Photo-control of peptide conformation on a timescale of seconds with a conformationally constrained, blue-absorbing, photo-switchable linker
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Azobenzene derivatives can be used to reversibly photo-regulate conformation and activity when introduced as intramolecular bridges in peptides and proteins. Here we report the design, synthesis, and characterization of an azobenzene derivative that absorbs between 400-450 nm in aqueous solution to produce the cis isomer, and relaxes back to the trans isomer with a half-life of a few seconds at room temperature. In the trans form, the linker can span a distance of approximately 25 A, so that it can bridge Cys residues spaced i, i + 15 in an alpha-helix. Switching of the azobenzene cross-linker from trans to cis causes a decrease in the helix content of peptides where the linker is attached via Cys residues spaced at i, i + 15 and i, i + 14 positions, no change in helix content with Cys residues spaced i, i + 11 and an increase in helix content in a peptide with Cys residues spaced at i, i + 7. In the presence of 10 mM reduced glutathione, the azobenzene cross-linker continued to photo-switch after 24 hours. This cross-linker design thus expands the possibilities for fast photo-control of peptide and protein structure in biochemical systems.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 teacher head, 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".