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High resolution 1H-NMR at 360 MHz was used to characterize monomeric melittin in aqueous solution. The monomeric form of melittin was found to prevail at 3 mM concentration, pH 3.0, and temperatures between 30 and 90 degrees C, both in the absence of salt and with 6 M guanidium chloride. From comparison with model peptides and studies of the effects of 6 M guanidium chloride and variable temperature on the NMR parameters it was concluded that monomeric melittin is predominantly in an extended flexible form, with the fragments 5--9 and 14--20 more highly structured than the rest of the amino acid sequence. The appearance of a second, low abundant form of monomeric melittin, which is in slow exchange on the NMR time scale with both the more abundant monomeric conformation and aggregated melittin, was attributed to cis-trans isomerism of the peptide bond Leu-13--Pro-14.
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