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Published March 21, 2011 | Accepted Version
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Homoisoleucine: A Translationally Active Leucine Surrogate of Expanded Hydrophobic Surface Area

Abstract

Hil of a strong peptide! Homoisoleucine (Hil) serves as an effective surrogate for leucine with respect to protein translation in bacterial cells. Replacement of Leu by Hil stabilizes coiled-coil peptides, as shown by the elevation of the thermal denaturation temperature. The increase in denaturation temperature is larger than that observed previously for replacement of Leu by trifluoroleucine.

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© 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Received: December 9, 2010; Published online on February 15, 2011. We thank Shelly Tzlil for assistance in implementing the model for thermal unfolding of coiled-coil peptides in Matlab. This research was supported by NIH grant GM62523. J.A.V. was supported in part by an N.D.S.E.G. Fellowship; J.D.F. was supported in part by an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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