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New peptide dendrimer with Lys-2Arg repeating units was recently studied experimentally by NMR (RSC Advances, 2019, 9, 18018) and tested as gene carrier successfully (Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2020, 21, 3138). The unusual slowing down of the orientational mobility of 2Arg spacers in this dendrimer was revealed. It has been suggested that this unexpected behavior is caused by the Arg-Arg pairing effect in water, which leads to entanglements between dendrimer branches. In this paper, we determine the reason for this slowing down using atomistic molecular dynamics simulation of this dendrimer. We present that the structural properties of Lys-2Arg dendrimer are close to those of the Lys-2Lys dendrimer at all temperatures (Polymers, 2020, 12, 1657). However, the orientational mobility of the H-H vector in CH 2-N groups of 2Arg spacers in Lys-2Arg dendrimer is significantly slower than the mobility of the same vector in the Lys-2Lys dendrimer. This result is in agreement with the recent NMR experiments for the same systems. We revealed that this difference is not due to the arginine-arginine pairing, but is due to the semiflexibility effect associated with the different contour length from CH 2-N group to the end of the side arginine or lysine segment in spacers.

Translated title of the contributionПочему ориентационная подвижность в аргининовых и лизиновых спейсерах пептидных дендримеров, предназначенных для доставки генов, различается?
Original languageEnglish
Article number9749
Pages (from-to)1-22
Number of pages22
JournalInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume21
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Dec 2020

    Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Spectroscopy
  • Catalysis
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

    Research areas

  • Computer simulation, Molecular dynamics, NMR, Peptide dendrimer, Spin-lattice relaxation time, Zeta potential

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