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Six new analogs of glucagon have been synthesized containing replacements at positions 19, 22, and 23. They were designed to study the correlation between predicted conformation in the 19-27 segment of the hormone and the conformation calculated from circular dichroism measurements and the observed activation of adenylate cyclase in the liver membrane. The analogs were [Val19]glucagon, [Val22]glucagon, [Glu23]glucagon, [Val19,Glu23]glucagon, [Glu22,Glu23]glucagon, and [Ala22,Ala23]glucagon. The structures predicted for the 19-27 segment ranged from strongly alpha helical to weakly beta sheet. The observed conformations varied as functions of amino acid composition, solvent, concentration, pH, and temperature but did not correlate well with prediction. There was, however, a correlation between predicted structure and activation of adenylate cyclase in rat liver membranes.
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