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Wi S, Li C, Pham K, Lee W, Frydman L. Short and long range 2D 15N- 15N NMR correlations among peptide groups by novel solid state dipolar mixing schemes. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2024; 78:19-30. [PMID: 38102490 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-023-00429-0] [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: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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A recently developed homonuclear dipolar recoupling scheme, Adiabatic Linearly FREquency Swept reCOupling (AL FRESCO), was applied to record two-dimensional (2D) 15N-15N correlations on uniformly 15N-labeled GB1 powders. A major feature exploited in these 15N-15N correlations was AL FRESCO's remarkably low RF power demands, which enabled seconds-long mixing schemes when establishing direct correlations. These 15N-15N mixing schemes proved efficient regardless of the magic-angle spinning (MAS) rate and, being nearly free from dipolar truncation effects, they enabled the detection of long-range, weak dipolar couplings, even in the presence of strong short-range dipolar couplings. This led to a connectivity information that was significantly better than that obtained with spontaneously proton-driven, 15N spin-diffusion experiments. An indirect approach producing long-range 15N-15N correlations was also tested, relying on short (ms-long) 1HN-1HN mixings schemes while applying AL FRESCO chirped pulses along the 15N channel. These indirect mixing schemes produced numerous long-distance Ni-Ni±n (n = 2 - 5) correlations, that might be useful for characterizing three-dimensional arrangements in proteins. Once again, these AL FRESCO mediated experiments proved more informative than variants based on spin-diffusion-based 1HN-1HN counterparts.
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- Sungsool Wi
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32304, USA.
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, 80217-3364, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, 80217-3364, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32304, USA.
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel.
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Di W, Xue K, Cai J, Zhu Z, Li Z, Fu H, Lei H, Hu W, Tang C, Wang W, Cao Y. Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Cation-π Interactions in Aqueous Media Are Highly Affected by Cation Dehydration. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:118101. [PMID: 37001074 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.118101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Cation-π interactions underlie many important processes in biology and materials science. However, experimental investigations of cation-π interactions in aqueous media remain challenging. Here, we studied the cation-π binding strength and mechanism by pulling two hydrophobic polymers with distinct cation binding properties, i.e., poly-pentafluorostyrene and polystyrene, in aqueous media using single-molecule force spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance measurement. We found that the interaction strengths linearly depend on the cation concentrations, following the order of Li^{+}<NH_{4}^{+}<Na^{+}<K^{+}. The binding energies are 0.03-0.23 kJ mol^{-1} M^{-1}. This order is distinct from the strength of cation-π interactions in gas phase and may be caused by the different dehydration ability of the cations. Taken together, our method provides a unique perspective to investigate cation-π interactions under physiologically relevant conditions.
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- Weishuai Di
- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Biophysics, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- School of Physical and Mathematical Science Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Institute for Brain Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Biophysics, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Institute for Brain Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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Meier BH, Böckmann A. Solid-State NMR Structure of Amyloid-β Fibrils. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2551:53-62. [PMID: 36310196 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2597-2_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Amyloid fibrils are involved in a number of diseases and notably play a role in neurodegeneration, where they are present in plaques in the brain. Their structure determination might help in finding ways to interfere with their formation, and ultimately prevent disease, by revealing the structure-function relationship and helping to design molecules targeting initial assembly steps and further propagation. Here, we describe the different steps in NMR protocols which allowed the 3D structure determination of amyloid-β fibrils.
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- Beat H Meier
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, Lyon, France.
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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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Mathew R, Stevensson B, Edén M. Refined Structures of O-Phospho-l-serine and Its Calcium Salt by New Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Crystallography Methods. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:10985-11004. [PMID: 34553936 PMCID: PMC8503883 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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O-phospho-l-serine (Pser) and its Ca salt, Ca[O-phospho-l-serine]·H2O (CaPser), play important roles for bone mineralization and were recently also proposed to account for the markedly improved bone-adhesive properties of Pser-doped calcium phosphate-based cements for biomedical implants. However, the hitherto few proposed structural models of Pser and CaPser were obtained by X-ray diffraction, thereby leaving the proton positions poorly defined. Herein, we refine the Pser and CaPser structures by density functional theory (DFT) calculations and contrast them with direct interatomic-distance constraints from two-dimensional (2D) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) correlation experimentation at fast magic-angle spinning (MAS), encompassing double-quantum-single-quantum (2Q-1Q) 1H NMR along with heteronuclear 13C{1H} and 31P{1H} correlation NMR experiments. The Pser and CaPser structures before and after refinements by DFT were validated against sets of NMR-derived effective 1H-1H, 1H-31P, and 1H-13C distances, which confirmed the improved accuracy of the refined structures. Each distance set was derived from one sole 2D NMR experiment applied to a powder without isotopic enrichment. The distances were extracted without invoking numerical spin-dynamics simulations or approximate phenomenological models. We highlight the advantages and limitations of the new distance-extraction procedure. Isotropic 1H, 13C, and 31P chemical shifts obtained by DFT calculations using the gauge including projector augmented wave (GIPAW) method agreed very well with the experimental results. We discuss the isotropic and anisotropic 13C and 31P chemical-shift parameters in relation to the previous literature, where most data on CaPser are reported herein for the first time.
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- Renny Mathew
- Department of Materials and Environmental
Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Materials and Environmental
Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Materials and Environmental
Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Gao Y, Saccuzzo EG, Hill SE, Huard DJE, Robang AS, Lieberman RL, Paravastu AK. Structural Arrangement within a Peptide Fibril Derived from the Glaucoma-Associated Myocilin Olfactomedin Domain. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:2886-2897. [PMID: 33683890 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c11460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Myocilin-associated glaucoma is a new addition to the list of diseases linked to protein misfolding and amyloid formation. Single point variants of the ∼257-residue myocilin olfactomedin domain (mOLF) lead to mutant myocilin aggregation. Here, we analyze the 12-residue peptide P1 (GAVVYSGSLYFQ), corresponding to residues 326-337 of mOLF, previously shown to form amyloid fibrils in vitro and in silico. We applied solid-state NMR structural measurements to test the hypothesis that P1 fibrils adopt one of three predicted structures. Our data are consistent with a U-shaped fibril arrangement for P1, one that is related to the U-shape predicted previously in silico. Our data are also consistent with an antiparallel fibril arrangement, likely driven by terminal electrostatics. Our proposed structural model is reminiscent of fibrils formed by the Aβ(1-40) Iowa mutant peptide, but with a different arrangement of molecular turn regions. Taken together, our results strengthen the connection between mOLF fibrils and the broader amylome and contribute to our understanding of the fundamental molecular interactions governing fibril architecture and stability.
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Solid-state NMR approaches to investigate large enzymes in complex with substrates and inhibitors. Biochem Soc Trans 2020; 49:131-144. [PMID: 33367567 DOI: 10.1042/bst20200099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Enzyme catalysis is omnipresent in the cell. The mechanisms by which highly evolved protein folds enable rapid and specific chemical transformation of substrates belong to the marvels of structural biology. Targeting of enzymes with inhibitors has immediate application in drug discovery, from chemotherapeutics over antibiotics to antivirals. NMR spectroscopy combines multiple assets for the investigation of enzyme function. The non-invasive technique can probe enzyme structure and dynamics and map interactions with substrates, cofactors and inhibitors at the atomic level. With experiments performed at close to native conditions, catalytic transformations can be monitored in real time, giving access to kinetic parameters. The power of NMR in the solid state, in contrast with solution, lies in the absence of fundamental size limitations, which is crucial for enzymes that are either membrane-embedded or assemble into large soluble complexes exceeding hundreds of kilodaltons in molecular weight. Here we review recent progress in solid-state NMR methodology, which has taken big leaps in the past years due to steady improvements in hardware design, notably magic angle spinning, and connect it to parallel biochemical advances that enable isotope labelling of increasingly complex enzymes. We first discuss general concepts and requirements of the method and then highlight the state-of-the-art in sample preparation, structure determination, dynamics and interaction studies. We focus on examples where solid-state NMR has been instrumental in elucidating enzyme mechanism, alone or in integrative studies.
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Vallet A, Favier A, Brutscher B, Schanda P. ssNMRlib: a comprehensive library and tool box for acquisition of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on Bruker spectrometers. MAGNETIC RESONANCE (GOTTINGEN, GERMANY) 2020; 1:331-345. [PMID: 37904819 PMCID: PMC10500710 DOI: 10.5194/mr-1-331-2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/01/2023]
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We introduce ssNMRlib, a comprehensive suite of pulse sequences and jython scripts for user-friendly solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data acquisition, parameter optimization and storage on Bruker spectrometers. ssNMRlib allows the straightforward setup of even highly complex multi-dimensional solid-state NMR experiments with a few clicks from an intuitive graphical interface directly from the Bruker Topspin acquisition software. ssNMRlib allows the setup of experiments in a magnetic-field-independent manner and thus facilitates the workflow in a multi-spectrometer setting with a centralized library. Safety checks furthermore assist the user in experiment setup. Currently hosting more than 140 1D to 4D experiments, primarily for biomolecular solid-state NMR, the library can be easily customized and new experiments are readily added as new templates. ssNMRlib is part of the previously introduced NMRlib library, which comprises many solution-NMR pulse sequences and macros.
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- Alicia Vallet
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 71, Avenue des Martyrs, 38044 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 71, Avenue des Martyrs, 38044 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 71, Avenue des Martyrs, 38044 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 71, Avenue des Martyrs, 38044 Grenoble, France
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Solid-state NMR spectroscopy for characterization of RNA and RNP complexes. Biochem Soc Trans 2020; 48:1077-1087. [PMID: 32573690 DOI: 10.1042/bst20191080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Revised: 05/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Ribonucleic acids are driving a multitude of biological processes where they act alone or in complex with proteins (ribonucleoproteins, RNP). To understand these processes both structural and mechanistic information about RNA is necessary. Due to their conformational plasticity RNA pose a challenge for mainstream structural biology methods. Solid-state NMR (ssNMR) spectroscopy is an emerging technique that can be applied to biomolecular complexes of any size in close-to-native conditions. This review outlines recent methodological developments in ssNMR for structural characterization of RNA and protein-RNA complexes and provides relevant examples.
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Wiegand T. A solid-state NMR tool box for the investigation of ATP-fueled protein engines. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 117:1-32. [PMID: 32471533 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2020.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Motor proteins are involved in a variety of cellular processes. Their main purpose is to convert the chemical energy released during adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis into mechanical work. In this review, solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) approaches are discussed allowing studies of structures, conformational events and dynamic features of motor proteins during a variety of enzymatic reactions. Solid-state NMR benefits from straightforward sample preparation based on sedimentation of the proteins directly into the Magic-Angle Spinning (MAS) rotor. Protein resonance assignment is the crucial and often time-limiting step in interpreting the wealth of information encoded in the NMR spectra. Herein, potentials, challenges and limitations in resonance assignment for large motor proteins are presented, focussing on both biochemical and spectroscopic approaches. This work highlights NMR tools available to study the action of the motor domain and its coupling to functional processes, as well as to identify protein-nucleotide interactions during events such as DNA replication. Arrested protein states of reaction coordinates such as ATP hydrolysis can be trapped for NMR studies by using stable, non-hydrolysable ATP analogues that mimic the physiological relevant states as accurately as possible. Recent advances in solid-state NMR techniques ranging from Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP), 31P-based heteronuclear correlation experiments, 1H-detected spectra at fast MAS frequencies >100 kHz to paramagnetic NMR are summarized and their applications to the bacterial DnaB helicase from Helicobacter pylori are discussed.
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- Thomas Wiegand
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Duong NT, Raran-Kurussi S, Nishiyama Y, Agarwal V. Quantitative 1H- 1H Distances in Protonated Solids by Frequency-Selective Recoupling at Fast Magic Angle Spinning NMR. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:5948-5954. [PMID: 30247041 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of protons in protonated solids is challenging. Fast magic angle spinning (MAS) and homonuclear decoupling schemes, in conjunction, with high magnetic fields have improved the proton resolution. However, experiments to quantitatively measure 1H-1H distances still remain elusive due to the dense proton-proton dipolar coupling network. A novel MAS solid-state NMR pulse sequence is proposed to selectively recouple and measure interproton distances in protonated samples. The phase-modulated sequence combined with a judicious choice of transmitter frequency is used to measure quantitative 1H-1H distances on the order of 3 Å in l-histidine·HCl·H2O, despite the presence of other strongly coupled protons. This method provides a major boost to NMR crystallography approaches for structural determination of pharmaceutical molecules by directly measuring 1H-1H distances. The band-selective nature of the sequence also enables observation of selective 1H-1H correlations (e.g., HN-HN/HN-Hα/ΗΝ-ΗMethyl) in peptides and proteins, which should serve as useful restraints in structure determination.
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- Nghia Tuan Duong
- RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center , RIKEN , Yokohama , Kanagawa 230-0045 , Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad , Sy. No. 36/P , Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107 , India
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- RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center , RIKEN , Yokohama , Kanagawa 230-0045 , Japan
- JEOL RESONANCE Inc. , Musashino, Akishima , Tokyo 196-8558 , Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad , Sy. No. 36/P , Gopanpally, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad 500 107 , India
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Roos M, Wang T, Shcherbakov AA, Hong M. Fast Magic-Angle-Spinning 19F Spin Exchange NMR for Determining Nanometer 19F- 19F Distances in Proteins and Pharmaceutical Compounds. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:2900-2911. [PMID: 29486126 PMCID: PMC6312665 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b00310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Internuclear distances measured using NMR provide crucial constraints of three-dimensional structures but are often restricted to about 5 Å due to the weakness of nuclear-spin dipolar couplings. For studying macromolecular assemblies in biology and materials science, distance constraints beyond 1 nm will be extremely valuable. Here we present an extensive and quantitative analysis of the feasibility of 19F spin exchange NMR for precise and robust measurements of interatomic distances up to 1.6 nm at a magnetic field of 14.1 T, under 20-40 kHz magic-angle spinning (MAS). The measured distances are comparable to those achievable from paramagnetic relaxation enhancement but have higher precision, which is better than ±1 Å for short distances and ±2 Å for long distances. For 19F spins with the same isotropic chemical shift but different anisotropic chemical shifts, intermediate MAS frequencies of 15-25 kHz without 1H irradiation accelerate spin exchange. For spectrally resolved 19F-19F spin exchange, 1H-19F dipolar recoupling significantly speeds up 19F-19F spin exchange. On the basis of data from five fluorinated synthetic, pharmaceutical, and biological compounds, we obtained two general curves for spin exchange between CF groups and between CF3 and CF groups. These curves allow 19F-19F distances to be extracted from the measured spin exchange rates after taking into account 19F chemical shifts. These results demonstrate the robustness of 19F spin exchange NMR for distance measurements in a wide range of biological and chemical systems.
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- Matthias Roos
- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 170 Albany Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 170 Albany Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 170 Albany Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 170 Albany Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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Yang Y, Wang S. RNA Characterization by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Chemistry 2018; 24:8698-8707. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Yufei Yang
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and Beijing NMR Center; Peking University; No.5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District Beijing 100871 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and Beijing NMR Center; Peking University; No.5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District Beijing 100871 P. R. China
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Ishii Y, Wickramasinghe A, Matsuda I, Endo Y, Ishii Y, Nishiyama Y, Nemoto T, Kamihara T. Progress in proton-detected solid-state NMR (SSNMR): Super-fast 2D SSNMR collection for nano-mole-scale proteins. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2018; 286:99-109. [PMID: 29223566 PMCID: PMC6387629 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Revised: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Proton-detected solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy has attracted much attention due to its excellent sensitivity and effectiveness in the analysis of trace amounts of amyloid proteins and other important biological systems. In this perspective article, we present the recent sensitivity limit of 1H-detected SSNMR using "ultra-fast" magic-angle spinning (MAS) at a spinning rate (νR) of 80-100 kHz. It was demonstrated that the high sensitivity of 1H-detected SSNMR at νR of 100 kHz and fast recycling using the paramagnetic-assisted condensed data collection (PACC) approach permitted "super-fast" collection of 1H-detected 2D protein SSNMR. A 1H-detected 2D 1H-15N correlation SSNMR spectrum for ∼27 nmol of a uniformly 13C- and 15N-labeled GB1 protein sample in microcrystalline form was acquired in only 9 s with 50% non-uniform sampling and short recycle delays of 100 ms. Additional data suggests that it is now feasible to detect as little as 1 nmol of the protein in 5.9 h by 1H-detected 2D 1H-15N SSNMR at a nominal signal-to-noise ratio of five. The demonstrated sensitivity is comparable to that of modern solution protein NMR. Moreover, this article summarizes the influence of ultra-fast MAS and 1H-detection on the spectral resolution and sensitivity of protein SSNMR. Recent progress in signal assignment and structural elucidation by 1H-detected protein SSNMR is outlined with both theoretical and experimental aspects.
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- Yoshitaka Ishii
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, United States; The RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST), RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, United States; The RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST), RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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- JEOL RESONANCE Inc., 3-1-2 Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan
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- JEOL RESONANCE Inc., 3-1-2 Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan
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- JEOL RESONANCE Inc., 3-1-2 Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan; RIKEN CLST-JEOL Collaboration Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- JEOL RESONANCE Inc., 3-1-2 Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan
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- The RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST), RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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Habenstein B, Loquet A. Solid-state NMR: An emerging technique in structural biology of self-assemblies. Biophys Chem 2016; 210:14-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2015.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2015] [Accepted: 07/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Kulminskaya N, Vasa SK, Giller K, Becker S, Kwan A, Sunde M, Linser R. Access to side-chain carbon information in deuterated solids under fast MAS through non-rotor-synchronized mixing. Chem Commun (Camb) 2016; 52:268-71. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cc07345f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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MOCCA provides comprehensive solid-state NMR side chain carbon correlations despite perdeuteration and fast sample rotation, thereby inducing minimal power dissipation.
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- Natalia Kulminskaya
- Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Department NMR-Based Structural Biology
- 37077 Göttingen
- Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Department NMR-Based Structural Biology
- 37077 Göttingen
- Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Department NMR-Based Structural Biology
- 37077 Göttingen
- Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Department NMR-Based Structural Biology
- 37077 Göttingen
- Germany
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- School of Medical Sciences and School of Molecular Bioscience
- University of Sydney
- Sydney
- Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences and School of Molecular Bioscience
- University of Sydney
- Sydney
- Australia
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Department NMR-Based Structural Biology
- 37077 Göttingen
- Germany
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Rovó P, Grohe K, Giller K, Becker S, Linser R. Proton Transverse Relaxation as a Sensitive Probe for Structure Determination in Solid Proteins. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:3791-6. [PMID: 26359781 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been successfully applied to elucidate the atomic-resolution structures of insoluble proteins. The major bottleneck is the difficulty to obtain valuable long-distance structural information. Here, we propose the use of distance restraints as long as 32 Å, obtained from the quantification of transverse proton relaxation induced by a methanethiosulfonate spin label (MTSL). Combined with dipolar proton-proton distance restraints, this method allows us to obtain protein structures with excellent precision from single spin-labeled 1 mg protein samples using fast magic angle spinning.
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- Petra Rovó
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
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Böckmann A, Ernst M, Meier BH. Spinning proteins, the faster, the better? JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2015; 253:71-9. [PMID: 25797006 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Revised: 01/09/2015] [Accepted: 01/18/2015] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Magic-angle spinning (MAS) is a technique that is a prerequisite for high-resolution solid-state NMR spectroscopy of proteins and other biomolecules. Recently, the 100 kHz limit for the rotation frequency has been broken, arguably making MAS rotors the man-made objects with the highest rotation frequency. This development is expected to have a significant impact on biomolecular NMR as it facilitates proton detection, which allows to partially compensate the loss in overall sensitivity associated with the small sample amounts that fit into MAS rotors with less than 1 mm outer diameter. Under these conditions, the mass-normalized sensitivity of a small rotor becomes much higher than that of larger-volume rotor.
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- Anja Böckmann
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, BMSSI, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon 1, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, France.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Fasshuber HK, Demers JP, Chevelkov V, Giller K, Becker S, Lange A. Specific 13C labeling of leucine, valine and isoleucine methyl groups for unambiguous detection of long-range restraints in protein solid-state NMR studies. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2015; 252:10-9. [PMID: 25625825 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2014.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2014] [Revised: 12/10/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Here we present an isotopic labeling strategy to easily obtain unambiguous long-range distance restraints in protein solid-state NMR studies. The method is based on the inclusion of two biosynthetic precursors in the bacterial growth medium, α-ketoisovalerate and α-ketobutyrate, leading to the production of leucine, valine and isoleucine residues that are exclusively (13)C labeled on methyl groups. The resulting spectral simplification facilitates the collection of distance restraints, the verification of carbon chemical shift assignments and the measurement of methyl group dynamics. This approach is demonstrated on the type-three secretion system needle of Shigella flexneri, where 49 methyl-methyl and methyl-nitrogen distance restraints including 10 unambiguous long-range distance restraints could be collected. By combining this labeling scheme with ultra-fast MAS and proton detection, the assignment of methyl proton chemical shifts was achieved.
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- Hannes Klaus Fasshuber
- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Department of Molecular Biophysics, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Department of Molecular Biophysics, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Department of Molecular Biophysics, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Department of Molecular Biophysics, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany; Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstr. 110, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
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Mollica G, Dekhil M, Ziarelli F, Thureau P, Viel S. Probing crystal packing of uniformly (13)C-enriched powder samples using homonuclear dipolar coupling measurements. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2015; 65:114-121. [PMID: 25595367 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2014.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2014] [Revised: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The relationship between the crystal packing of powder samples and long-range (13)C-(13)C homonuclear dipolar couplings is presented and illustrated for the case of uniformly (13)C-enriched L-alanine and L-histidine·HCl·H2O. Dipolar coupling measurement is based on the partial reintroduction of dipolar interactions by spinning the sample slightly off-magic-angle, while the coupling of interest for a given spin pair is isolated with a frequency-selective pulse. A cost function is used to correlate the so-derived dipolar couplings to trial crystal structures of the samples under study. This procedure allowed for the investigation of the l-alanine space group and L-histidine·HCl·H2O space group and unit-cell parameters.
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- Giulia Mollica
- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ICR UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ICR UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Centrale Marseille, CNRS, Fédération des sciences chimiques de Marseille FR 1739, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ICR UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France.
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ICR UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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Asami S, Porter JR, Lange OF, Reif B. Access to Cα backbone dynamics of biological solids by 13C T1 relaxation and molecular dynamics simulation. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:1094-100. [PMID: 25564702 DOI: 10.1021/ja509367q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We introduce a labeling scheme for magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR that is based on deuteration in combination with dilution of the carbon spin system. The labeling strategy achieves spectral editing by simplification of the HαCα and aliphatic side chain spectral region. A reduction in both proton and carbon spin density in combination with fast spinning (≥50 kHz) is essential to retrieve artifact-free (13)C-R1 relaxation data for aliphatic carbons. We obtain good agreement between the NMR experimental data and order parameters extracted from a molecular dynamics (MD) trajectory, which indicates that carbon based relaxation parameters can yield complementary information on protein backbone as well as side chain dynamics.
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- Sam Asami
- 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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β-Helical architecture of cytoskeletal bactofilin filaments revealed by solid-state NMR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 112:E127-36. [PMID: 25550503 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418450112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bactofilins are a widespread class of bacterial filament-forming proteins, which serve as cytoskeletal scaffolds in various cellular pathways. They are characterized by a conserved architecture, featuring a central conserved domain (DUF583) that is flanked by variable terminal regions. Here, we present a detailed investigation of bactofilin filaments from Caulobacter crescentus by high-resolution solid-state NMR spectroscopy. De novo sequential resonance assignments were obtained for residues Ala39 to Phe137, spanning the conserved DUF583 domain. Analysis of the secondary chemical shifts shows that this core region adopts predominantly β-sheet secondary structure. Mutational studies of conserved hydrophobic residues located in the identified β-strand segments suggest that bactofilin folding and polymerization is mediated by an extensive and redundant network of hydrophobic interactions, consistent with the high intrinsic stability of bactofilin polymers. Transmission electron microscopy revealed a propensity of bactofilin to form filament bundles as well as sheet-like, 2D crystalline assemblies, which may represent the supramolecular arrangement of bactofilin in the native context. Based on the diffraction pattern of these 2D crystalline assemblies, scanning transmission electron microscopy measurements of the mass per length of BacA filaments, and the distribution of β-strand segments identified by solid-state NMR, we propose that the DUF583 domain adopts a β-helical architecture, in which 18 β-strand segments are arranged in six consecutive windings of a β-helix.
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Jayasubba Reddy Y, Agarwal V, Lesage A, Emsley L, Ramanathan KV. Heteronuclear proton double quantum-carbon single quantum scalar correlation in solids. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2014; 245:31-37. [PMID: 24921949 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2014.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2014] [Revised: 05/01/2014] [Accepted: 05/05/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A new NMR experiment that exploits the advantages of proton double quantum (DQ) NMR through a proton DQ-carbon single quantum (SQ) correlation experiment in the solid state is proposed. Analogous to the previously proposed 2D (1)H (DQ)-(13)C refocused INEPT experiment (Webber et al., 2010), the correlation between (1)H and (13)C is achieved through scalar coupling evolution, while the double quantum coherence among protons is generated through dipolar couplings. However, the new experiment relies on (13)C transverse coherence for scalar transfer. The new experiment dubbed MAS-J-(1)H (DQ)-(13)C-HMQC, is particularly suited for unlabeled molecules and can provide higher sensitivity than its INEPT counterpart. The experiment is applied to four different samples.
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- Y Jayasubba Reddy
- NMR Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India; Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- NMR Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
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- Centre de RMN à Très Hauts Champs, Institut des Sciences Analytiques (CNRS/ENS Lyon/UCB Lyon 1), Université de Lyon, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Centre de RMN à Très Hauts Champs, Institut des Sciences Analytiques (CNRS/ENS Lyon/UCB Lyon 1), Université de Lyon, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- NMR Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
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In the stationary, aligned samples used in oriented sample (OS) solid-state NMR, (1)H-(1)H homonuclear dipolar couplings are not attenuated as they are in magic angle spinning solid-state NMR; consequently, they are available for participation in dipolar coupling-based spin-exchange processes. Here we describe analytically the pathways of (15)N-(15)N spin-exchange mediated by (1)H-(1)H homonuclear dipolar couplings. The mixed-order proton-relay mechanism can be differentiated from the third spin assisted recoupling mechanism by setting the (1)H to an off-resonance frequency so that it is at the "magic angle" during the spin-exchange interval in the experiment, since the "magic angle" irradiation nearly quenches the former but only slightly attenuates the latter. Experimental spectra from a single crystal of N-acetyl leucine confirm that this proton-relay mechanism plays the dominant role in (15)N-(15)N dilute-spin-exchange in OS solid-state NMR in crystalline samples. Remarkably, the "forbidden" spin-exchange condition under "magic angle" irradiation results in (15)N-(15)N cross-peaks intensities that are comparable to those observed with on-resonance irradiation in applications to proteins. The mechanism of the proton relay in dilute-spin-exchange is crucial for the design of polarization transfer experiments.
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- George J Lu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0307, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0307, USA
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Goobes G. Past and Future Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Studies at the Convergence Point between Biology and Materials Research. Isr J Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201300113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Weingarth M, van der Cruijsen EAW, Ostmeyer J, Lievestro S, Roux B, Baldus M. Quantitative analysis of the water occupancy around the selectivity filter of a K+ channel in different gating modes. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:2000-7. [PMID: 24410583 DOI: 10.1021/ja411450y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Recovery in K(+) channels, that is, the transition from the inactivated nonconductive selectivity filter conformation toward the conductive conformation, occurs on a time scale of the order of seconds, which is astonishingly long, given that the structural differences among the filter conformations are faint (<1 Å). Computational studies and electrophysiological measurements suggested that buried water molecules bound behind the selectivity filter are at the origin of the slowness of recovery in K(+) channels. Using a combination of solid-state NMR spectroscopy (ssNMR) and long molecular dynamics simulations, we sketch a high-resolution map of the spatial and temporal distribution of water behind the selectivity filter of a membrane-embedded K(+) channel in two different gating modes. Our study demonstrates that buried water molecules with long residence times are spread all along the rear of the inactivated filter, which explains the recovery kinetics. In contrast, the same region of the structure appears to be dewetted when the selectivity filter is in the conductive state. Using proton-detected ssNMR on fully protonated channels, we demonstrate the presence of a pathway that allows for the interchange of buried and bulk water, as required for a functional influence of buried water on recovery and slow inactivation. Furthermore, we provide direct experimental evidence for the presence of additional ordered water molecules that surround the filter and that are modulated by the channel's gating mode.
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- Markus Weingarth
- NMR Spectroscopy, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University , 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Matthes D, Daebel V, Meyenberg K, Riedel D, Heim G, Diederichsen U, Lange A, de Groot BL. Spontaneous Aggregation of the Insulin-Derived Steric Zipper Peptide VEALYL Results in Different Aggregation Forms with Common Features. J Mol Biol 2014; 426:362-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Revised: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 10/15/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Agarwal V, Sardo M, Scholz I, Böckmann A, Ernst M, Meier BH. PAIN with and without PAR: variants for third-spin assisted heteronuclear polarization transfer. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2013; 56:365-377. [PMID: 23807391 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-013-9756-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2013] [Accepted: 06/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In this article, we describe third-spin assisted heteronuclear recoupling experiments, which play an increasingly important role in measuring long-range heteronuclear couplings, in particular (15)N-(13)C, in proteins. In the proton-assisted insensitive nuclei cross polarization (PAIN-CP) experiment (de Paëpe et al. in J Chem Phys 134:095101, 2011), heteronuclear polarization transfer is always accompanied by homonuclear transfer of the proton-assisted recoupling (PAR) type. We present a phase-alternating experiment that promotes heteronuclear (e.g. (15)N → (13)C) polarization transfer while simultaneously minimizing homonuclear (e.g.(13)C → (13)C) transfer (PAIN without PAR). This minimization of homonuclear polarization transfer is based on the principle of the resonant second-order transfer (RESORT) recoupling scheme where the passive proton spins are irradiated by a phase-alternating sequence and the modulation frequency is matched to an integer multiple of the spinning frequency. The similarities and differences between the PAIN-CP and this het-RESORT experiment are discussed here.
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- Vipin Agarwal
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Shi Y, van Steenbergen MJ, Teunissen EA, Novo L, Gradmann S, Baldus M, van Nostrum CF, Hennink WE. Π–Π Stacking Increases the Stability and Loading Capacity of Thermosensitive Polymeric Micelles for Chemotherapeutic Drugs. Biomacromolecules 2013; 14:1826-37. [DOI: 10.1021/bm400234c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Yang Shi
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute
for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, P.O. Box 80082,
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute
for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, P.O. Box 80082,
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute
for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, P.O. Box 80082,
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute
for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, P.O. Box 80082,
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Bijvoet Center for
Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Bijvoet Center for
Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute
for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, P.O. Box 80082,
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute
for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, P.O. Box 80082,
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Schneider R, Odronitz F, Hammesfahr B, Hellkamp M, Kollmar M. Peakr: simulating solid-state NMR spectra of proteins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 29:1134-40. [PMID: 23493322 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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MOTIVATION When analyzing solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of proteins, assignment of resonances to nuclei and derivation of restraints for 3D structure calculations are challenging and time-consuming processes. Simulated spectra that have been calculated based on, for example, chemical shift predictions and structural models can be of considerable help. Existing solutions are typically limited in the type of experiment they can consider and difficult to adapt to different settings. RESULTS Here, we present Peakr, a software to simulate solid-state NMR spectra of proteins. It can generate simulated spectra based on numerous common types of internuclear correlations relevant for assignment and structure elucidation, can compare simulated and experimental spectra and produces lists and visualizations useful for analyzing measured spectra. Compared with other solutions, it is fast, versatile and user friendly. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Peakr is maintained under the GPL license and can be accessed at http://www.peakr.org. The source code can be obtained on request from the authors.
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- Robert Schneider
- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Qiang W, Tycko R. Zero-quantum stochastic dipolar recoupling in solid state nuclear magnetic resonance. J Chem Phys 2013; 137:104201. [PMID: 22979851 DOI: 10.1063/1.4749258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present the theoretical description and experimental demonstration of a zero-quantum stochastic dipolar recoupling (ZQ-SDR) technique for solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of (13)C-labeled molecules, including proteins, under magic-angle spinning (MAS). The ZQ-SDR technique combines zero-quantum recoupling pulse sequence blocks with randomly varying chemical shift precession periods to create randomly amplitude- and phase-modulated effective homonuclear magnetic dipole-dipole couplings. To a good approximation, couplings between different (13)C spin pairs become uncorrelated under ZQ-SDR, leading to spin dynamics (averaged over many repetitions of the ZQ-SDR sequence) that are fully described by an orientation-dependent N × N polarization transfer rate matrix for an N-spin system, with rates that are inversely proportional to the sixth power of internuclear distances. Suppression of polarization transfers due to non-commutivity of pairwise couplings (i.e., dipolar truncation) does not occur under ZQ-SDR, as we show both analytically and numerically. Experimental demonstrations are reported for uniformly (13)C-labeled L-valine powder (at 14.1 T and 28.00 kHz MAS), uniformly (13)C-labeled protein GB1 in microcrystalline form (at 17.6 T and 40.00 kHz MAS), and partially labeled (13)C-labeled protein GB1 (at 14.1 T and 40.00 kHz MAS). The experimental results verify that spin dynamics under ZQ-SDR are described accurately by rate matrices and suggest the utility of ZQ-SDR in structural studies of (13)C-labeled solids.
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- Wei Qiang
- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, USA
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Gradmann S, Ader C, Heinrich I, Nand D, Dittmann M, Cukkemane A, van Dijk M, Bonvin AMJJ, Engelhard M, Baldus M. Rapid prediction of multi-dimensional NMR data sets. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2012; 54:377-387. [PMID: 23143278 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-012-9681-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2012] [Accepted: 10/31/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We present a computational environment for Fast Analysis of multidimensional NMR DAta Sets (FANDAS) that allows assembling multidimensional data sets from a variety of input parameters and facilitates comparing and modifying such "in silico" data sets during the various stages of the NMR data analysis. The input parameters can vary from (partial) NMR assignments directly obtained from experiments to values retrieved from in silico prediction programs. The resulting predicted data sets enable a rapid evaluation of sample labeling in light of spectral resolution and structural content, using standard NMR software such as Sparky. In addition, direct comparison to experimental data sets can be used to validate NMR assignments, distinguish different molecular components, refine structural models or other parameters derived from NMR data. The method is demonstrated in the context of solid-state NMR data obtained for the cyclic nucleotide binding domain of a bacterial cyclic nucleotide-gated channel and on membrane-embedded sensory rhodopsin II. FANDAS is freely available as web portal under WeNMR ( http://www.wenmr.eu/services/FANDAS ).
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- Sabine Gradmann
- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Shen M, Hu B, Lafon O, Trébosc J, Chen Q, Amoureux JP. Broadband finite-pulse radio-frequency-driven recoupling (fp-RFDR) with (XY8)4(1) super-cycling for homo-nuclear correlations in very high magnetic fields at fast and ultra-fast MAS frequencies. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2012; 223:107-119. [PMID: 22985981 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2012] [Revised: 07/10/2012] [Accepted: 07/16/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We demonstrate that inter-residue (13)C-(13)C proximities (of about 380 pm) in uniformly (13)C-labeled proteins can be probed by applying robust first-order recoupling during several milliseconds in single-quantum single-quantum dipolar homo-nuclear correlation (SQ-SQ D-HOMCOR) 2D experiments. We show that the intensity of medium-range homo-nuclear correlations in these experiments is enhanced using broadband first-order finite-pulse radio-frequency-driven recoupling (fp-RFDR) NMR sequence with a nested (XY8)4(1) super-cycling. The robustness and the efficiency of the fp-RFDR-(XY8)4(1) method is demonstrated at high magnetic field (21.1T) and high Magic-Angle Spinning (MAS) speeds (up to 60 kHz). The introduced super-cycling, formed by combining phase inversion and a global four-quantum phase cycle, improves the robustness of fp-RFDR to (i) chemical shift anisotropy (CSA), (ii) spread in isotropic chemical shifts, (iii) rf-inhomogeneity and (iv) hetero-nuclear dipolar couplings for long recoupling times. We show that fp-RFDR-(XY8)4(1) is efficient sans (1)H decoupling, which is beneficial for temperature-sensitive biomolecules. The efficiency and the robustness of fp-RFDR-(XY8)4(1) is investigated by spin dynamics numerical simulations as well as solid-state NMR experiments on [U-(13)C]-L-histidine·HCl, a tetra-peptide (Fmoc-[U-(13)C,(15)N]-Val-[U-(13)C,(15)N]-Ala-[U-(13)C,(15)N]-Phe-Gly-t-Boc) and Al(PO(3))(3).
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- Ming Shen
- Physics Department & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Hu B, Trébosc J, Lafon O, Chen Q, Masuda Y, Takegoshi K, Amoureux JP. Very-Long-Distance Correlations in Proteins Revealed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Chemphyschem 2012; 13:3585-8. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201200548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Li S, Su Y, Hong M. Intramolecular 1H-13C distance measurement in uniformly 13C, 15N labeled peptides by solid-state NMR. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2012; 45-46:51-58. [PMID: 22749432 PMCID: PMC3414644 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2012] [Revised: 04/29/2012] [Accepted: 06/05/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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A (1)H-(13)C frequency-selective REDOR (FS-REDOR) experiment is developed for measuring intramolecular (1)H-(13)C distances in uniformly (13)C, (15)N-labeled molecules. Theory and simulations show that the experiment removes the interfering homonuclear (1)H-(1)H, (13)C-(13)C and heteronuclear (1)H-(15)N, (13)C-(15)N dipolar interactions while retaining the desired heteronuclear (1)H-(13)C dipolar interaction. Our results indicate that this technique, combined with the numerical fitting, can be used to measure a (1)H-(13)C distance up to 5Å. We also demonstrate that the measured intramolecular (1)H-(13)C distances are useful to determine dihedral angles in proteins.
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- Shenhui Li
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- 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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Giffard M, Hediger S, Lewandowski JR, Bardet M, Simorre JP, Griffin RG, De Paëpe G. Compensated second-order recoupling: application to third spin assisted recoupling. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:7246-55. [PMID: 22513727 PMCID: PMC4440590 DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40406k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We consider the effect of phase shifts in the context of second-order recoupling techniques in solid-state NMR. Notably we highlight conditions leading to significant improvements for the Third Spin Assisted Recoupling (TSAR) mechanism and demonstrate the benefits of resulting techniques for detecting long-distance transfer in biomolecular systems. The modified pulse sequences of PAR and PAIN-CP, Phase-Shifted Proton Assisted Recoupling (AH-PS-PAR) and Phase-Shifted Proton-Assisted Insensitive Nuclei Cross Polarization (ABH-PS-PAIN-CP), still rely on cross terms between heteronuclear dipolar couplings involving assisting protons that mediate zero-quantum polarization transfer between low-γ nuclei ((13)C-(13)C, (15)N-(15)N, (15)N-(13)C polarization transfer). Using Average Hamiltonian Theory we show that phase inversion compensates off-resonance contributions and yields improved polarization transfer as well as substantial broadening of the matching conditions. PS-TSAR greatly improves on the standard TSAR based methods because it alleviates their sensitivity to precise RF settings which significantly enhances robustness of the experiments. We demonstrate these new methods on a 19.6 kDa protein (U-[(15)N, (13)C]-YajG) at high magnetic fields (up to 900 MHz (1)H frequency) and fast sample spinning (up to 65 kHz MAS frequency).
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- Mathilde Giffard
- Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR-E3 (CEA/UJF) and CNRS, CEA/DSM/INAC–38054, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR-E3 (CEA/UJF) and CNRS, CEA/DSM/INAC–38054, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR-E3 (CEA/UJF) and CNRS, CEA/DSM/INAC–38054, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, UMR 5075 (CEA/CNRS/UJF), 38027 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR-E3 (CEA/UJF) and CNRS, CEA/DSM/INAC–38054, Grenoble, France
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Ganapathy S, Oostergetel GT, Reus M, Tsukatani Y, Gomez Maqueo Chew A, Buda F, Bryant DA, Holzwarth AR, de Groot HJM. Structural variability in wild-type and bchQ bchR mutant chlorosomes of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Biochemistry 2012; 51:4488-98. [PMID: 22577986 DOI: 10.1021/bi201817x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The self-aggregated state of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c molecules in chlorosomes belonging to a bchQ bchR mutant of the green sulfur bacteria Chlorobaculum tepidum, which mostly produces a single 17(2)-farnesyl-(R)-[8-ethyl,12-methyl]BChl c homologue, was characterized by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and high-resolution electron microscopy. A nearly complete (1)H and (13)C chemical shift assignment was obtained from well-resolved homonuclear (13)C-(13)C and heteronuclear (1)H-(13)C NMR data sets collected from (13)C-enriched chlorosome preparations. Pronounced doubling (1:1) of specific (13)C and (1)H resonances revealed the presence of two distinct and nonequivalent BChl c components, attributed to all syn- and all anti-coordinated parallel stacks, depending on the rotation of the macrocycle with respect to the 3(1)-methyl group. Steric hindrance from the 20-methyl functionality induces structural differences between the syn and anti forms. A weak but significant and reproducible reflection at 1/0.69 nm(-1) in the direction perpendicular to the curvature of cylindrical segments observed with electron microscopy also suggests parallel stacking of BChl c molecules, though the observed lamellar spacing of 2.4 nm suggests weaker packing than for wild-type chlorosomes. We propose that relaxation of the pseudosymmetry observed for the wild type and a related BChl d mutant leads to extended domains of alternating syn and anti stacks in the bchQ bchR chlorosomes. Domains can be joined to form cylinders by helical syn-anti transition trajectories. The phase separation in domains on the cylindrical surface represents a basic mechanism for establishing suprastructural heterogeneity in an otherwise uniform supramolecular scaffolding framework that is well-ordered at the molecular level.
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- Swapna Ganapathy
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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De Paëpe G. Dipolar Recoupling in Magic Angle Spinning Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2012; 63:661-84. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032511-143726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Gaël De Paëpe
- Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR-E 3 CEA/UJF-Grenoble 1, Institut Nanosciences et Cryogénie, F-38054 Grenoble, France;
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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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Jaroniec CP. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance structural studies of proteins using paramagnetic probes. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2012; 43-44:1-13. [PMID: 22464402 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2012] [Revised: 02/27/2012] [Accepted: 02/28/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Determination of three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules by magic-angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR spectroscopy is hindered by the paucity of nuclear dipolar coupling-based restraints corresponding to distances exceeding 5 Å. Recent MAS NMR studies of uniformly (13)C,(15)N-enriched proteins containing paramagnetic centers have demonstrated the measurements of site-specific nuclear pseudocontact shifts and spin relaxation enhancements, which report on electron-nucleus distances up to ~20 Å. These studies pave the way for the application of such long-distance paramagnetic restraints to protein structure elucidation and analysis of protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions in the solid phase. Paramagnetic species also facilitate the rapid acquisition of high resolution and sensitivity multidimensional solid-state NMR spectra of biomacromolecules using condensed data collection schemes, and characterization of solvent-accessible surfaces of peptides and proteins. In this review we discuss some of the latest applications of magic-angle spinning NMR spectroscopy in conjunction with paramagnetic probes to the structural studies of proteins in the solid state.
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- Christopher P Jaroniec
- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Carlomagno T. NMR in natural products: understanding conformation, configuration and receptor interactions. Nat Prod Rep 2012; 29:536-54. [PMID: 22456471 DOI: 10.1039/c2np00098a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Covering: up to 2011. Natural products are of tremendous importance in both traditional and modern medicine. For medicinal chemistry natural products represent a challenge, as their chemical synthesis and modification are complex processes, which require many, often stereo-selective, synthetic steps. A prerequisite for the design of analogs of natural products, with more accessible synthetic routes, is the availability of their bioactive conformation. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography are the two techniques of choice to investigate the structure of natural products. In this review, I describe the most recent advances in NMR to study the conformation of natural products either free in solution or bound to their cellular receptors. In chapter 2, I focus on the use of residual dipolar couplings (RDC). On the basis of a few examples, I discuss the benefit of complementing classical NMR parameters, such as NOEs and scalar couplings, with dipolar couplings to simultaneously determine both the conformation and the relative configuration of natural products in solution. Chapter 3 is dedicated to the study of the structure of natural products in complex with their cellular receptors and is further divided in two sections. In the first section, I describe two solution-state NMR methodologies to investigate the binding mode of low-affinity ligands to macromolecular receptors. The first approach, INPHARMA (Interligand Noes for PHArmacophore Mapping), is based on the observation of interligand NOEs between two small molecules binding competitively to a common receptor. INPHARMA reveals the relative binding mode of the two ligands, thus allowing ligand superimposition. The second approach is based on paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) of ligand resonances in the presence of a receptor containing a paramagnetic center. In the second section, I focus on solid-state NMR spectroscopy as a tool to access the bioactive conformation of natural products in complex with macromolecular receptors.
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- Teresa Carlomagno
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg
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Veshtort M, Griffin RG. Proton-driven spin diffusion in rotating solids via reversible and irreversible quantum dynamics. J Chem Phys 2012; 135:134509. [PMID: 21992326 DOI: 10.1063/1.3635374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Proton-driven spin diffusion (PDSD) experiments in rotating solids have received a great deal of attention as a potential source of distance constraints in large biomolecules. However, the quantitative relationship between the molecular structure and observed spin diffusion has remained obscure due to the lack of an accurate theoretical description of the spin dynamics in these experiments. We start with presenting a detailed relaxation theory of PDSD in rotating solids that provides such a description. The theory applies to both conventional and radio-frequency-assisted PDSD experiments and extends to the non-Markovian regime to include such phenomena as rotational resonance (R(2)). The basic kinetic equation of the theory in the non-Markovian regime has the form of a memory function equation, with the role of the memory function played by the correlation function. The key assumption used in the derivation of this equation expresses the intuitive notion of the irreversible dissipation of coherences in macroscopic systems. Accurate expressions for the correlation functions and for the spin diffusion constants are given. The theory predicts that the spin diffusion constants governing the multi-site PDSD can be approximated by the constants observed in the two-site diffusion. Direct numerical simulations of PDSD dynamics via reversible Liouville-von Neumann equation are presented to support and compliment the theory. Remarkably, an exponential decay of the difference magnetization can be observed in such simulations in systems consisting of only 12 spins. This is a unique example of a real physical system whose typically macroscopic and apparently irreversible behavior can be traced via reversible microscopic dynamics. An accurate value for the spin diffusion constant can be usually obtained through direct simulations of PDSD in systems consisting of two (13)C nuclei and about ten (1)H nuclei from their nearest environment. Spin diffusion constants computed by this method are in excellent agreement with the spin diffusion constants obtained through equations given by the relaxation theory of PDSD. The constants resulting from these two approaches were also in excellent agreement with the results of 2D rotary resonance recoupling proton-driven spin diffusion (R(3)-PDSD) experiments performed in three model compounds, where magnetization exchange occurred over distances up to 4.9 Å. With the methodology presented, highly accurate internuclear distances can be extracted from such data. Relayed transfer of magnetization between distant nuclei appears to be the main (and apparently resolvable) source of uncertainty in such measurements. The non-Markovian kinetic equation was applied to the analysis of the R(2) spin dynamics. The conventional semi-phenomenological treatment of relxation in R(2) has been shown to be equivalent to the assumption of the Lorentzian spectral density function in the relaxatoin theory of PDSD. As this assumption is a poor approximation in real physical systems, the conventional R(2) treatment is likely to carry a significant model error that has not been recognized previously. The relaxation theory of PDSD appears to provide an accurate, parameter-free alternative. Predictions of this theory agreed well with the full quantum mechanical simulations of the R(2) dynamics in the few simple model systems we considered.
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- Mikhail Veshtort
- Department of Chemistry and Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Nand D, Cukkemane A, Becker S, Baldus M. Fractional deuteration applied to biomolecular solid-state NMR spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2012; 52:91-101. [PMID: 22105305 PMCID: PMC3277825 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-011-9585-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 10/29/2011] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance can provide detailed insight into structural and dynamical aspects of complex biomolecules. With increasing molecular size, advanced approaches for spectral simplification and the detection of medium to long-range contacts become of critical relevance. We have analyzed the protonation pattern of a membrane-embedded ion channel that was obtained from bacterial expression using protonated precursors and D(2)O medium. We find an overall reduction of 50% in protein protonation. High levels of deuteration at H(α) and H(β) positions reduce spectral congestion in ((1)H,(13)C,(15)N) correlation experiments and generate a transfer profile in longitudinal mixing schemes that can be tuned to specific resonance frequencies. At the same time, residual protons are predominantly found at amino-acid side-chain positions enhancing the prospects for obtaining side-chain resonance assignments and for detecting medium to long-range contacts. Fractional deuteration thus provides a powerful means to aid the structural analysis of complex biomolecules by solid-state NMR.
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- Deepak Nand
- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of NMR-based Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Takeda K, Kusakabe Y, Noda Y, Fukuchi M, Takegoshi K. Homo- and heteronuclear two-dimensional covariance solid-state NMR spectroscopy with a dual-receiver system. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:9715-21. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41191a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Structural characterization of polyglutamine fibrils by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. J Mol Biol 2011; 412:121-36. [PMID: 21763317 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.06.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2010] [Revised: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 06/27/2011] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Protein aggregation via polyglutamine stretches occurs in a number of severe neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease. We have investigated fibrillar aggregates of polyglutamine peptides below, at, and above the toxicity limit of around 37 glutamine residues using solid-state NMR and electron microscopy. Experimental data are consistent with a dry fibril core of at least 70-80 Å in width for all constructs. Solid-state NMR dipolar correlation experiments reveal a largely β-strand character of all samples and point to tight interdigitation of hydrogen-bonded glutamine side chains from different sheets. Two approximately equally frequent populations of glutamine residues with distinct sets of chemical shifts are found, consistent with local backbone dihedral angles compensating for β-strand twist or with two distinct sets of side-chain conformations. Peptides comprising 15 glutamine residues are present as single extended β-strands. Data obtained for longer constructs are most compatible with a superpleated arrangement with individual molecules contributing β-strands to more than one sheet and an antiparallel assembly of strands within β-sheets.
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Boettcher JM, Davis-Harrison RL, Clay MC, Nieuwkoop AJ, Ohkubo YZ, Tajkhorshid E, Morrissey JH, Rienstra CM. Atomic view of calcium-induced clustering of phosphatidylserine in mixed lipid bilayers. Biochemistry 2011; 50:2264-73. [PMID: 21294564 PMCID: PMC3069658 DOI: 10.1021/bi1013694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Membranes play key regulatory roles in biological processes, with bilayer composition exerting marked effects on binding affinities and catalytic activities of a number of membrane-associated proteins. In particular, proteins involved in diverse processes such as vesicle fusion, intracellular signaling cascades, and blood coagulation interact specifically with anionic lipids such as phosphatidylserine (PS) in the presence of Ca(2+) ions. While Ca(2+) is suspected to induce PS clustering in mixed phospholipid bilayers, the detailed structural effects of this ion on anionic lipids are not established. In this study, combining magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR (SSNMR) measurements of isotopically labeled serine headgroups in mixed lipid bilayers with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of PS lipid bilayers in the presence of different counterions, we provide site-resolved insights into the effects of Ca(2+) on the structure and dynamics of lipid bilayers. Ca(2+)-induced conformational changes of PS in mixed bilayers are observed in both liposomes and Nanodiscs, a nanoscale membrane mimetic of bilayer patches. Site-resolved multidimensional correlation SSNMR spectra of bilayers containing (13)C,(15)N-labeled PS demonstrate that Ca(2+) ions promote two major PS headgroup conformations, which are well resolved in two-dimensional (13)C-(13)C, (15)N-(13)C, and (31)P-(13)C spectra. The results of MD simulations performed on PS lipid bilayers in the presence or absence of Ca(2+) provide an atomic view of the conformational effects underlying the observed spectra.
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- John M. Boettcher
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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Hou G, Yan S, Sun S, Han Y, Byeon IJL, Ahn J, Concel J, Samoson A, Gronenborn AM, Polenova T. Spin diffusion driven by R-symmetry sequences: applications to homonuclear correlation spectroscopy in MAS NMR of biological and organic solids. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:3943-53. [PMID: 21361320 PMCID: PMC3148607 DOI: 10.1021/ja108650x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
We present a family of homonuclear (13)C-(13)C magic angle spinning spin diffusion experiments, based on R2(n)(v) (n = 1 and 2, v = 1 and 2) symmetry sequences. These experiments are well suited for (13)C-(13)C correlation spectroscopy in biological and organic systems and are especially advantageous at very fast MAS conditions, where conventional PDSD and DARR experiments fail. At very fast MAS frequencies the R2(1)(1), R2(2)(1), and R2(2)(2) sequences result in excellent quality correlation spectra both in model compounds and in proteins. Under these conditions, individual R2(n)(v) display different polarization transfer efficiency dependencies on isotropic chemical shift differences: R2(2)(1) recouples efficiently both small and large chemical shift differences (in proteins these correspond to aliphatic-to-aliphatic and carbonyl-to-aliphatic correlations, respectively), while R2(1)(1) and R2(2)(2) exhibit the maximum recoupling efficiency for the aliphatic-to-aliphatic or carbonyl-to-aliphatic correlations, respectively. At moderate MAS frequencies (10-20 kHz), all R2(n)(v) sequences introduced in this work display similar transfer efficiencies, and their performance is very similar to that of PDSD and DARR. Polarization transfer dynamics and chemical shift dependencies of these R2-driven spin diffusion (RDSD) schemes are experimentally evaluated and investigated by numerical simulations for [U-(13)C,(15)N]-alanine and the [U-(13)C,(15)N] N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe (MLF) tripeptide. Further applications of this approach are illustrated for several proteins: spherical assemblies of HIV-1 U-(13)C,(15)N CA protein, U-(13)C,(15)N-enriched dynein light chain DLC8, and sparsely (13)C/uniformly (15)N enriched CAP-Gly domain of dynactin. Due to the excellent performance and ease of implementation, the presented R2(n)(v) symmetry sequences are expected to be of wide applicability in studies of proteins and protein assemblies as well as other organic solids by MAS NMR spectroscopy.
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- Guangjin Hou
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086, Tallinn, Estonia
- Physics Department, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1051 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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Dumez JN, Emsley L. A master-equation approach to the description of proton-driven spin diffusion from crystal geometry using simulated zero-quantum lineshapes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:7363-70. [PMID: 21431110 DOI: 10.1039/c1cp00004g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Measurements of proton-driven carbon-13 spin diffusion (PDSD) by NMR spectroscopy are a central component of structural analyses of biomolecules in the solid-state. However, the quantitative link between experimental PDSD data and structural information is difficult to make. Here we observe that a master-equation approach can be used to model full PDSD dynamics accurately in polycrystalline (13)C-labelled L-histidine·HCl·H(2)O under magic-angle spinning. In the master-equation approach, PDSD rates and effective dipolar couplings are related by a function of the carbon-carbon zero-quantum lineshapes; we find that numerical simulations of the zero-quantum lineshapes are sufficiently accurate so as to allow the calculation of PDSD rates that are in good agreement with the measured rates, directly from crystal geometry and with no adjustable parameters. Finally, using carbon-carbon internuclear distances we illustrate the potential of the master-equation approach for structural studies. Generalisation of these results to proton-driven carbon-13 spin diffusion in more complex molecular systems is readily envisaged.
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- Jean-Nicolas Dumez
- Université de Lyon (CNRS/ENS Lyon/UCB Lyon1), Centre de RMN à très hauts champs, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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Renault M, Bos MP, Tommassen J, Baldus M. Solid-State NMR on a Large Multidomain Integral Membrane Protein: The Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Factor BamA. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:4175-7. [DOI: 10.1021/ja109469c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Marie Renault
- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and ‡Department of Molecular Microbiology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and ‡Department of Molecular Microbiology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and ‡Department of Molecular Microbiology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and ‡Department of Molecular Microbiology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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