A Blue-Green Absorbing Cross-Linker for Rapid Photoswitching of Peptide Helix Content
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Azobenzene derivatives can be used to reversibly photoregulate secondary structure when introduced as intramolecular bridges in peptides and proteins. Here we report the design, synthesis, and characterization of a disubstituted N,N-dialkyl azobenzene derivative that absorbs near 480 nm in aqueous solution and relaxes with a half-life of approximately 50 ms at room temperature. The wavelength of maximum absorbance and the rate of thermal relaxation are solvent-dependent. An increase in the percentage of organic solvent leads, in general, to a blue shift in the absorbance maximum and a slowing of the relaxation rate. In accordance with the design, the thermal relaxation of the azobenzene cross-linker from cis to trans causes an increase in the helix content of one peptide where the linker is attached via cysteine residues spaced at i, i + 11 positions and a decrease in helix content of another peptide with cysteine residues spaced at i, i + 7. This cross-linker design thus expands the possibilities for fast photocontrol of peptide and protein structure.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".