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The results of a conformational study on the C terminal hexapeptide of Somatostatin are presented. Semi-empirical energy calculations and high resolution NMR methods have been used to obtain information on the conformational properties of SRIF9-14 in [2H6]dimethylsulfoxide and 2H2O. It is concluded from the energy calculations that the peptide has an averaged conformation in which semi extended and folded structures are important. Only some of the folded conformations can explain the chemical shift differences between the amino acid residues Thr10 and Thr12 as a ring current shift by the Phe11 aromatic ring on Thr10. The nonequivalence is more pronounced in dimethyl-sulfoxide (0.23--0.15 ppm) where it decreases with increasing temperature towards the temperature independent value in 2H2O (0.03 ppm). This suggests that the folded conformations are somewhat predominant in dimethylsulfoxide solutions. In 2H2O the semi extended and folded structures are statistically equally important and the peptide is more flexible. A comparison with a study on the smaller fragments SRIF10-12 and SRIF10-13 which have similar conformational properties, demonstrates the usefulness of the fragment approach in conformational studies of peptides.
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