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Southern SA, Perras FA. Comparison of methods for the NMR measurement of motionally averaged dipolar couplings. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2024; 364:107710. [PMID: 38901172 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2024.107710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Revised: 05/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024]
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Motionally averaged dipolar couplings are an important tool for understanding the complex dynamics of catalysts, polymers, and biomolecules. While there is a plethora of solid-state NMR pulse sequences available for their measurement, in can be difficult to gauge the methods' strengths and weaknesses. In particular, there has not been a comprehensive comparison of their performance in natural abundance samples, where 1H homonuclear dipolar couplings are important and the use of large MAS rotors may be required for sensitivity reasons. In this work, we directly compared some of the more common methods for measuring C-H dipolar couplings in natural abundance samples using L-alanine (L-Ala) and the N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-leucyl-L-phenylalanine (fMLF) tripeptide as model systems. We evaluated their performance in terms of accuracy, resolution, sensitivity, and ease of implementation. We found that, despite the presence of 1H homonuclear dipolar interactions, all methods, with the exception of REDOR, were able to yield the reasonable dipolar coupling strengths for both mobile and static moieties. Of these methods, PDLF provides the most convenient workflow and precision at the expense of low sensitivity. In low-sensitivity cases, MAS-PISEMA and DIPSHIFT appear to be the better options.
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- Scott A Southern
- Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, Ames National Laboratory, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, Ames National Laboratory, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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Tan H, Duan M, Xie H, Zhao Y, Liu H, Yang M, Liu M, Yang J. Fast collective motions of backbone in transmembrane α helices are critical to water transfer of aquaporin. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eade9520. [PMID: 38718112 PMCID: PMC11078191 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade9520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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Fast collective motions are widely present in biomolecules, but their functional relevance remains unclear. Herein, we reveal that fast collective motions of backbone are critical to the water transfer of aquaporin Z (AqpZ) by using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A total of 212 residue site-specific dipolar order parameters and 158 15N spin relaxation rates of the backbone are measured by combining the 13C- and 1H-detected multidimensional ssNMR spectra. Analysis of these experimental data by theoretic models suggests that the small-amplitude (~10°) collective motions of the transmembrane α helices on the nanosecond-to-microsecond timescales are dominant for the dynamics of AqpZ. The MD simulations demonstrate that these collective motions are critical to the water transfer efficiency of AqpZ by facilitating the opening of the channel and accelerating the water-residue hydrogen bonds renewing in the selectivity filter region.
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- Huan Tan
- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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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- 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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- 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
- Interdisciplinary Institute of NMR and Molecular Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, P. R. China
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Perras FA, Thomas H, Heintz P, Behera R, Yu J, Viswanathan G, Jing D, Southern SA, Kovnir K, Stanley L, Huang W. The Structure of Boron Monoxide. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:14660-14669. [PMID: 37378579 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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Boron monoxide (BO), prepared by the thermal condensation of tetrahydroxydiboron, was first reported in 1955; however, its structure could not be determined. With the recent attention on boron-based two-dimensional materials, such as borophene and hexagonal boron nitride, there is renewed interest in BO. A large number of stable BO structures have been computationally identified, but none are supported by experiments. The consensus is that the material likely forms a boroxine-based two-dimensional material. Herein, we apply advanced 11B NMR experiments to determine the relative orientations of B(B)O2 centers in BO. We find that the material is composed of D2h-symmetric O2B-BO2 units that organize to form larger B4O2 rings. Further, powder diffraction experiments additionally reveal that these units organize to form two-dimensional layers with a random stacking pattern. This observation is in agreement with earlier density functional theory (DFT) studies that showed B4O2-based structures to be the most stable.
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- Frédéric A Perras
- Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Arunachalam V, Sharma K, Mote KR, Madhu PK. Asynchronising five-fold symmetry sequence for better homonuclear polarisation transfer in magic-angle-spinning solid-state NMR. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2023; 124:101858. [PMID: 36796278 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2023.101858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2022] [Revised: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Recoupling, decoupling, and multidimensional correlation experiments in magic-angle-spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR can be designed by exploiting the symmetry of internal spin interactions. One such scheme, namely, C521, and its supercycled version SPC521, notated as a five-fold symmetry sequence, is widely used for double-quantum dipole-dipole recoupling. Such schemes are generally rotor synchronised by design. We demonstrate an asynchronous implementation of the SPC521 sequence leading to higher double-quantum homonuclear polarisation transfer efficiency compared to the normal synchronous implementation. Rotor-synchronisation is broken in two different ways: lengthening the duration of one of the pulses, denoted as pulse-width variation (PWV), and mismatching the MAS frequency denoted as MAS variation (MASV). The application of this asynchronous sequence is shown on three different samples, namely, U-13C-alanine and 1,4-13C-labelled ammonium phthalate which include 13Cα-13Cβ, 13Cα-13Co, and 13Co-13Co spin systems, and adenosine 5'- triphosphate disodium salt trihydrate (ATP⋅3H2O). We show that the asynchronous version performs better for spin pairs with small dipole-dipole couplings and large chemical-shift anisotropies, for example, 13Co-13Co. Simulations and experiments are shown to corroborate the results.
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- Vaishali Arunachalam
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally Village, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500046, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally Village, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500046, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally Village, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500046, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally Village, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500046, India.
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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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Xue K, Nimerovsky E, Tekwani Movellan KA, Becker S, Andreas LB. Backbone Torsion Angle Determination Using Proton Detected Magic-Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:18-24. [PMID: 34957837 PMCID: PMC8762656 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Protein torsion angles define the backbone secondary structure of proteins. Magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR methods using carbon detection have been developed to measure torsion angles by determining the relative orientation between two anisotropic interactions─dipolar coupling or chemical shift anisotropy. Here we report a new proton-detection based method to determine the backbone torsion angle by recoupling NH and CH dipolar couplings within the HCANH pulse sequence, for protonated or partly deuterated samples. We demonstrate the efficiency and precision of the method with microcrystalline chicken α spectrin SH3 protein and the influenza A matrix 2 (M2) membrane protein, using 55 or 90 kHz MAS. For M2, pseudo-4D data detect a turn between transmembrane and amphipathic helices.
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van der Wel PCA. Dihedral Angle Measurements for Structure Determination by Biomolecular Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:791090. [PMID: 34938776 PMCID: PMC8685456 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.791090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In structural studies of immobilized, aggregated and self-assembled biomolecules, solid-state NMR (ssNMR) spectroscopy can provide valuable high-resolution structural information. Among the structural restraints provided by magic angle spinning (MAS) ssNMR the canonical focus is on inter-atomic distance measurements. In the current review, we examine the utility of ssNMR measurements of angular constraints, as a complement to distance-based structure determination. The focus is on direct measurements of angular restraints via the judicious recoupling of multiple anisotropic ssNMR parameters, such as dipolar couplings and chemical shift anisotropies. Recent applications are highlighted, with a focus on studies of nanocrystalline polypeptides, aggregated peptides and proteins, receptor-substrate interactions, and small molecule interactions with amyloid protein fibrils. The review also examines considerations of when and where ssNMR torsion angle experiments are (most) effective, and discusses challenges and opportunities for future applications.
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- Patrick C. A. van der Wel
- Solid-state NMR Group, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Nimerovsky E, Soutar CP. A modification of γ-encoded RN symmetry pulses for increasing the scaling factor and more accurate measurements of the strong heteronuclear dipolar couplings. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2020; 319:106827. [PMID: 32950918 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Revised: 09/02/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Symmetry based γ-encoded RNnν elements are broadly used in magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR experiments to achieve selective recoupling of the heteronuclear dipolar interactions. The recoupled dipolar couplings in such experiments are scaled by a factor, Ksc, which theoretically depends on the chosen symmetry numbers N, n, and ν. However, the maximum theoretical value of Ksc for γ-encoded RNnν pulses is limited to ~0.25, resulting in long RNnν experiment times. Also, the dependence of Ksc on the experimental parameters can result in systematic errors in the experimental determination of the dipolar couplings, especially at low and moderate MAS rates. In this manuscript, we investigate the use of MODifiEd RNnν symmetry (MODERNnν(ϕM)) pulses that increase the dipolar scaling factor by at least 1.45 fold compared to γ-encoded RNnν. The second advantage of MODERNnν(ϕM) pulses with respect to traditional RNnν pulses is the reduced influence of experimental parameters on Ksc, which allows for more accurate measurement of short-range distances. The robustness of MODERNnν(ϕM) is compared with γ-encoded R1423 symmetry pulses. The enhanced performance is demonstrated on two uniformly-13C-enriched samples, N-acetyl valine and the microcrystalline protein GB1, at a 31.111 kHz MAS rate.
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- Evgeny Nimerovsky
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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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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Duan P, Schmidt-Rohr K. Quick, selective NMR spectra of COH moieties in 13C-enriched solids. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2019; 301:80-84. [PMID: 30852301 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Revised: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A convenient one-dimensional magic-angle spinning NMR method is presented that provides selective NMR spectra of COH moieties in uniformly 13C-enriched organic materials. This method, termed hydroxyl-proton selection (HOPS), eliminates the magnetization of protons directly bonded to carbons by recoupling the 1H-13C dipolar interaction for a short time (∼70 μs), which also serves as a chemical-shift filter to suppress 1H magnetization of CH3 groups. After cross polarization to 13C, the signals of COH and COOH carbons are observed selectively. This makes it possible to distinguish alcohols from ethers, in particular phenols from aromatic ethers such as the furans often formed by dehydration of glucose, and carboxylic acids from carboxylates and ethers. HOPS NMR reveals that orthodiphenols are often a major component of low-temperature carbon materials. For instance, it forces the reassignment of the 143 ppm 13C NMR signal of hydrothermal carbon to such catecholic diphenols, while a previous NMR-based structural model had attributed this peak to a central furan-furan linkage.
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- Pu Duan
- Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, United States.
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Della Ripa LA, Petros ZA, Cioffi AG, Piehl DW, Courtney JM, Burke MD, Rienstra CM. Solid-State NMR of highly 13C-enriched cholesterol in lipid bilayers. Methods 2018; 138-139:47-53. [PMID: 29366688 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Revised: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Cholesterol (Chol) is vital for cell function as it is essential to a myriad of biochemical and biophysical processes. The atomistic details of Chol's interactions with phospholipids and proteins is therefore of fundamental interest, and NMR offers unique opportunities to interrogate these properties at high resolution. Towards this end, here we describe approaches for examining the structure and dynamics of Chol in lipid bilayers using high levels of 13C enrichment in combination with magic-angle spinning (MAS) methods. We quantify the incorporation levels and demonstrate high sensitivity and resolution in 2D 13C-13C and 1H-13C spectra, enabling de novo assignments and site-resolved order parameter measurements obtained in a fraction of the time required for experiments with natural abundance sterols. We envision many potential future applications of these methods to study sterol interactions with drugs, lipids and proteins.
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- Lisa A Della Ripa
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA; Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA; Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA; Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA; Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
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Molugu TR, Lee S, Brown MF. Concepts and Methods of Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Applied to Biomembranes. Chem Rev 2017; 117:12087-12132. [PMID: 28906107 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Concepts of solid-state NMR spectroscopy and applications to fluid membranes are reviewed in this paper. Membrane lipids with 2H-labeled acyl chains or polar head groups are studied using 2H NMR to yield knowledge of their atomistic structures in relation to equilibrium properties. This review demonstrates the principles and applications of solid-state NMR by unifying dipolar and quadrupolar interactions and highlights the unique features offered by solid-state 2H NMR with experimental illustrations. For randomly oriented multilamellar lipids or aligned membranes, solid-state 2H NMR enables direct measurement of residual quadrupolar couplings (RQCs) due to individual C-2H-labeled segments. The distribution of RQC values gives nearly complete profiles of the segmental order parameters SCD(i) as a function of acyl segment position (i). Alternatively, one can measure residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) for natural abundance lipid samples to obtain segmental SCH order parameters. A theoretical mean-torque model provides acyl-packing profiles representing the cumulative chain extension along the normal to the aqueous interface. Equilibrium structural properties of fluid bilayers and various thermodynamic quantities can then be calculated, which describe the interactions with cholesterol, detergents, peptides, and integral membrane proteins and formation of lipid rafts. One can also obtain direct information for membrane-bound peptides or proteins by measuring RDCs using magic-angle spinning (MAS) in combination with dipolar recoupling methods. Solid-state NMR methods have been extensively applied to characterize model membranes and membrane-bound peptides and proteins, giving unique information on their conformations, orientations, and interactions in the natural liquid-crystalline state.
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- Trivikram R Molugu
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡Department of Physics, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡Department of Physics, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡Department of Physics, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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Good D, Pham C, Jagas J, Lewandowski JR, Ladizhansky V. Solid-State NMR Provides Evidence for Small-Amplitude Slow Domain Motions in a Multispanning Transmembrane α-Helical Protein. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:9246-9258. [PMID: 28613900 PMCID: PMC5510093 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Proteins are dynamic entities and populate ensembles of conformations. Transitions between states within a conformational ensemble occur over a broad spectrum of amplitude and time scales, and are often related to biological function. Whereas solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy has recently been used to characterize conformational ensembles of proteins in the microcrystalline states, its applications to membrane proteins remain limited. Here we use SSNMR to study conformational dynamics of a seven-helical transmembrane (TM) protein, Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin (ASR) reconstituted in lipids. We report on site-specific measurements of the 15N longitudinal R1 and rotating frame R1ρ relaxation rates at two fields of 600 and 800 MHz and at two temperatures of 7 and 30 °C. Quantitative analysis of the R1 and R1ρ values and of their field and temperature dependencies provides evidence of motions on at least two time scales. We modeled these motions as fast local motions and slower collective motions of TM helices and of structured loops, and used the simple model-free and extended model-free analyses to fit the data and estimate the amplitudes, time scales and activation energies. Faster picosecond (tens to hundreds of picoseconds) local motions occur throughout the protein and are dominant in the middle portions of the TM helices. In contrast, the amplitudes of the slower collective motions occurring on the nanosecond (tens to hundreds of nanoseconds) time scales, are smaller in the central parts of helices, but increase toward their cytoplasmic sides as well as in the interhelical loops. ASR interacts with a soluble transducer protein on its cytoplasmic surface, and its binding affinity is modulated by light. The larger amplitude of motions on the cytoplasmic side of the TM helices correlates with the ability of ASR to undergo large conformational changes in the process of binding/unbinding the transducer.
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- Daryl Good
- Department
of Physics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University
of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department
of Physics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University
of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department
of Physics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University
of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Physics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University
of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Piehl D, Blancas-Mejía LM, Wall JS, Kennel SJ, Ramirez-Alvarado M, Rienstra CM. Immunoglobulin Light Chains Form an Extensive and Highly Ordered Fibril Involving the N- and C-Termini. ACS OMEGA 2017; 2:712-720. [PMID: 28261692 PMCID: PMC5331457 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.6b00494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2016] [Accepted: 02/08/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Light-chain (AL)-associated amyloidosis is a systemic disorder involving the formation and deposition of immunoglobulin AL fibrils in various bodily organs. One severe instance of AL disease is exhibited by the patient-derived variable domain (VL) of the light chain AL-09, a 108 amino acid residue protein containing seven mutations relative to the corresponding germline protein, κI O18/O8 VL. Previous work has demonstrated that the thermodynamic stability of native AL-09 VL is greatly lowered by two of these mutations, Y87H and N34I, whereas a third mutation, K42Q, further increases the kinetics of fibril formation. However, detailed knowledge regarding the residues that are responsible for stabilizing the misfolded fibril structure is lacking. In this study, using solid-state NMR spectroscopy, we show that the majority of the AL-09 VL sequence is immobilized in the fibrils and that the N- and C-terminal portions of the sequence are particularly well-structured. Thus, AL-09 VL forms an extensively ordered and β-strand-rich fibril structure. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the predominant β-sheet secondary structure and rigidity observed for in vitro prepared AL-09 VL fibrils are qualitatively similar to those observed for AL fibrils extracted from postmortem human spleen tissue, suggesting that this conformation may be representative of a common feature of AL fibrils.
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- Dennis
W. Piehl
- Department
of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, and Center for Biophysics and Computational
Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo
Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States
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- Department of Medicine and Department of Radiology, University
of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, 1924 Alcoa Hwy, Knoxville, Tennessee 37920, United States
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- Department of Medicine and Department of Radiology, University
of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, 1924 Alcoa Hwy, Knoxville, Tennessee 37920, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo
Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States
- E-mail: . Phone: (507)-284-2705 (M.R.-A.)
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- Department
of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, and Center for Biophysics and Computational
Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- E-mail: . Phone: (217)-244-4655 (C.M.R.)
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Schanda P, Ernst M. Studying Dynamics by Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications to Biomolecules. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2016; 96:1-46. [PMID: 27110043 PMCID: PMC4836562 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2016.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy is an important technique to study molecular structure, dynamics and interactions, and is rapidly gaining importance in biomolecular sciences. Here we provide an overview of experimental approaches to study molecular dynamics by MAS solid-state NMR, with an emphasis on the underlying theoretical concepts and differences of MAS solid-state NMR compared to solution-state NMR. The theoretical foundations of nuclear spin relaxation are revisited, focusing on the particularities of spin relaxation in solid samples under magic-angle spinning. We discuss the range of validity of Redfield theory, as well as the inherent multi-exponential behavior of relaxation in solids. Experimental challenges for measuring relaxation parameters in MAS solid-state NMR and a few recently proposed relaxation approaches are discussed, which provide information about time scales and amplitudes of motions ranging from picoseconds to milliseconds. We also discuss the theoretical basis and experimental measurements of anisotropic interactions (chemical-shift anisotropies, dipolar and quadrupolar couplings), which give direct information about the amplitude of motions. The potential of combining relaxation data with such measurements of dynamically-averaged anisotropic interactions is discussed. Although the focus of this review is on the theoretical foundations of dynamics studies rather than their application, we close by discussing a small number of recent dynamics studies, where the dynamic properties of proteins in crystals are compared to those in solution.
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- Paul Schanda
- CEA, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 38027 Grenoble, France ; CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 38027 Grenoble, France ; Université Grenoble Alpes, IBS, 38027 Grenoble, France
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- ETH Zürich, Physical Chemistry, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Courtney JM, Rienstra CM. Efficient dipolar double quantum filtering under magic angle spinning without a (1)H decoupling field. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2016; 269:152-156. [PMID: 27314744 PMCID: PMC5019030 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2016.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Revised: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 05/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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We present a systematic study of dipolar double quantum (DQ) filtering in (13)C-labeled organic solids over a range of magic-angle spinning rates, using the SPC-n recoupling sequence element with a range of n symmetry values from 3 to 11. We find that efficient recoupling can be achieved for values n⩾7, provided that the (13)C nutation frequency is on the order of 100kHz or greater. The decoupling-field dependence was investigated and explicit heteronuclear decoupling interference conditions identified. The major determinant of DQ filtering efficiency is the decoupling interference between (13)C and (1)H fields. For (13)C nutation frequencies greater than 75kHz, optimal performance is observed without an applied (1)H field. At spinning rates exceeding 20kHz, symmetry conditions as low as n=3 were found to perform adequately.
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- Joseph M Courtney
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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De Simone A, Mote KR, Veglia G. Structural dynamics and conformational equilibria of SERCA regulatory proteins in membranes by solid-state NMR restrained simulations. Biophys J 2015; 106:2566-76. [PMID: 24940774 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Revised: 03/14/2014] [Accepted: 03/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is emerging as a powerful approach to determine structure, topology, and conformational dynamics of membrane proteins at the atomic level. Conformational dynamics are often inferred and quantified from the motional averaging of the NMR parameters. However, the nature of these motions is difficult to envision based only on spectroscopic data. Here, we utilized restrained molecular dynamics simulations to probe the structural dynamics, topology and conformational transitions of regulatory membrane proteins of the calcium ATPase SERCA, namely sarcolipin and phospholamban, in explicit lipid bilayers. Specifically, we employed oriented solid-state NMR data, such as dipolar couplings and chemical shift anisotropy measured in lipid bicelles, to refine the conformational ensemble of these proteins in lipid membranes. The samplings accurately reproduced the orientations of transmembrane helices and showed a significant degree of convergence with all of the NMR parameters. Unlike the unrestrained simulations, the resulting sarcolipin structures are in agreement with distances and angles for hydrogen bonds in ideal helices. In the case of phospholamban, the restrained ensemble sampled the conformational interconversion between T (helical) and R (unfolded) states for the cytoplasmic region that could not be observed using standard structural refinements with the same experimental data set. This study underscores the importance of implementing NMR data in molecular dynamics protocols to better describe the conformational landscapes of membrane proteins embedded in realistic lipid membranes.
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- Alfonso De Simone
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Wang S, Ladizhansky V. Recent advances in magic angle spinning solid state NMR of membrane proteins. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2014; 82:1-26. [PMID: 25444696 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2014.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Membrane proteins mediate many critical functions in cells. Determining their three-dimensional structures in the native lipid environment has been one of the main objectives in structural biology. There are two major NMR methodologies that allow this objective to be accomplished. Oriented sample NMR, which can be applied to membrane proteins that are uniformly aligned in the magnetic field, has been successful in determining the backbone structures of a handful of membrane proteins. Owing to methodological and technological developments, Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR (ssNMR) spectroscopy has emerged as another major technique for the complete characterization of the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins. First developed on peptides and small microcrystalline proteins, MAS ssNMR has recently been successfully applied to large membrane proteins. In this review we describe recent progress in MAS ssNMR methodologies, which are now available for studies of membrane protein structure determination, and outline a few examples, which highlight the broad capability of ssNMR spectroscopy.
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- Shenlin Wang
- Beijing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada; Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
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Anderson TM, Clay MC, Cioffi AG, Diaz KA, Hisao GS, Tuttle MD, Nieuwkoop AJ, Comellas G, Maryum N, Wang S, Uno BE, Wildeman EL, Gonen T, Rienstra CM, Burke MD. Amphotericin forms an extramembranous and fungicidal sterol sponge. Nat Chem Biol 2014; 10:400-6. [PMID: 24681535 PMCID: PMC3992202 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 323] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2013] [Accepted: 02/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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For over 50 years, amphotericin has remained the powerful but highly toxic last line of defense in treating life-threatening fungal infections in humans with minimal development of microbial resistance. Understanding how this small molecule kills yeast is thus critical for guiding development of derivatives with an improved therapeutic index and other resistance-refractory antimicrobial agents. In the widely accepted ion channel model for its mechanism of cytocidal action, amphotericin forms aggregates inside lipid bilayers that permeabilize and kill cells. In contrast, we report that amphotericin exists primarily in the form of large, extramembranous aggregates that kill yeast by extracting ergosterol from lipid bilayers. These findings reveal that extraction of a polyfunctional lipid underlies the resistance-refractory antimicrobial action of amphotericin and suggests a roadmap for separating its cytocidal and membrane-permeabilizing activities. This new mechanistic understanding is also guiding development of what are to our knowledge the first derivatives of amphotericin that kill yeast but not human cells.
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- Thomas M. Anderson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Good DB, Wang S, Ward ME, Struppe J, Brown LS, Lewandowski JR, Ladizhansky V. Conformational Dynamics of a Seven Transmembrane Helical Protein Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin Probed by Solid-State NMR. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:2833-42. [DOI: 10.1021/ja411633w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Bruker Biospin Ltd., Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Asami S, Reif B. Proton-detected solid-state NMR spectroscopy at aliphatic sites: application to crystalline systems. Acc Chem Res 2013; 46:2089-97. [PMID: 23745638 DOI: 10.1021/ar400063y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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When applied to biomolecules, solid-state NMR suffers from low sensitivity and resolution. The major obstacle to applying proton detection in the solid state is the proton dipolar network, and deuteration can help avoid this problem. In the past, researchers had primarily focused on the investigation of exchangeable protons in these systems. In this Account, we review NMR spectroscopic strategies that allow researchers to observe aliphatic non-exchangeable proton resonances in proteins with high sensitivity and resolution. Our labeling scheme is based on u-[(2)H,(13)C]-glucose and 5-25% H2O (95-75% D2O) in the M9 bacterial growth medium, known as RAP (reduced adjoining protonation). We highlight spectroscopic approaches for obtaining resonance assignments, a prerequisite for any study of structure and dynamics of a protein by NMR spectroscopy. Because of the dilution of the proton spin system in the solid state, solution-state NMR (1)HCC(1)H type strategies cannot easily be transferred to these experiments. Instead, we needed to pursue ((1)H)CC(1)H, CC(1)H, (1)HCC or ((2)H)CC(1)H type experiments. In protonated samples, we obtained distance restraints for structure calculations from samples grown in bacteria in media containing [1,3]-(13)C-glycerol, [2]-(13)C-glycerol, or selectively enriched glucose to dilute the (13)C spin system. In RAP-labeled samples, we obtained a similar dilution effect by randomly introducing protons into an otherwise deuterated matrix. This isotopic labeling scheme allows us to measure the long-range contacts among aliphatic protons, which can then serve as restraints for the three-dimensional structure calculation of a protein. Due to the high gyromagnetic ratio of protons, longer range contacts are more easily accessible for these nuclei than for carbon nuclei in homologous experiments. Finally, the RAP labeling scheme allows access to dynamic parameters, such as longitudinal relaxation times T1, and order parameters S(2) for backbone and side chain carbon resonances. We expect that these measurements will open up new opportunities to obtain a more detailed description of protein backbone and side chain dynamics.
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- Sam Asami
- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (HMGU), Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (HMGU), Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
- Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM) at Department of Chemie, Technische Universität München (TUM), Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Ni QZ, Daviso E, Can TV, Markhasin E, Jawla SK, Swager TM, Temkin RJ, Herzfeld J, Griffin RG. High frequency dynamic nuclear polarization. Acc Chem Res 2013; 46:1933-41. [PMID: 23597038 PMCID: PMC3778063 DOI: 10.1021/ar300348n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 399] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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During the three decades 1980-2010, magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR developed into the method of choice to examine many chemical, physical, and biological problems. In particular, a variety of dipolar recoupling methods to measure distances and torsion angles can now constrain molecular structures to high resolution. However, applications are often limited by the low sensitivity of the experiments, due in large part to the necessity of observing spectra of low-γ nuclei such as the I = 1/2 species (13)C or (15)N. The difficulty is still greater when quadrupolar nuclei, such as (17)O or (27)Al, are involved. This problem has stimulated efforts to increase the sensitivity of MAS experiments. A particularly powerful approach is dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) which takes advantage of the higher equilibrium polarization of electrons (which conventionally manifests in the great sensitivity advantage of EPR over NMR). In DNP, the sample is doped with a stable paramagnetic polarizing agent and irradiated with microwaves to transfer the high polarization in the electron spin reservoir to the nuclei of interest. The idea was first explored by Overhauser and Slichter in 1953. However, these experiments were carried out on static samples, at magnetic fields that are low by current standards. To be implemented in contemporary MAS NMR experiments, DNP requires microwave sources operating in the subterahertz regime, roughly 150-660 GHz, and cryogenic MAS probes. In addition, improvements were required in the polarizing agents, because the high concentrations of conventional radicals that are required to produce significant enhancements compromise spectral resolution. In the last two decades, scientific and technical advances have addressed these problems and brought DNP to the point where it is achieving wide applicability. These advances include the development of high frequency gyrotron microwave sources operating in the subterahertz frequency range. In addition, low temperature MAS probes were developed that permit in situ microwave irradiation of the samples. And, finally, biradical polarizing agents were developed that increased the efficiency of DNP experiments by factors of ∼4 at considerably lower paramagnet concentrations. Collectively, these developments have made it possible to apply DNP on a routine basis to a number of different scientific endeavors, most prominently in the biological and material sciences. This Account reviews these developments, including the primary mechanisms used to transfer polarization in high frequency DNP, and the current choice of microwave sources and biradical polarizing agents. In addition, we illustrate the utility of the technique with a description of applications to membrane and amyloid proteins that emphasizes the unique structural information that is available in these two cases.
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- Qing Zhe Ni
- Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, ‡Department of Chemistry, and §Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Mou Y, Tsai TWT, Chan JCC. Constant time tensor correlation experiments by non-gamma-encoded recoupling pulse sequences. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:164201. [PMID: 23126702 DOI: 10.1063/1.4757957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Constant-time tensor correlation under magic-angle spinning conditions is an important technique in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the measurements of backbone or side-chain torsion angles of polypeptides and proteins. We introduce a general method for the design of constant-time tensor correlation experiments under magic-angle spinning. Our method requires that the amplitude of the average Hamiltonian must depend on all the three Euler angles bringing the principal axis system to the rotor-fixed frame, which is commonly referred to as non-gamma encoding. We abbreviate this novel approach as COrrelation of Non-Gamma-Encoded Experiment (CONGEE), which exploits the orientation-dependence of non-gamma-encoded sequences with respect to the magic-angle rotation axis. By manipulating the relative orientation of the average Hamiltonians created by two non-gamma-encoded sequences, one can obtain a modulation of the detected signal, from which the structural information can be extracted when the tensor orientations relative to the molecular frame are known. CONGEE has a prominent feature that the number of rf pulses and the total pulse sequence duration can be maintained to be constant so that for torsion angle determination the effects of systematic errors owing to the experimental imperfections and/or T(2) effects could be minimized. As a proof of concept, we illustrate the utility of CONGEE in the correlation between the C' chemical shift tensor and the C(α)-H(α) dipolar tensor for the backbone psi angle determination. In addition to a detailed theoretical analysis, numerical simulations and experiments measured for [U-(13)C, (15)N]-L-alanine and N-acetyl-[U-(13)C, (15)N]-D,L-valine are used to validate our approach at a spinning frequency of 20 kHz.
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- Yun Mou
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan
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Hu KN, Qiang W, Bermejo GA, Schwieters CD, Tycko R. Restraints on backbone conformations in solid state NMR studies of uniformly labeled proteins from quantitative amide 15N-15N and carbonyl 13C-13C dipolar recoupling data. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2012; 218:115-27. [PMID: 22449573 PMCID: PMC3568759 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2012] [Accepted: 03/01/2012] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Recent structural studies of uniformly (15)N, (13)C-labeled proteins by solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) rely principally on two sources of structural restraints: (i) restraints on backbone conformation from isotropic (15)N and (13)C chemical shifts, based on empirical correlations between chemical shifts and backbone torsion angles; (ii) restraints on inter-residue proximities from qualitative measurements of internuclear dipole-dipole couplings, detected as the presence or absence of inter-residue crosspeaks in multidimensional spectra. We show that site-specific dipole-dipole couplings among (15)N-labeled backbone amide sites and among (13)C-labeled backbone carbonyl sites can be measured quantitatively in uniformly-labeled proteins, using dipolar recoupling techniques that we call (15)N-BARE and (13)C-BARE (BAckbone REcoupling), and that the resulting data represent a new source of restraints on backbone conformation. (15)N-BARE and (13)C-BARE data can be incorporated into structural modeling calculations as potential energy surfaces, which are derived from comparisons between experimental (15)N and (13)C signal decay curves, extracted from crosspeak intensities in series of two-dimensional spectra, with numerical simulations of the (15)N-BARE and (13)C-BARE measurements. We demonstrate this approach through experiments on microcrystalline, uniformly (15)N, (13)C-labeled protein GB1. Results for GB1 show that (15)N-BARE and (13)C-BARE restraints are complementary to restraints from chemical shifts and inter-residue crosspeaks, improving both the precision and the accuracy of calculated structures.
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- Kan-Nian Hu
- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0520, United States
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- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0520, United States
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- Division of Computational Bioscience, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-5624, United States
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- Division of Computational Bioscience, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-5624, United States
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- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0520, United States
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Andreas LB, Eddy MT, Chou JJ, Griffin RG. Magic-angle-spinning NMR of the drug resistant S31N M2 proton transporter from influenza A. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:7215-8. [PMID: 22480220 DOI: 10.1021/ja3003606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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We report chemical shift assignments of the drug-resistant S31N mutant of M2(18-60) determined using 3D magic-angle-spinning (MAS) NMR spectra acquired with a (15)N-(13)C ZF-TEDOR transfer followed by (13)C-(13)C mixing by RFDR. The MAS spectra reveal two sets of resonances, indicating that the tetramer assembles as a dimer of dimers, similar to the wild-type channel. Helicies from the two sets of chemical shifts are shown to be in close proximity at residue H37, and the assignments reveal a difference in the helix torsion angles, as predicted by TALOS+, for the key resistance residue N31. In contrast to wild-type M2(18-60), chemical shift changes are minimal upon addition of the inhibitor rimantadine, suggesting that the drug does not bind to S31N M2.
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- Loren B Andreas
- Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Schanda P, Meier BH, Ernst M. Accurate measurement of one-bond H-X heteronuclear dipolar couplings in MAS solid-state NMR. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2011; 210:246-59. [PMID: 21482161 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2011.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2011] [Revised: 03/08/2011] [Accepted: 03/14/2011] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The accurate experimental determination of dipolar-coupling constants for one-bond heteronuclear dipolar couplings in solids is a key for the quantification of the amplitudes of motional processes. Averaging of the dipolar coupling reports on motions on time scales up to the inverse of the coupling constant, in our case tens of microseconds. Combining dipolar-coupling derived order parameters that characterize the amplitudes of the motion with relaxation data leads to a more precise characterization of the dynamical parameters and helps to disentangle the amplitudes and the time scales of the motional processes, which impact relaxation rates in a highly correlated way. Here. we describe and characterize an improved experimental protocol--based on REDOR--to measure these couplings in perdeuterated proteins with a reduced sensitivity to experimental missettings. Because such effects are presently the dominant source of systematic errors in experimental dipolar-coupling measurements, these compensated experiments should help to significantly improve the precision of such data. A detailed comparison with other commonly used pulse sequences (T-MREV, phase-inverted CP, R18(2)(5), and R18(1)(7)) is provided.
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- Paul Schanda
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Asami S, Schmieder P, Reif B. High resolution 1H-detected solid-state NMR spectroscopy of protein aliphatic resonances: access to tertiary structure information. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 132:15133-5. [PMID: 20939587 DOI: 10.1021/ja106170h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Biological magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has developed rapidly over the past two decades. For the structure determination of a protein by solid-state NMR, routinely (13)C,(13)C distance restraints as well as dihedral restraints are employed. In protonated samples, this is achieved by growing the bacterium on a medium which contains [1,3]-(13)C glycerol or [2]-(13)C glycerol to dilute the (13)C spin system. Labeling schemes, which rely on heteronuclei, are insensitive both for detection and in terms of quantification of distances, since they are relying on low-γ nuclei. Proton detection can in principle provide a gain in sensitivity by a factor of 8 and 31, compared to the (13)C or (15)N detected version of the experiment. We report here a new labeling scheme, which enables (1)H-detection of aliphatic resonances with high resolution in MAS solid-state NMR spectroscopy. We prepared microcrystals of the SH3 domain of chicken α-spectrin with 5% protonation at nonexchangeable sites and obtained line widths on the order of 25 Hz for aliphatic (1)H resonances. We show further that (13)C resolved 3D-(1)H,(1)H correlation experiments yield access to long-range proton-proton distances in the protein.
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- Sam Asami
- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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Chan JCC. Solid-state NMR techniques for the structural determination of amyloid fibrils. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2011; 306:47-88. [PMID: 21630137 DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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This review discusses the solid-state NMR techniques developed for the study of amyloid fibrils. Literature up to the end of 2010 has been surveyed and the materials are organized according to five categories, viz. homonuclear dipolar recoupling and polarization transfer via J-coupling, heteronuclear dipolar recoupling, correlation spectroscopy, recoupling of chemical shift anisotropy, and tensor correlation. Our emphasis is on the NMR techniques and their practical aspects. The biological implications of the results obtained for amyloid fibrils are only briefly discussed. Our main objective is to showcase the power of NMR in the study of biological unoriented solids.
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- Jerry C C Chan
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Hou G, Paramasivam S, Byeon IJL, Gronenborn AM, Polenova T. Determination of relative tensor orientations by γ-encoded chemical shift anisotropy/heteronuclear dipolar coupling 3D NMR spectroscopy in biological solids. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:14873-83. [PMID: 20936218 PMCID: PMC3160241 DOI: 10.1039/c0cp00795a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In this paper, we present 3D chemical shift anisotropy (CSA)/dipolar coupling correlation experiments, based on γ-encoded R-type symmetry sequences. The γ-encoded correlation spectra are exquisitely sensitive to the relative orientation of the CSA and dipolar tensors and can provide important structural and dynamic information in peptides and proteins. We show that the first-order (m = ±1) and second-order (m = ±2) Hamiltonians in the R-symmetry recoupling sequences give rise to different correlation patterns due to their different dependencies on the crystallite orientation. The relative orientation between CSA and dipolar tensors can be determined by fitting the corresponding correlation patterns. The orientation of (15)N CSA tensor in the quasi-molecular frame is determined by the relative Euler angles, α(NH) and β(NH), when the combined symmetry schemes are applied for orientational studies of (1)H-(15)N dipolar and (15)N CSA tensors. The correlation experiments introduced here work at moderate magic angle spinning frequencies (10-20 kHz) and allow for simultaneous measurement of multiple sites of interest. We studied the orientational sensitivity of γ-encoded symmetry-based recoupling techniques numerically and experimentally. The results are demonstrated on [(15)N]-N-acetyl-valine (NAV) and N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe (MLF) tripeptide.
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- Guangjin Hou
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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Caporini MA, Bajaj VS, Veshtort M, Fitzpatrick A, MacPhee CE, Vendruscolo M, Dobson CM, Griffin RG. Accurate determination of interstrand distances and alignment in amyloid fibrils by magic angle spinning NMR. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:13555-61. [PMID: 20925357 PMCID: PMC2959142 DOI: 10.1021/jp106675h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Amyloid fibrils are structurally ordered aggregates of proteins whose formation is associated with many neurodegenerative and other diseases. For that reason, their high-resolution structures are of considerable interest and have been studied using a wide range of techniques, notably electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR. Because of the excellent resolution in the spectra, MAS NMR is uniquely capable of delivering site-specific, atomic resolution information about all levels of amyloid structure: (1) the monomer, which packs into several (2) protofilaments that in turn associate to form a (3) fibril. Building upon our high-resolution structure of the monomer of an amyloid-forming peptide from transthyretin (TTR(105-115)), we introduce single 1-(13)C labeled amino acids at seven different sites in the peptide and measure intermolecular carbonyl-carbonyl distances with an accuracy of ~0.11 A. Our results conclusively establish a parallel, in register, topology for the packing of this peptide into a β-sheet and provide constraints essential for the determination of an atomic resolution structure of the fibril. Furthermore, the approach we employ, based on a combination of a double-quantum filtered variant of the DRAWS recoupling sequence and multispin numerical simulations in SPINEVOLUTION, is general and should be applicable to a wide range of systems.
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- Marc A Caporini
- Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Gortari ID, Portella G, Salvatella X, Bajaj VS, van der Wel PCA, Yates JR, Segall MD, Pickard CJ, Payne MC, Vendruscolo M. Time Averaging of NMR Chemical Shifts in the MLF Peptide in the Solid State. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:5993-6000. [DOI: 10.1021/ja9062629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Itzam De Gortari
- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom, Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom, and Department of Chemistry, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts 02139
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Bertini I, Bhaumik A, De Paëpe G, Griffin RG, Lelli M, Lewandowski JR, Luchinat C. High-resolution solid-state NMR structure of a 17.6 kDa protein. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:1032-40. [PMID: 20041641 DOI: 10.1021/ja906426p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The use of pseudocontact shifts arising from paramagnetic metal ions in a microcrystalline protein sample is proposed as a strategy to obtain unambiguous signal assignments in solid-state NMR spectra enabling distance extraction for protein structure calculation. With this strategy, 777 unambiguous (281 sequential, 217 medium-range, and 279 long-range) distance restraints could be obtained from PDSD, DARR, CHHC, and the recently introduced PAR and PAIN-CP solid-state experiments for the cobalt(II)-substituted catalytic domain of matrix metalloproteinase 12 (159 amino acids, 17.6 kDa). The obtained structure is a high resolution one, with backbone rmsd of 1.0 +/- 0.2 A, and is in good agreement with the X-ray structure (rmsd to X-ray 1.3 A). The proposed strategy, which may be generalized for nonmetalloproteins with the use of paramagnetic tags, represents a significant step ahead in protein structure determination using solid-state NMR.
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- Ivano Bertini
- Magnetic Resonance Center, CERM, University of Florence, Via L. Sacconi, 6-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Helmus JJ, Surewicz K, Surewicz WK, Jaroniec CP. Conformational flexibility of Y145Stop human prion protein amyloid fibrils probed by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:2393-403. [PMID: 20121096 PMCID: PMC2838504 DOI: 10.1021/ja909827v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Amyloid aggregates of a C-truncated Y145Stop mutant of human prion protein, huPrP23-144, associated with a heritable amyloid angiopathy, have previously been shown to contain a compact, relatively rigid, and beta-sheet-rich approximately 30-residue amyloid core near the C-terminus under physiologically relevant conditions. In contrast, the remaining huPrP23-144 residues display considerable conformational dynamics, as evidenced by the absence of corresponding signals in cross-polarization (CP)-based solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectra under ambient conditions and their emergence in analogous spectra recorded at low temperature on frozen fibril samples. Here, we present the direct observation of residues comprising the flexible N-terminal domain of huPrP23-144 amyloid by using 2D J-coupling-based magic-angle spinning (MAS) SSNMR techniques. Chemical shifts for these residues indicate that the N-terminal domain is effectively an ensemble of protein chains with random-coil-like conformations. Interestingly, a detailed analysis of signal intensities in CP-based 3D SSNMR spectra suggests that non-negligible molecular motions may also be occurring on the NMR time scale within the relatively rigid core of huPrP23-144 amyloid. To further investigate this hypothesis, quantitative measurements of backbone dipolar order parameters and transverse spin relaxation rates were performed for the core residues. The observed order parameters indicate that, on the submicrosecond time scale, these residues are effectively rigid and experience only highly restricted and relatively uniform motions similar to those characteristic for well-structured regions of microcrystalline proteins. On the other hand, significant variations in magnitude of transverse spin relaxation rates were noted for residues present at different locations within the core region and correlated with observed differences in spectral intensities. While interpreted only qualitatively at the present time, the extent of the observed variations in transverse relaxation rates is consistent with the presence of relatively slow, microsecond-millisecond time scale chemical exchange type phenomena within the huPrP23-144 amyloid core.
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- Jonathan J. Helmus
- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
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Patching SG, Edwards R, Middleton DA. Structural analysis of uniformly (13)C-labelled solids from selective angle measurements at rotational resonance. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2009; 199:242-246. [PMID: 19487142 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2009] [Revised: 04/24/2009] [Accepted: 05/04/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We demonstrate that individual H-C-C-H torsional angles in uniformly labelled organic solids can be estimated by selective excitation of (13)C double-quantum coherences under magic-angle spinning at rotational resonance. By adapting a straightforward one-dimensional experiment described earlier [T. Karlsson, M. Eden, H. Luhman, M.H. Levitt, J. Magn. Reson. 145 (2000) 95-107], a double-quantum filtered spectrum selective for Calpha and Cbeta of uniformly labelled L-[(13)C,(15)N]valine is obtained with 25% efficiency. The evolution of Calpha-Cbeta double-quantum coherence under the influence of the dipolar fields of bonded protons is monitored to provide a value of the Halpha-Calpha-Cbeta-Hbeta torsional angle that is consistent with the crystal structure. In addition, double-quantum filtration selective for C6 and C1' of uniformly labelled [(13)C,(15)N]uridine is achieved with 12% efficiency for a (13)C-(13)C distance of 2.5A, yielding a reliable estimate of the C6-H and C1'-H projection angle defining the relative orientations of the nucleoside pyrimidine and ribose rings. This procedure will be useful, in favourable cases, for structural analysis of fully labelled small molecules such as receptor ligands that are not readily synthesised with labels placed selectively at structurally diagnostic sites.
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- Simon G Patching
- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Hong M, Mishanina TV, Cady SD. Accurate measurement of methyl 13C chemical shifts by solid-state NMR for the determination of protein side chain conformation: the influenza a M2 transmembrane peptide as an example. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:7806-16. [PMID: 19441789 DOI: 10.1021/ja901550q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The use of side chain methyl (13)C chemical shifts for the determination of the rotameric conformation of Val and Leu residues in proteins by solid-state NMR spectroscopy is described. Examination of the solution NMR stereospecifically assigned methyl groups shows significant correlation between the difference in the two methyl carbons' chemical shifts and the side chain conformation. It is found that alpha-helical and beta-sheet backbones cause different side chain methyl chemical shift trends. In alpha-helical Leu's, a relatively large absolute methyl (13)C shift difference of 2.89 ppm is found for the most populated mt rotamer (chi(1) = -60 degrees, chi(2) = 180 degrees), while a much smaller value of 0.73 ppm is found for the next populated tp rotamer (chi(1) = 180 degrees, chi(2) = 60 degrees). For alpha-helical Val residues, the dominant t rotamer (chi(1) = 180 degrees) has more downfield Cgamma2 chemical shifts than Cgamma1 by 1.71 ppm, while the next populated m rotamer (chi(1) = -60 degrees) shows the opposite trend of more downfield Cgamma1 chemical shift by 1.23 ppm. These significantly different methyl (13)C chemical shifts exist despite the likelihood of partial rotameric averaging at ambient temperature. We show that these conformation-dependent methyl (13)C chemical shifts can be utilized for side chain structure determination once the methyl (13)C resonances are accurately measured by double-quantum (DQ) filtered 2D correlation experiments, most notably the dipolar DQ to single-quantum (SQ) correlation technique. The advantage of the DQ-SQ correlation experiment over simple 2D SQ-SQ correlation experiments is demonstrated on the transmembrane peptide of the influenza A M2 proton channel. The methyl chemical shifts led to predictions of the side chain rotameric states for several Val and Leu residues in this tetrameric helical bundle. The predicted Val rotamers were further verified by dipolar correlation experiments that directly measure the chi(1) torsion angles. It was found that the chemical-shift-predicted side chain conformations are fully consistent with the direct torsion angle results; moreover, the methyl (13)C chemical shifts are sensitive to approximately 5 degrees changes in the chi(1) torsion angle due to drug binding.
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- Mei Hong
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
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McDermott A. Structure and dynamics of membrane proteins by magic angle spinning solid-state NMR. Annu Rev Biophys 2009; 38:385-403. [PMID: 19245337 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Membrane proteins remain difficult to study by traditional methods. Magic angle spinning solid-state NMR (MAS SSNMR) methods present an important approach for studying membrane proteins of moderate size. Emerging MAS SSNMR methods are based on extensive assignments of the nuclei as a basis for structure determination and characterization of function. These methods have already been used to characterize fibrils and globular proteins and are being increasingly used to study membrane proteins embedded in lipids. This review highlights recent applications to intrinsic membrane proteins and summarizes recent technical advances that will enable these methods to be utilized for more complex membrane protein systems in the near future.
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- Ann McDermott
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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Nadaud PS, Helmus JJ, Kall SL, Jaroniec CP. Paramagnetic Ions Enable Tuning of Nuclear Relaxation Rates and Provide Long-Range Structural Restraints in Solid-State NMR of Proteins. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:8108-20. [DOI: 10.1021/ja900224z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Philippe S. Nadaud
- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Bajaj VS, van der Wel PC, Griffin RG. Observation of a low-temperature, dynamically driven structural transition in a polypeptide by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:118-28. [PMID: 19067520 PMCID: PMC2651395 DOI: 10.1021/ja8045926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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At reduced temperatures, proteins and other biomolecules are generally found to exhibit dynamic as well as structural transitions. This includes a so-called protein glass transition that is universally observed in systems cooled between 200 and 230 K, and which is generally attributed to interactions between hydrating solvent molecules and protein side chains. However, there is also experimental and theoretical evidence for a low-temperature transition in the intrinsic dynamics of the protein itself, absent any solvent. Here, we use low-temperature solid-state NMR to examine site-specific fluctuations in atomic structure and dynamics in the absence of solvents. In particular, we employ magic angle spinning NMR to examine a structural phase transition associated with dynamic processes in a solvent-free polypeptide, N-f-MLF-OH, lattice at temperatures as low as 90 K. This transition is characterized by the appearance of an extra set of lines in 1D (15)N spectra as well as additional cross peaks in 2D (13)C-(13)C and (13)C-(15)N spectra. Interestingly, the gradual, temperature-dependent appearance of the new spectral component is not accompanied by the line broadening typical of dynamic transitions. A direct comparison between the spectra of N-f-MLF-OH and the analog N-f-MLF-OMe, which does not display this transition, indicates a correlation of the structural transition to the temperature dependent motion of the aromatic phenylalanine side chain. Several quantitative solid state NMR experiments were employed to provide site-specific measurements of structural and motional features of the observed transition.
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- Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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Breitung ST, Lopez JJ, Dürner G, Glaubitz C, Göbel MW, Suhartono M. A practical synthesis of the 16C/15N-labelled tripeptide N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe, useful as a reference in solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Beilstein J Org Chem 2008; 4:35. [PMID: 18982075 PMCID: PMC2577282 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.4.35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2008] [Accepted: 10/01/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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A mild synthetic method for N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe-OH (1) is described. After Fmoc solid phase peptide synthesis, on-bead formylation and HPLC purification, more than 30 mg of the fully 13C/15N-labelled tripeptide 1 could be isolated in a typical batch. This peptide can be easily crystallised and is therefore well suited as a standard sample for setting up solid-state NMR experiments.
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- Sven T Breitung
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Emmler T, Ayala I, Silverman D, Hafner S, Galstyan AS, Knapp EW, Buntkowsky G. Combined NMR and computational study for azide binding to human manganese superoxide dismutase. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2008; 34:6-13. [PMID: 18420387 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2008.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Human manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) labeled with 3-fluorotyrosine (Tyf) was complexed with the (15)N-labeled inhibitor azide ([(15)N(3)(-)]). The sample was characterized by solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy ((19)F-MAS and (15)N-CPMAS). Employing (19)F-(15)N-REDOR spectroscopy, we determined the distances between the fluorine label in Tyrosine-34 and the three (15)N-nuclei of the azide and the relative orientation of the azide in the binding pocket of the MnSOD. A distance of R(1)=4.85A between the (19)F-label of Tyf34 and the nearest (15)N of the azide and an azide-fluorotyrosine Tyf34 angle of 90 degrees were determined. These geometry data are employed as input for molecular modeling of the location of the inhibitor in the active site of the enzyme. In the computations, several possible binding geometries of the azide near the Mn-complex were assumed. Only when the azide replaces the water ligand at the Mn-complex we obtained a geometry of the azide-Mn-complex, which is consistent with the present NMR data. This indicates that the water molecule ligating to the Mn-complex is removed and the azide is placed at this position. As a consequence the azide forms an H bond with Gln143 instead with Tyf34, in contrast to non-(19)F-labeled MnSOD, where the azide is hydrogen bonded to the hydroxy group of Tyr34.
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- Th Emmler
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse 3,6 D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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Steric Zipper of the Amyloid Fibrils Formed by Residues 109–122 of the Syrian Hamster Prion Protein. J Mol Biol 2008; 378:1142-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.03.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2007] [Revised: 03/04/2008] [Accepted: 03/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Qian C, Thureau P, Martin RW. Variable angle spinning (VAS) experiments for strongly oriented systems: methods development and preliminary results. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2008; 46:351-355. [PMID: 18306174 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Variable angle spinning (VAS) experiments provide a useful method for measuring long-range dipolar couplings and obtaining isotropic-anisotropic correlation spectra. These experiments make it possible to obtain correlations between isotropic and anisotropic spectra without altering the chemical composition of the sample. They also allow working with very strongly oriented systems that are not accessible to solution-state techniques. In this communication, we discuss recent hardware developments in our laboratory and show representative data from small molecules in strongly oriented liquid-crystalline samples.
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- Chunqi Qian
- Department of Chemistry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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De Paëpe G, Lewandowski JR, Griffin RG. Spin dynamics in the modulation frame: Application to homonuclear recoupling in magic angle spinning solid-state NMR. J Chem Phys 2008; 128:124503. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2834732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dipole tensor-based atomic-resolution structure determination of a nanocrystalline protein by solid-state NMR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:4621-6. [PMID: 18344321 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0712393105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Magic-angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR (SSNMR) techniques have emerged in recent years for solving complete structures of uniformly labeled proteins lacking macroscopic order. Strategies used thus far have relied primarily on semiquantitative distance restraints, analogous to the nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) routinely used in solution NMR. Here, we present a complementary approach for using relative orientations of molecular fragments, determined from dipolar line shapes. Whereas SSNMR distance restraints typically have an uncertainty of approximately 1 A, the tensor-based experiments report on relative vector (pseudobond) angles with precision of a few degrees. By using 3D techniques of this type, vector angle (VEAN) restraints were determined for the majority of the 56-residue B1 immunoglobulin binding domain of protein G [protein GB1 (a total of 47 HN-HN, 49 HN-HC, and 12 HA-HB restraints)]. By using distance restraints alone in the structure calculations, the overall backbone root-mean-square deviation (bbRMSD) was 1.01 +/- 0.13 A (1.52 +/- 0.12 A for all heavy atoms), which improved to 0.49 +/- 0.05 A (1.19 +/- 0.07 A) on the addition of empirical chemical shift [torsion angle likelihood obtained from shift and sequence similarity (TALOS)] restraints. VEAN restraints further improved the ensemble to 0.31 +/- 0.06 A bbRMSD (1.06 +/- 0.07 A); relative to the structure with distances alone, most of the improvement remained (bbRMSD 0.64 +/- 0.09 A; 1.29 +/- 0.07 A) when TALOS restraints were removed before refinement. These results represent significant progress toward atomic-resolution protein structure determination by SSNMR, capabilities that can be applied to a large range of membrane proteins and fibrils, which are often not amenable to solution NMR or x-ray crystallography.
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Anastasi AE, Walton PH, Lindsay Smith JR, Sameera WM, McGrady JE. On the oxidation of alkyl and aryl sulfides by [(Me3TACN)MnVO(OH)2]+: A density functional study. Inorganica Chim Acta 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2007.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Loquet A, Bardiaux B, Gardiennet C, Blanchet C, Baldus M, Nilges M, Malliavin T, Böckmann A. 3D Structure Determination of the Crh Protein from Highly Ambiguous Solid-State NMR Restraints. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:3579-89. [DOI: 10.1021/ja078014t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Antoine Loquet
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS Université Lyon 1, IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France, Unité de Bio-Informatique Structurale, URA 2185 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France, and Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Mehta MA, Eddy MT, McNeill SA, Mills FD, Long JR. Determination of Peptide Backbone Torsion Angles Using Double-Quantum Dipolar Recoupling Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:2202-12. [DOI: 10.1021/ja074244w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Manish A. Mehta
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 119 Woodland Street, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 119 Woodland Street, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 119 Woodland Street, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 119 Woodland Street, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 119 Woodland Street, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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Sameera WMC, McGrady JE. The role of substrate in unmasking oxyl character in oxomanganese complexes: the key to selectivity? Dalton Trans 2008:6141-9. [DOI: 10.1039/b809868a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Peng X, Libich D, Janik R, Harauz G, Ladizhansky V. Dipolar Chemical Shift Correlation Spectroscopy for Homonuclear Carbon Distance Measurements in Proteins in the Solid State: Application to Structure Determination and Refinement. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 130:359-69. [DOI: 10.1021/ja076658v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Xiaohu Peng
- Department of Physics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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- Department of Physics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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- Department of Physics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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- Department of Physics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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- Department of Physics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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