The deletion of the C-terminal arginine of the anaphylatoxin protein C5a reduces it receptor binding affinity.Understanding how C-terminal arginine affects the structure and bioactivity of C5a is important for the dev...The deletion of the C-terminal arginine of the anaphylatoxin protein C5a reduces it receptor binding affinity.Understanding how C-terminal arginine affects the structure and bioactivity of C5a is important for the development of C5a C-terminal mimics as drug candidates.Herein,we report the total chemical synthesis of rat C5a and its D-enantiomer with its C-terminal arginine deleted,namely L-rC5a-desArg and D-rC5a-desArg.The structure of rC5a-desArg was then determined by racemic crystallography for the first time.The C-terminal residues of rC5a-Arg were found to expand from the fourth helix in a continuous helical confo rmation.This C-terminal conformation is significantly different from that of the previously reported full-length of C5a,indicating that the deletion of C-terminal arginine residue could result in the destruction of a positively charged surface formed by two adjacent Arg residues in C5a.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFA0505200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21532004,21807001,91753205,81621002,21621003)。
文摘The deletion of the C-terminal arginine of the anaphylatoxin protein C5a reduces it receptor binding affinity.Understanding how C-terminal arginine affects the structure and bioactivity of C5a is important for the development of C5a C-terminal mimics as drug candidates.Herein,we report the total chemical synthesis of rat C5a and its D-enantiomer with its C-terminal arginine deleted,namely L-rC5a-desArg and D-rC5a-desArg.The structure of rC5a-desArg was then determined by racemic crystallography for the first time.The C-terminal residues of rC5a-Arg were found to expand from the fourth helix in a continuous helical confo rmation.This C-terminal conformation is significantly different from that of the previously reported full-length of C5a,indicating that the deletion of C-terminal arginine residue could result in the destruction of a positively charged surface formed by two adjacent Arg residues in C5a.
