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Yan Z, Zhao P, Yan X, Zhang R. Using Abundant 1H Polarization to Enhance the Sensitivity of Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:1866-1878. [PMID: 38343090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
Abstract
Solid-state NMR spectroscopy has been playing a significant role in elucidating the structures and dynamics of materials and proteins at the atomic level for decades. As an extremely abundant nucleus with a very high gyromagnetic ratio, protons are widely present in most organic/inorganic materials. Thus, this Perspective highlights the advantages of proton detection at fast magic-angle spinning (MAS) and presents strategies to utilize and exhaust 1H polarization to achieve signal sensitivity enhancement of solid-state NMR spectroscopy, enabling substantial time savings and extraction of more structural and dynamics information per unit time. Those strategies include developing sensitivity-enhanced single-channel 1H multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, implementing multiple polarization transfer steps in each scan to enhance low-γ nuclei signals, and making full use of 1H polarization to obtain homonuclear and heteronuclear chemical shift correlation spectra in a single experiment. Finally, outlooks and perspectives are provided regarding the challenges and future for the further development of sensitivity-enhanced proton-based solid-state NMR spectroscopy.
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- Zhiwei Yan
- South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter (SESM), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter (SESM), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter (SESM), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter (SESM), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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Xiao H, Zhang Z, Kang H, Yang J. Solid-State NMR Double-Quantum Dipolar Recoupling Enhanced by Additional Phase Modulation. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202300141. [PMID: 37309720 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Additional phase modulation (APM) is proposed to generally enhance the theoretical efficiency of homonuclear double-quantum (DQ) recoupling in solid-state NMR. APM applies an additional phase list to DQ recoupling in steps of an entire block. The sine-based phase list can enhance the theoretical efficiency by 15-30 %, from 0.52 to 0.68 (non-γ-encoded recoupling) or from 0.73 to 0.84 (γ-encoded recoupling), with doubled recoupling time. The genetic-algorithm (GA) optimized APM can adiabatically enhance the efficiency to ∼1.0 at longer times. The concept of APM has been tested on SPR-51 , BaBa, and SPR-31 , which represent γ-encoded recoupling, non-γ-encoded recoupling, and another kind beyond the former two, respectively. Simulations reveal that enhancements from APM are due to the activation of more crystallites in the powder. Experiments on 2,3-13 C labeled alanine are used to validate the APM recoupling. This new concept shall shed light on developing more efficient homonuclear recoupling methods.
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- Hang Xiao
- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, China
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, China
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China
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Kobayashi T, Nishiyama Y, Pandey MK. Determination of the mutual orientation between proton CSA tensors mediated through band-selective 1H- 1H recoupling under fast MAS. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2023; 125:101874. [PMID: 37216831 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2023.101874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The mutual orientation of nuclear spin interaction tensors provides critical information on the conformation and arrangement of molecules in chemicals, materials, and biological systems at an atomic level. Proton is a ubiquitous and important element in a variety of substances, and its NMR is highly sensitive due to their virtually 100% natural abundance and large gyromagnetic ratio. Nevertheless, the measurement of mutual orientation between the 1H CSA tensors has remained largely untouched in the past due to strong 1H-1H homonuclear interactions in a dense network of protons. In this study, we have developed a proton-detected 3D 1H CSA/1H CSA/1H CS correlation method that utilizes three techniques to manage homonuclear interactions, namely fast magic-angle spinning, windowless C-symmetry-based CSA recoupling (windowless-ROCSA), and a band-selective 1H-1H polarization transfer. The asymmetric 1H CSA/1H CSA correlated powder patterns produced by the C-symmetry-based methods are highly sensitive to the sign and asymmetry parameter of the 1H CSA, and the Euler angle β as compared to the symmetric pattern obtained by the existing γ-encoded R-symmetry-based CSA/CSA correlation methods and allows a larger spectral area for data fitting. These features are beneficial for determining the mutual orientation between the nuclear spin interaction tensors with improved accuracy.
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- Takeshi Kobayashi
- U.S. DOE, Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-3020, USA.
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- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, 140001, India
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Tatman BP, Franks WT, Brown SP, Lewandowski JR. Nuclear spin diffusion under fast magic-angle spinning in solid-state NMR. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:2890210. [PMID: 37171196 DOI: 10.1063/5.0142201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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Solid-state nuclear spin diffusion is the coherent and reversible process through which spin order is transferred via dipolar couplings. With the recent increases in magic-angle spinning (MAS) frequencies and magnetic fields becoming routinely applied in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, understanding how the increased 1H resolution obtained affects spin diffusion is necessary for interpretation of several common experiments. To investigate the coherent contributions to spin diffusion with fast MAS, we have developed a low-order correlation in Liouville space model based on the work of Dumez et al. (J. Chem. Phys. 33, 224501, 2010). Specifically, we introduce a new method for basis set selection, which accounts for the resonance-offset dependence at fast MAS. Furthermore, we consider the necessity of including chemical shift, both isotropic and anisotropic, in the modeling of spin diffusion. Using this model, we explore how different experimental factors change the nature of spin diffusion. Then, we show case studies to exemplify the issues that arise in using spin diffusion techniques at fast spinning. We show that the efficiency of polarization transfer via spin diffusion occurring within a deuterated and 100% back-exchanged protein sample at 60 kHz MAS is almost entirely dependent on resonance offset. We additionally identify temperature-dependent magnetization transfer in beta-aspartyl L-alanine, which could be explained by the influence of an incoherent relaxation-based nuclear Overhauser effect.
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- Ben P Tatman
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Nishiyama Y, Hou G, Agarwal V, Su Y, Ramamoorthy A. Ultrafast Magic Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy: Advances in Methodology and Applications. Chem Rev 2023; 123:918-988. [PMID: 36542732 PMCID: PMC10319395 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is one of the most commonly used techniques to study the atomic-resolution structure and dynamics of various chemical, biological, material, and pharmaceutical systems spanning multiple forms, including crystalline, liquid crystalline, fibrous, and amorphous states. Despite the unique advantages of solid-state NMR spectroscopy, its poor spectral resolution and sensitivity have severely limited the scope of this technique. Fortunately, the recent developments in probe technology that mechanically rotate the sample fast (100 kHz and above) to obtain "solution-like" NMR spectra of solids with higher resolution and sensitivity have opened numerous avenues for the development of novel NMR techniques and their applications to study a plethora of solids including globular and membrane-associated proteins, self-assembled protein aggregates such as amyloid fibers, RNA, viral assemblies, polymorphic pharmaceuticals, metal-organic framework, bone materials, and inorganic materials. While the ultrafast-MAS continues to be developed, the minute sample quantity and radio frequency requirements, shorter recycle delays enabling fast data acquisition, the feasibility of employing proton detection, enhancement in proton spectral resolution and polarization transfer efficiency, and high sensitivity per unit sample are some of the remarkable benefits of the ultrafast-MAS technology as demonstrated by the reported studies in the literature. Although the very low sample volume and very high RF power could be limitations for some of the systems, the advantages have spurred solid-state NMR investigation into increasingly complex biological and material systems. As ultrafast-MAS NMR techniques are increasingly used in multidisciplinary research areas, further development of instrumentation, probes, and advanced methods are pursued in parallel to overcome the limitations and challenges for widespread applications. This review article is focused on providing timely comprehensive coverage of the major developments on instrumentation, theory, techniques, applications, limitations, and future scope of ultrafast-MAS technology.
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- Yusuke Nishiyama
- JEOL Ltd., Akishima, Tokyo196-8558, Japan
- RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa230-0045, Japan
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian116023, China
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Hyderabad500 046, India
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- Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey07065, United States
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- Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Michigan Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan41809-1055, United States
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Chávez M, Ernst M. Interaction frames in solid-state NMR: A case study for chemical-shift-selective irradiation schemes. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2022; 122:101834. [PMID: 36327552 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2022.101834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Interaction frames play an important role in describing and understanding experimental schemes in magnetic resonance. They are often used to eliminate dominating parts of the spin Hamiltonian, e.g., the Zeeman Hamiltonian in the usual (Zeeman) rotating frame, or the radio-frequency-field (rf) Hamiltonian to describe the efficiency of decoupling or recoupling sequences. Going into an interaction frame can also make parts of a time-dependent Hamiltonian time independent like the rf-field Hamiltonian in the usual (Zeeman) rotating frame. Eliminating the dominant term often allows a better understanding of the details of the spin dynamics. Going into an interaction frame can also reduces the energy-level splitting in the Hamiltonian leading to a faster convergence of perturbation expansions, average Hamiltonian, or Floquet theory. Often, there is no obvious choice of the interaction frame to use but some can be more convenient than others. Using the example of frequency-selective dipolar recoupling, we discuss the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of different choices of interaction frames. They always include the complete radio-frequency Hamiltonian but can also contain the chemical shifts of the spins and may or may not contain the effective fields over one cycle of the pulse sequence.
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- Matías Chávez
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Zhang Z, Su Y, Xiao H, Yang J. Selective Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Method for Enhancing Long-Range Heteronuclear Correlations in Solids. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:6376-6382. [PMID: 35796704 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The long-range heteronuclear correlation remains a significant challenge in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which is critical in the structural elucidation of biomolecular, material, and pharmaceutical solids. We propose a selective NMR method, heteronuclear selective phase-optimized recoupling (hetSPR), to selectively enhance long-range correlations of interest by utilizing characteristic chemical shifts. Compared to conventional methods, hetSPR can selectively enhance desired heteronuclear correlations (e.g., 1H-13C and 1H-19F) by factors up to 5 and largely suppress the unwanted ones. The method proves useful by enhancing the long-range correlation from an intermolecular 1H-19F distance of 4.8 Å by a factor of 2.4 in a fluorinated pharmaceutical drug, bicalutamide, under fast magic-angle spinning. It does not use selective pulses and is thus user-friendly even for nonexperts. The new method is expected to boost solid-state NMR to elucidate the structures of various solids.
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- Zhengfeng Zhang
- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
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- Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, College of Pharmacy, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
- Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Ahlawat S, Mote KR, Raran-Kurussi S, Agarwal V. Mechanism of selective polarization exchange amongst chemically similar and distinct protons during weak rf irradiation at fast magic angle spinning. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2022; 340:107236. [PMID: 35609347 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2022.107236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Revised: 04/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Band Selective Spectral Spin-Diffusion (BASS-SD) is a method to obtain selective 1H-1H contacts between chemically similar protons within a distance range of 5-6 Å in fully protonated proteins. BASS-SD combines low-amplitude proton spinlock radio frequency (rf) pulses with fast MAS frequency to enable selective polarization exchange in fully protonated molecules. The selectivity of transfer is dictated by the bandwidth of the spinlock pulse and has been used to observe selective HN-HN, Hα-Ηα and Hmethyl-Hmethyl correlations. These proton-proton spatial contacts are similar to those observed in perdeuterated samples and serve as useful structural restraints towards de novo protein structure determination. This study employs bimodal Floquet theory to derive the first- and second-order effective Hamiltonians necessary to understand the spin dynamics during BASS-SD. Analytical calculations combined with numerical simulations delineate two different mechanisms for polarization transfer amongst the proton spins. The BASS-SD recoupling condition has been reoptimized to observe selective correlations between chemically different protons (e.g., HN-Hα) while retaining the spatial contacts between chemically similar protons (e.g., HN-HN). The new BASS-SD condition is integrated with simultaneous and sequential acquisition approaches to generate four different types of structural restraints (HN-HN, Hα-Ηα, HN-Hα, Hα-HN) in one experiment. The approach has been demonstrated on microcrystalline U-[13C,15N] labeled GB1 protein at ∼ 95-100 kHz MAS.
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- Sahil Ahlawat
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 046, India.
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Le Marchand T, Schubeis T, Bonaccorsi M, Paluch P, Lalli D, Pell AJ, Andreas LB, Jaudzems K, Stanek J, Pintacuda G. 1H-Detected Biomolecular NMR under Fast Magic-Angle Spinning. Chem Rev 2022; 122:9943-10018. [PMID: 35536915 PMCID: PMC9136936 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Since the first pioneering studies on small deuterated peptides dating more than 20 years ago, 1H detection has evolved into the most efficient approach for investigation of biomolecular structure, dynamics, and interactions by solid-state NMR. The development of faster and faster magic-angle spinning (MAS) rates (up to 150 kHz today) at ultrahigh magnetic fields has triggered a real revolution in the field. This new spinning regime reduces the 1H-1H dipolar couplings, so that a direct detection of 1H signals, for long impossible without proton dilution, has become possible at high resolution. The switch from the traditional MAS NMR approaches with 13C and 15N detection to 1H boosts the signal by more than an order of magnitude, accelerating the site-specific analysis and opening the way to more complex immobilized biological systems of higher molecular weight and available in limited amounts. This paper reviews the concepts underlying this recent leap forward in sensitivity and resolution, presents a detailed description of the experimental aspects of acquisition of multidimensional correlation spectra with fast MAS, and summarizes the most successful strategies for the assignment of the resonances and for the elucidation of protein structure and conformational dynamics. It finally outlines the many examples where 1H-detected MAS NMR has contributed to the detailed characterization of a variety of crystalline and noncrystalline biomolecular targets involved in biological processes ranging from catalysis through drug binding, viral infectivity, amyloid fibril formation, to transport across lipid membranes.
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- Tanguy Le Marchand
- Centre
de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon, UMR 5082 CNRS/ENS
Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Centre
de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon, UMR 5082 CNRS/ENS
Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Centre
de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon, UMR 5082 CNRS/ENS
Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
- Department
of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm
University, Svante Arrhenius
väg 16C SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, Warsaw 02-093, Poland
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università
del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Viale Teresa Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy
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- Centre
de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon, UMR 5082 CNRS/ENS
Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
- Department
of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius väg 16 C, SE-106
91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
for NMR-Based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute
for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Latvian
Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, Riga LV-1006 Latvia
- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Latvia, Jelgavas 1, Riga LV-1004, Latvia
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, Warsaw 02-093, Poland
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- Centre
de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon, UMR 5082 CNRS/ENS
Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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Ahlawat S, Mote KR, Lakomek NA, Agarwal V. Solid-State NMR: Methods for Biological Solids. Chem Rev 2022; 122:9643-9737. [PMID: 35238547 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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In the last two decades, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy has transformed from a spectroscopic technique investigating small molecules and industrial polymers to a potent tool decrypting structure and underlying dynamics of complex biological systems, such as membrane proteins, fibrils, and assemblies, in near-physiological environments and temperatures. This transformation can be ascribed to improvements in hardware design, sample preparation, pulsed methods, isotope labeling strategies, resolution, and sensitivity. The fundamental engagement between nuclear spins and radio-frequency pulses in the presence of a strong static magnetic field is identical between solution and ssNMR, but the experimental procedures vastly differ because of the absence of molecular tumbling in solids. This review discusses routinely employed state-of-the-art static and MAS pulsed NMR methods relevant for biological samples with rotational correlation times exceeding 100's of nanoseconds. Recent developments in signal filtering approaches, proton methodologies, and multiple acquisition techniques to boost sensitivity and speed up data acquisition at fast MAS are also discussed. Several examples of protein structures (globular, membrane, fibrils, and assemblies) solved with ssNMR spectroscopy have been considered. We also discuss integrated approaches to structurally characterize challenging biological systems and some newly emanating subdisciplines in ssNMR spectroscopy.
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- Sahil Ahlawat
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Survey No. 36/P Gopanpally, Serilingampally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500046, Telangana, India
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Survey No. 36/P Gopanpally, Serilingampally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500046, Telangana, India
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- University of Düsseldorf, Institute for Physical Biology, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Survey No. 36/P Gopanpally, Serilingampally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500046, Telangana, India
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Atterberry BA, Carnahan SL, Chen Y, Venkatesh A, Rossini AJ. Double echo symmetry-based REDOR and RESPDOR pulse sequences for proton detected measurements of heteronuclear dipolar coupling constants. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2022; 336:107147. [PMID: 35149335 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2022.107147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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1H{X} symmetry-based rotational echo double resonance pulse sequences (S-REDOR) and symmetry-based rotational echo saturation pulse double resonance (S-RESPDOR) solid-state NMR experiments have found widespread application for 1H detected measurements of difference NMR spectra, dipolar coupling constants, and internuclear distances under conditions of fast magic angle spinning (MAS). In these experiments the supercycled R412 (SR412) symmetry-based recoupling pulse sequence is typically applied to the 1H spins to reintroduce heteronuclear dipolar couplings. However, the timing of SR412 and other symmetry-based pulse sequences must be precisely synchronized with the rotation of the sample, otherwise, the evolution of 1H CSA and other interactions will not be properly refocused. For this reason, significant distortions are often observed in experimental dipolar dephasing difference curves obtained with S-REDOR or S-RESPDOR pulse sequences. Here we introduce a family of double echo (DE) S-REDOR/S-RESPDOR pulse sequences that function in an analogous manner to the recently introduced t1-noise eliminated (TONE) family of dipolar heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence (D-HMQC) pulse sequences. Through numerical simulations and experiments the DE S-REDOR/S-RESPDOR sequences are shown to provide dephasing difference curves similar to those obtained with S-REDOR/S-RESPDOR. However, the DE sequences are more robust to the deviations of the MAS frequency from the ideal value that occurs during typical solid-state NMR experiments. The DE sequences are shown to provide more reliable 1H detected dipolar dephasing difference curves for nuclei such as 15N (with isotopic labelling), 183W and 35Cl. The double echo sequences are therefore recommended to be used in place of conventional S-REDOR/S-RESPDOR sequences for measurement of weak dipolar coupling constants and long-range distances.
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- Benjamin A Atterberry
- US DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- US DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- US DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- US DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- US DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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Nimerovsky E, Najbauer EE, Movellan KT, Xue K, Becker S, Andreas LB. Modest Offset Difference Internuclear Selective Transfer via Homonuclear Dipolar Coupling. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:1540-1546. [PMID: 35133845 PMCID: PMC8859849 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Homonuclear dipolar recoupling is routinely used for magic-angle spinning NMR-based structure determination. In fully protonated samples, only short proton-proton distances are accessible to broadband recoupling approaches because of high proton density. Selective methods allow detection of longer distances by directing polarization to a subset of spins. Here we introduce the selective pulse sequence MODIST, which recouples spins that have a modest chemical shift offset difference, and demonstrate it to selectively record correlations between amide protons. The sequence was selected for good retention of total signal, leading to up to twice the intensity for proton-proton correlations compared with other selective methods. The sequence is effective across a range of spinning conditions and magnetic fields, here tested at 55.555 and 100 kHz magic-angle spinning and at proton Larmor frequencies from 600 to 1200 MHz. For influenza A M2 in lipid bilayers, cross-peaks characteristic of a helical conformation are observed.
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Duong NT, Agarwal V, Nishiyama Y. Separating an overlapped 1H peak and identifying its 1H- 1H correlations with the use of single-channel 1H solid-state NMR at fast MAS. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2022; 117:101774. [PMID: 35051807 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2022.101774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Fast magic-angle spinning (≥60 kHz) technique has enabled the acquisition of high-resolution 1H NMR spectra of solid materials. However, the spectral interpretation is still difficult because the 1H peaks are overlapped due to the narrow chemical shift range and broad linewidths. An additional 13C or 14N or 1H dimension possibly addresses the issues of overlapped proton resonances, but it leads to the elongated experimental time. Herein, we introduce a single-channel 1H experiment to separate the overlapped 1H peak and identify its spatially proximal 1H-1H correlations. This sequence combines selective excitation, selective 1H-1H polarization transfer by selective recoupling of protons (SERP), and broadband 1H recoupling by back-to-back (BABA) recoupling sequences. The concept for 1H separation is based on (i) the selective excitation of a well-resolved 1H peak and (ii) the selective dipolar polarization transfer from this isolated 1H peak to one of the 1H peaks in the overlapped/poor resolution region by SERP and (iii) the detection of 1H-1H correlations from these two 1H peaks to other neighboring 1Hs by BABA. We demonstrated the applicability of this approach to identify overlapped peaks on two molecules, β-L-aspartyl-l-alanine and Pioglitazone.HCl. The sequence allows the clear observation of 1H-1H correlations from an overlapped 1H peak without an additional heteronuclear dimension and ensures efficient polarization transfers that leads to twelve fold reduction in experimental time compared to 14N edited experiments. The limitation and the conditions of applicability for this approach are discussed in detail.
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- Nghia Tuan Duong
- Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500 107, India
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- Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan; JEOL RESONANCE Inc., Akishima, Tokyo, 196-8558, Japan.
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Liang L, Ji Y, Chen K, Gao P, Zhao Z, Hou G. Solid-State NMR Dipolar and Chemical Shift Anisotropy Recoupling Techniques for Structural and Dynamical Studies in Biological Systems. Chem Rev 2022; 122:9880-9942. [PMID: 35006680 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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With the development of NMR methodology and technology during the past decades, solid-state NMR (ssNMR) has become a particularly important tool for investigating structure and dynamics at atomic scale in biological systems, where the recoupling techniques play pivotal roles in modern high-resolution MAS NMR. In this review, following a brief introduction on the basic theory of recoupling in ssNMR, we highlight the recent advances in dipolar and chemical shift anisotropy recoupling methods, as well as their applications in structural determination and dynamical characterization at multiple time scales (i.e., fast-, intermediate-, and slow-motion). The performances of these prevalent recoupling techniques are compared and discussed in multiple aspects, together with the representative applications in biomolecules. Given the recent emerging advances in NMR technology, new challenges for recoupling methodology development and potential opportunities for biological systems are also discussed.
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- Lixin Liang
- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China
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Yan Z, Zhang R. Rapid Structural Analysis of Minute Quantities of Organic Solids by Exhausting 1H Polarization in Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Under Fast Magic Angle Spinning. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:12067-12074. [PMID: 34910488 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) often suffers from significant limitations due to the inherent low signal sensitivity when low-γ nuclei are involved. Herein, we report an elegant solid-state NMR approach for rapid structural analysis of minute amounts of organic solids. By encoding staggered chemical shift evolution in the indirect dimension and staggered acquisition in the 1H dimension, a proton-detected homonuclear 1H/1H and heteronuclear 13C/1H chemical shift correlation (HETCOR) spectrum can be obtained simultaneously in a single experiment at a fast magic-angle-spinning (MAS) condition with barely increasing the experimental time. We further show that during the conventional 1H-detected HETCOR experimental time, multiple homonuclear 1H/1H correlation spectra can be recorded in addition to the HETCOR spectrum, enabling the determination of 1H-1H distances. We establish that abundant 1H polarization can be efficiently manipulated and fully utilized in proton-detected solid-state NMR spectroscopy for extraction of more critical structural information and thus reduction of the total experimental time.
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- Zhiwei Yan
- South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Molecular Science and Engineering (MoSE), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
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- South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Molecular Science and Engineering (MoSE), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
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Lusky OS, Meir M, Goldbourt A. Characterizing hydrogen bonds in intact RNA from MS2 bacteriophage using magic angle spinning NMR. BIOPHYSICAL REPORTS 2021; 1:100027. [PMID: 36425459 PMCID: PMC9680805 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpr.2021.100027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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RNA is a polymer with pivotal functions in many biological processes. RNA structure determination is thus a vital step toward understanding its function. The secondary structure of RNA is stabilized by hydrogen bonds formed between nucleotide basepairs, and it defines the positions and shapes of functional stem-loops, internal loops, bulges, and other functional and structural elements. In this work, we present a methodology for studying large intact RNA biomolecules using homonuclear 15N solid-state NMR spectroscopy. We show that proton-driven spin-diffusion experiments with long mixing times, up to 16 s, improved by the incorporation of multiple rotor-synchronous 1H inversion pulses (termed radio-frequency dipolar recoupling pulses), reveal key hydrogen-bond contacts. In the full-length RNA isolated from MS2 phage, we observed strong and dominant contributions of guanine-cytosine Watson-Crick basepairs, and beyond these common interactions, we observe a significant contribution of the guanine-uracil wobble basepairs. Moreover, we can differentiate basepaired and non-basepaired nitrogen atoms. Using the improved technique facilitates characterization of hydrogen-bond types in intact large-scale RNA using solid-state NMR. It can be highly useful to guide secondary structure prediction techniques and possibly structure determination methods.
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- School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences
- Corresponding author
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Xiao H, Zhang Z, Yang J. Theory of frequency-selective homonuclear dipolar recoupling in solid-state NMR. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:174105. [PMID: 34742189 DOI: 10.1063/5.0065396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, frequency-selective homonuclear dipolar recoupling is key to quantitative distance measurement or selective enhancement of correlations between atoms of interest in multiple-spin systems, which are not amenable to band-selective or broadband recoupling. Previous frequency-selective recoupling is mostly based on the so-called rotational resonance (R2) condition that restricts the application to spin pairs with resonance frequencies differing in integral multiples of the magic-angle spinning (MAS) frequency. Recently, we have proposed a series of frequency-selective homonuclear recoupling sequences called SPR (short for Selective Phase-optimized Recoupling), which have been successfully applied for selective 1H-1H or 13C-13C recoupling under from moderate (∼10 kHz) to ultra-fast (150 kHz) MAS frequencies. In this study, we fully analyze the average Hamiltonian theory of SPR sequences and reveal the origin of frequency selectivity in recoupling. The theoretical description, as well as numerical simulations and experiments, demonstrates that the frequency selectivity can be easily controlled by the flip angle (p) in the (p)ϕk(p)ϕk+π unit in the pSPR-Nn sequences. Small flip angles lead to frequency-selective recoupling, while large flip angles may lead to broadband recoupling in principle. The result shall shed new light on the design of homonuclear recoupling sequences with arbitrary frequency bandwidths.
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- Hang Xiao
- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, People's Republic of China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, People's Republic of China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, People's Republic of China
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Shcherbakov AA, Medeiros-Silva J, Tran N, Gelenter MD, Hong M. From Angstroms to Nanometers: Measuring Interatomic Distances by Solid-State NMR. Chem Rev 2021; 122:9848-9879. [PMID: 34694769 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Internuclear distances represent one of the main structural constraints in molecular structure determination using solid-state NMR spectroscopy, complementing chemical shifts and orientational restraints. Although a large number of magic-angle-spinning (MAS) NMR techniques have been available for distance measurements, traditional 13C and 15N NMR experiments are inherently limited to distances of a few angstroms due to the low gyromagnetic ratios of these nuclei. Recent development of fast MAS triple-resonance 19F and 1H NMR probes has stimulated the design of MAS NMR experiments that measure distances in the 1-2 nm range with high sensitivity. This review describes the principles and applications of these multiplexed multidimensional correlation distance NMR experiments, with an emphasis on 19F- and 1H-based distance experiments. Representative applications of these long-distance NMR methods to biological macromolecules as well as small molecules are reviewed.
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- Alexander A Shcherbakov
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Duong NT, Aoyama Y, Kawamoto K, Yamazaki T, Nishiyama Y. Structure Solution of Nano-Crystalline Small Molecules Using MicroED and Solid-State NMR Dipolar-Based Experiments. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26154652. [PMID: 34361806 PMCID: PMC8347922 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26154652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Revised: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Three-dimensional electron diffraction crystallography (microED) can solve structures of sub-micrometer crystals, which are too small for single crystal X-ray crystallography. However, R factors for the microED-based structures are generally high because of dynamic scattering. That means R factor may not be reliable provided that kinetic analysis is used. Consequently, there remains ambiguity to locate hydrogens and to assign nuclei with close atomic numbers, like carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. Herein, we employed microED and ssNMR dipolar-based experiments together with spin dynamics numerical simulations. The NMR dipolar-based experiments were 1H-14N phase-modulated rotational-echo saturation-pulse double-resonance (PM-S-RESPDOR) and 1H-1H selective recoupling of proton (SERP) experiments. The former examined the dephasing effect of a specific 1H resonance under multiple 1H-14N dipolar couplings. The latter examined the selective polarization transfer between a 1H-1H pair. The structure was solved by microED and then validated by evaluating the agreement between experimental and calculated dipolar-based NMR results. As the measurements were performed on 1H and 14N, the method can be employed for natural abundance samples. Furthermore, the whole validation procedure was conducted at 293 K unlike widely used chemical shift calculation at 0 K using the GIPAW method. This combined method was demonstrated on monoclinic l-histidine.
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- Nghia Tuan Duong
- RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan;
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- RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan;
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- RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan;
- JEOL RESONANCE Inc., Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan
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Potnuru LR, Duong NT, Sasank B, Raran-Kurussi S, Nishiyama Y, Agarwal V. Selective 1H- 1H recoupling via symmetry sequences in fully protonated samples at fast magic angle spinning. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2021; 328:107004. [PMID: 34049237 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2021.107004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 05/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Proton-detected solid-state NMR at fast Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) is becoming the norm to characterize molecules. Routinely 1H-1H and 1H-X dipolar couplings are used to characterize the structure and dynamics of molecules. Selective proton recoupling techniques are emerging as a method for structural characterization via estimation of qualitative and quantitative distances. In the present study, we demonstrate through numerical simulations and experiments that the well-characterized CNvn sequences can also be tailored for selective recoupling of proton spins by employing C elements of the type (β)Φ(4β)Φ+π(3β)Φ. Herein, several CNvn sequences were examined through numerical simulations and experiments. C614 recoupling sequence with a modified POST-element ((β)Φ(4β)Φ+π(3β)Φ) shows selective polarization transfer efficiencies on the order of 40-50% between various proton spin pairs in fully protonated samples at rf amplitudes ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 times the MAS frequency. These selective recoupling sequences have been labeled as frequency-selective-CNvn sequences. The extent of selectivity, polarization transfer efficiency and the feasibility of experimentally measuring proton-proton distances in fully protonated samples are explored here. The development of efficient and robust selective 1H-1H recoupling experiments is required to structurally characterize molecules without artificial isotope enrichment or the need for diffracting crystals.
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- Lokeswara Rao Potnuru
- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India
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- Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India; Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Sector 81, Mohali 140306, India
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India
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- Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; JEOL RESONANCE Inc., Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan.
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India.
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Xiao H, Zhang Z, Zhao Y, Yang J. Spectral editing of alanine, serine, and threonine in uniformly labeled proteins based on frequency-selective homonuclear recoupling in solid-state NMR. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2021; 75:193-202. [PMID: 33890210 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-021-00367-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Spectral editing is crucial to simplify the crowded solid-state NMR spectra of proteins. New techniques are introduced to edit 13C-13C correlations of uniformly labeled proteins under moderate magic-angle spinning (MAS), based on our recent frequency-selective homonuclear recoupling sequences [Zhang et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 8077-8083]. The signals of alanine, serine, or threonine residues are selected out by selective 13Cα-13Cβ double-quantum filtering (DQF). The 13Cα-13Cβ correlations of alanine residues are selectively established with efficiency up to ~ 1.8 times that by dipolar-assisted rotational resonance (DARR). The techniques are shown in 2D/3D NCCX experiments and applied to the uniformly 13C, 15N labeled Aquaporin Z (AqpZ) membrane protein, demonstrating their potential to simplify spectral analyses in biological solid-state NMR.
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- Hang Xiao
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, P. R. China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, P. R. China.
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China.
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Ji Y, Liang L, Bao X, Hou G. Recent progress in dipolar recoupling techniques under fast MAS in solid-state NMR spectroscopy. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2021; 112:101711. [PMID: 33508579 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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With the recent advances in NMR hardware and probe design technology, magic-angle spinning (MAS) rates over 100 kHz are accessible now, even on commercial solid NMR probes. Under such fast MAS conditions, excellent spectral resolution has been achieved by efficient suppression of anisotropic interactions, which also opens an avenue to the proton-detected NMR experiments in solids. Numerous methods have been developed to take full advantage of fast MAS during the last decades. Among them, dipolar recoupling techniques under fast MAS play vital roles in the determination of the molecular structure and dynamics, and are also key elements in multi-dimensional correlation NMR experiments. Herein, we review the dipolar recoupling techniques, especially those developed in the past two decades for fast-to-ultrafast MAS conditions. A major focus for our discussion is the ratio of RF field strength (in frequency) to MAS frequency, ν1/νr, in different pulse sequences, which determines whether these dipolar recoupling techniques are suitable for NMR experiments under fast MAS conditions. Systematic comparisons are made among both heteronuclear and homonuclear dipolar recoupling schemes. In addition, the schemes developed specially for proton-detection NMR experiments under ultrafast MAS conditions are highlighted as well.
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- Yi Ji
- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian, 116023, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian, 116023, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian, 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian, 116023, China.
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Zhang Z, Oss A, Org ML, Samoson A, Li M, Tan H, Su Y, Yang J. Selectively Enhanced 1H- 1H Correlations in Proton-Detected Solid-State NMR under Ultrafast MAS Conditions. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:8077-8083. [PMID: 32880459 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Proton-detected solid-state NMR has emerged as a powerful analytical technique in structural elucidation via 1H-1H correlations, which are mostly established by broadband methods. We propose a new class of frequency-selective homonuclear recoupling methods to selectively enhance 1H-1H correlations of interest under ultrafast magic-angle spinning (MAS). These methods, dubbed as selective phase-optimized recoupling (SPR), can provide a sensitivity enhancement by a factor of ∼3 over the widely used radio-frequency-driven recoupling (RFDR) to observe 1HN-1HN contacts in a protonated tripeptide N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe (fMLF) under 150 kHz MAS and are successfully utilized to probe a long-range 1H-1H contact in a pharmaceutical molecule, the hydrochloride form of pioglitazone (PIO-HCl). SPR is not only highly efficient in frequency-selective recoupling but also easy to implement, imparting to it great potential to probe 1H-1H contacts for the structural elucidation of organic solids such as proteins and pharmaceuticals under ultrafast MAS conditions.
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- Zhengfeng Zhang
- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
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- Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 19086, Estonia
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- Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 19086, Estonia
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- Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 19086, Estonia
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Potnuru LR, Duong NT, Ahlawat S, Raran-Kurussi S, Ernst M, Nishiyama Y, Agarwal V. Accuracy of 1H- 1H distances measured using frequency selective recoupling and fast magic-angle spinning. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:084202. [PMID: 32872876 DOI: 10.1063/5.0019717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Selective recoupling of protons (SERP) is a method to selectively and quantitatively measure magnetic dipole-dipole interaction between protons and, in turn, the proton-proton distance in solid-state samples at fast magic-angle spinning. We present a bimodal operator-based Floquet approach to describe the numerically optimized SERP recoupling sequence. The description calculates the allowed terms in the first-order effective Hamiltonian, explains the origin of selectivity during recoupling, and shows how different terms are modulated as a function of the radio frequency amplitude and the phase of the sequence. Analytical and numerical simulations have been used to evaluate the effect of higher-order terms and offsets on the polarization transfer efficiency and quantitative distance measurement. The experimentally measured 1H-1H distances on a fully protonated thymol sample are ∼10%-15% shorter than those reported from diffraction studies. A semi-quantitative model combined with extensive numerical simulations is used to rationalize the effect of the third-spin and the role of different parameters in the experimentally observed shorter distances. Measurements at high magnetic fields improve the match between experimental and diffraction distances. The measurement of 1H-1H couplings at offsets different from the SERP-offset has also been explored. Experiments were also performed on a perdeuterated ubiquitin sample to demonstrate the feasibility of simultaneously measuring multiple quantitative distances and to evaluate the accuracy of the measured distance in the absence of multispin effects. The estimation of proton-proton distances provides a boost to structural characterization of small pharmaceuticals and biomolecules, given that the positions of protons are generally not well defined in x-ray structures.
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- Lokeswara Rao Potnuru
- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Survey No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India
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- NMR Science and Development Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, and Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Survey No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Survey No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- NMR Science and Development Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, and Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Survey No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India
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Duong NT, Raran-Kurussi S, Nishiyama Y, Agarwal V. Can proton-proton recoupling in fully protonated solids provide quantitative, selective and efficient polarization transfer? JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2020; 317:106777. [PMID: 32619889 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Revised: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Dipolar recoupling sequences have been used to probe spatial proximity of nuclear spins and were traditionally designed to probe rare spins such as 13C and/or 15N nuclei. The multi-spin dipolar-coupling network of the rare spins is weak due to smaller couplings and large chemical shift dispersion. Therefore, the recoupling approaches were tailored to design offset compensated or broadband sequences. In contrast, protons have a substantially stronger dipolar-coupling network and much narrower chemical shift range. Broadband recoupling sequences such as radio-frequency driven recoupling (RFDR), back-to-back (BABA), and lab frame proton-proton spin diffusion have been routinely used to characterize the structures of protein/macromolecules and small molecules. Recently selective 1H-1H recoupling sequences have been proposed that combine chemical shift offset of the resolved proton spectrum (at fast MAS) with first- and second-order dipolar recoupling Hamiltonians to obtain quantitative and qualitative proton distances, respectively. Herein, we evaluate the performances of broadband and selective proton recoupling sequences such as finite pulse RFDR (fp-RFDR), band-selective spectral spin diffusion (BASS-SD), second-order cross-polarization (SOCP), and selective recoupling of proton (SERP) in terms of the selectivity and efficiency of 1H-1H polarization transfers in a dense network of proton spins and explore the possibility of measuring 1H-1H distances. We use theoretical considerations, numerical simulations, and experiments to support the distinct advantages and disadvantages of each recoupling sequence. Experiments were performed on L-histidine.HCl.H2O at a MAS frequency of 71.43 kHz. This study rationalizes the proper selection of 1H-1H recoupling sequences when working with fully protonated solids.
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- Nghia Tuan Duong
- NMR Science and Development Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, and Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India
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- NMR Science and Development Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, and Nano-Crystallography Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; JEOL RESONANCE Inc., Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan.
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Sy. No. 36/P, Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107, India.
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Sharma K, Madhu PK, Agarwal V, Mote KR. Simultaneous recording of intra- and inter-residue linking experiments for backbone assignments in proteins at MAS frequencies higher than 60 kHz. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2020; 74:229-237. [PMID: 31894471 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-019-00292-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Obtaining site-specific assignments for the NMR spectra of proteins in the solid state is a significant bottleneck in deciphering their biophysics. This is primarily due to the time-intensive nature of the experiments. Additionally, the low resolution in the [Formula: see text]-dimension requires multiple complementary experiments to be recorded to lift degeneracies in assignments. We present here an approach, gleaned from the techniques used in multiple-acquisition experiments, which allows the recording of forward and backward residue-linking experiments in a single experimental block. Spectra from six additional pathways are also recovered from the same experimental block, without increasing the probe duty cycle. These experiments give intra- and inter residue connectivities for the backbone [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] resonances and should alone be sufficient to assign these nuclei in proteins at MAS frequencies > 60 kHz. The validity of this approach is tested with experiments on a standard tripeptide N-formyl methionyl-leucine-phenylalanine (f-MLF) at a MAS frequency of 62.5 kHz, which is also used as a test-case for determining the sensitivity of each of the experiments. We expect this approach to have an immediate impact on the way assignments are obtained at MAS frequencies [Formula: see text].
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- Kshama Sharma
- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally, Serlingampally Mandal, Rangareddy District, Hyderabad, 500107, India
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally, Serlingampally Mandal, Rangareddy District, Hyderabad, 500107, India
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally, Serlingampally Mandal, Rangareddy District, Hyderabad, 500107, India.
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally, Serlingampally Mandal, Rangareddy District, Hyderabad, 500107, India.
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Kobayashi T, Wang Z, Pruski M. Homonuclear dipolar recoupling of arbitrary pairs in multi-spin systems under magic angle spinning: A double-frequency-selective ZQ-SEASHORE experiment. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2019; 101:76-81. [PMID: 31129364 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2019.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Revised: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We describe a useful method for measuring the internuclear distances within arbitrarily selected pairs of like nuclei in dipolar-coupled multi-spin systems. The method uses a combination of the zero-quantum shift-evolution-assisted selective homonuclear recoupling (ZQ-SEASHORE) technique developed by Hu and Tycko [J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 131, 045101] and double-frequency-selective radio-frequency pulse. The double-frequency-selective pulse inverts polarizations of two spins simultaneously, and thus applications of the method presented here are only limited by the spectral resolution, and not by the number of interacting spins. Our experiments demonstrate the validity of the method and present analytical expressions for the dephasing curve.
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- Takeshi Kobayashi
- U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-3020, United States.
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- U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-3020, United States; Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-3020, United States
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- U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-3020, United States; Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-3020, United States.
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Paluch P, Rankin AGM, Trébosc J, Lafon O, Amoureux JP. Analysis of HMQC experiments applied to a spin ½ nucleus subject to very large CSA. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2019; 100:11-25. [PMID: 30908976 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2019.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The acquisition of solid-state NMR spectra of "heavy" spin I = 1/2 nuclei, such as 119Sn, 195Pt, 199Hg or 207Pb can often prove challenging due to the presence of large chemical shift anisotropy (CSA), which can cause significant broadening of spectral lines. However, previous publications have shown that well-resolved spectra can be obtained via inverse 1H detection using HMQC experiments in combination with fast magic angle spinning. In this work, the efficiencies of different 195Pt excitation schemes are analyzed using SIMPSON numerical simulations and experiments performed on cis- and transplatin samples. These schemes include: hard pulses (HP), selective long pulses (SLP) and rotor-synchronized DANTE trains of pulses. The results show that for spectra of species with very large CSA, HP is little efficient, but that both DANTE and SLP provide efficient excitation profiles over a wide range of CSA values. In particular, it is revealed that the SLP scheme is highly robust to offset, pulse amplitude and length, and is simple to set up. These factors make SLP ideally suited to widespread use by "non-experts" for carrying out analyses of materials containing "heavy" spin I = 1/2 nuclei that are subject to very large CSAs. Finally, the existence of an "intermediate" excitation regime, with an rf-field strength in between those of HP and SLP, which is effective for large CSA, is demonstrated. It must be noted that in some samples, multiple sites may exist with very different CSAs. This is the case for 195Pt species with either square-planar or octahedral structures, with large or small CSA, respectively. These two types of CSAs can only be excited simultaneously with DANTE trains, which scale up the effective rf-field. Another way to obtain all the information is to perform two different experiments: one with SLP and the second with HP to excite the sites with moderate/large and small/moderate CSAs, respectively. These two complementary experiments, recorded with two different spinning speeds, can also be used to discriminate the center-band resonances from the spinning sidebands.
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- Piotr Paluch
- Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewicza 112, PL-90 363 Lodz, Poland; Univ. Lille, CNRS 8181, UCCS: Unit of Catalysis and Chemistry of Solids, F-59000 Lille, France.
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS 8181, UCCS: Unit of Catalysis and Chemistry of Solids, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS 8181, UCCS: Unit of Catalysis and Chemistry of Solids, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS 8181, UCCS: Unit of Catalysis and Chemistry of Solids, F-59000 Lille, France; Institut Universitaire de France, 1 Rue Descartes, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS 8181, UCCS: Unit of Catalysis and Chemistry of Solids, F-59000 Lille, France; Bruker Biospin, 34 Rue de L'Industrie, F-67166 Wissembourg, France.
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Shcherbakov AA, Mandala VS, Hong M. High-Sensitivity Detection of Nanometer 1H- 19F Distances for Protein Structure Determination by 1H-Detected Fast MAS NMR. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:4387-4391. [PMID: 31034230 PMCID: PMC7012536 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b03812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Protein structure determination by solid-state NMR requires the measurement of many interatomic distances through dipole-dipole couplings. To obtain multiple long-range distance restraints rapidly and with high sensitivity, here we demonstrate a new 1H-detected fast magic-angle-spinning NMR technique that yields many long distances in a two-dimensional (2D)-resolved fashion. The distances are measured up to ∼15 Å, with an accuracy of better than 10%, between 1H and 19F, two nuclear spins that have the highest gyromagnetic ratios. Exogenous fluorines are sparsely introduced into the aromatic residues of the protein, which is perdeuterated and back-exchanged to give amide protons. This 1H-19F distance experiment, termed 2D heteronuclear single-quantum coherence rotational-echo double-resonance (HSQC-REDOR), is demonstrated on the singly fluorinated model protein, GB1. We extracted 33 distances between 5-19F-Trp43 and backbone amide protons, using 2D spectral series that were measured in less than 3 days. Combining these 1H-19F distance restraints with 13C-19F distances and chemical shifts, we calculated a GB1 structure with a backbone root-mean-square deviation of 1.73 Å from the high-resolution structure. This 1H-detected 1H-19F distance technique promises to provide a highly efficient tool for constraining the three-dimensional structures of proteins and protein-ligand complexes, with not only precise and fast measurements but also access to truly long-range distances.
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- Alexander A. Shcherbakov
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 170 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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NMR Crystallography at Fast Magic-Angle Spinning Frequencies: Application of Novel Recoupling Methods. CRYSTALS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst9050231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Chemical characterisation of active pharmaceutical compounds can be challenging, especially when these molecules exhibit tautomeric or desmotropic behaviour. The complexity can increase manyfold if these molecules are not susceptible to crystallisation. Solid-state NMR has been employed effectively for characterising such molecules. However, characterisation of a molecule is just a first step in identifying the differences in the crystalline structure. 1 H solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ssNMR) studies on these molecules at fast magic-angle-spinning frequencies can provide a wealth of information and may be used along with ab initio calculations to predict the crystal structure in the absence of X-ray crystallographic studies. In this work, we attempted to use solid-state NMR to measure 1 H - 1 H distances that can be used as restraints for crystal structure calculations. We performed studies on the desmotropic forms of albendazole.
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