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| Home > Articles > Published articles > Drastic effect of the peptide sequence on the copper-binding properties of tripeptides and the electrochemical behaviour of their copper(II) complexes |
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química) (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica)
| Date: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | The binding and electrochemical properties of the complexes CuII-HAH, CuII-HWH, CuII-Ac-HWH, CuII-HHW, and CuII-WHH have been studied by using NMR and UV/Vis spectroscopies, CV, and density functional calculations. The results obtained highlight the importance of the peptidic sequence on the coordination properties and, consequently, on the redox properties of their CuII complexes. For CuII-HAH and CuII-HWH, no cathodic processes are observed up to −1. 2 V; that is, the complexes exhibit very high stability towards copper reduction. This behaviour is associated with the formation of very stable square-planar (5,5,6)-membered chelate rings (ATCUN motif), which enclose two deprotonated amides. In contrast, for non-ATCUN CuII-Ac-HWH, CuII-HHW complexes, simulations seem to indicate that only one deprotonated amide is enclosed in the coordination sphere. In these cases, the main electrochemical feature is a reductive irreversible one electron-transfer process from CuII to CuI, accompanied with structural changes of the metal coordination sphere and reprotonation of the amide. Finally, for CuII-WHH, two major species have been detected: one at low pH (<5), with no deprotonated amides, and another one at high pH (>10) with an ATCUN motif, both species coexisting at intermediate pH. The present study shows that the use of CV, using glassy carbon as a working electrode, is an ideal and rapid tool for the determination of the redox properties of CuII metallopeptides. |
| Grants: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CTQ2015-70371-REDT Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CTQ2015-65439-R Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CTQ2014-59544-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CTQ2014-55293-P Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-482 |
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| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
| Subject: | Copper ; Cyclic voltammetry ; Density functional calculations ; Electrochemistry ; NMR spectroscopy |
| Published in: | Chemistry, Vol. 24, issue 20 (April 2018) , p. 5153-5162, ISSN 1521-3765 |
