PMID- 7341519 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19820719 LR - 20190904 IS - 0367-8377 (Print) IS - 0367-8377 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 3 DP - 1981 Sep TI - Conformational energy calculations on enkephalins and enkephalin analogs. Classification of conformations to different configurational types. PG - 256-75 AB - Conformational energy calculations were carried out on the peptide enkaphalins (ENK) and selected analogs to find those conformers of low energy. The analogs studied include [D-Ala2]Enk-NH2, [D-Ala2]Enk, [D-Met2, Pro5]Enk-NH2, [D-Ala2, D-Phe5]Enk, [D-Ala2, D-Leu5]Enk, [D-Ala2, (N-Me)Phe4, Met5] Enk-NH2 and [D-Ala2, (N-Me)Met5]Enk-NH2. When the low-energy conformers for all the analogs are compared, different allowed backbone conformations are found which orient the functional side-chains such that three classifications of structures appear. Each classification shows a unique configuration of side-chain positions in space even though different backbone conformations are found within each classification. FAU - Manavalan, P AU - Manavalan P FAU - Momany, F A AU - Momany FA LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Denmark TA - Int J Pept Protein Res JT - International journal of peptide and protein research JID - 0330420 RN - 0 (Endorphins) RN - 0 (Enkephalins) SB - IM MH - *Endorphins MH - *Enkephalins MH - Models, Molecular MH - Protein Conformation MH - Thermodynamics EDAT- 1981/09/01 00:00 MHDA- 1981/09/01 00:01 CRDT- 1981/09/01 00:00 PHST- 1981/09/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1981/09/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1981/09/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/j.1399-3011.1981.tb02980.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Pept Protein Res. 1981 Sep;18(3):256-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3011.1981.tb02980.x.