yielded a model of the dimer having antiparallel packing of two curved helical units whose hydrophobic sides form a well defined core. The N-terminus (residues 1-9) appears as an unstructured mobile segment. Large changes in the intrinsic fluorescence intensity of neuropeptide Y tyrosine residues allowed the determination of the dimer dissociation constant as 1.6 +/- 0.6 microM at pH 2-8 in aqueous buffers and also indicated the enclosure of several tyrosine residues in the hydrophobic environment of the interface region in the dimeric species. Fluorescence anisotropy data reveals the slow rotation of such shielded residues.Keywords
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