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Novakovic M, Kim J, Su XC, Kupče E, Frydman L. Relaxation-Assisted Magnetization Transfer Phenomena for a Sensitivity-Enhanced 2D NMR. Anal Chem 2023; 95:18091-18098. [PMID: 38008904 PMCID: PMC10719887 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
Abstract
2D NOESY and TOCSY play central roles in contemporary NMR. We have recently discussed how solvent-driven exchanges can significantly enhance the sensitivity of such methods when attempting correlations between labile and nonlabile protons. This study explores two scenarios where similar sensitivity enhancements can be achieved in the absence of solvent exchange: the first one involves biomolecular paramagnetic systems, while the other involves small organic molecules in natural abundance. It is shown that, in both cases, the effects introduced by either differential paramagnetic shift and relaxation or by polarization sharing among networks of protons can provide a similar sensitivity boost, as previously discussed for solvent exchange. The origin and potential of the resulting enhancements are analyzed, and experiments that demonstrate them in protein and natural products are exemplified. Limitations and future improvements of these approaches are also briefly discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mihajlo Novakovic
- Departments
of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Departments
of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
- Department
of Chemistry Education, Kyungpook National
University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- State
Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- Bruker
Ltd., Banner Lane, Coventry CV4 9GH, United Kingdom
| | - Lucio Frydman
- Departments
of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Wolf T, Eden-Kossoy A, Frydman L. Indirectly detected satellite-transition quadrupolar NMR via progressive saturation of the proton reservoir. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2023; 125:101862. [PMID: 36989551 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2023.101862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Static satellite-transitions (ST) NMR line shapes from half-integer quadrupolar nuclei could be very informative: they can deliver insight about local motions over a wide range of timescales, and can report on small changes in the local electronic environments as reflected by variations in the quadrupolar parameters. Satellite transitions, however, are typically "invisible" for half-integer quadrupolar nuclei due to their sheer breadth, leading to low signal-to-noise ratio -especially for unreceptive low-gamma or dilute quadrupolar nuclei. Very recently we have introduced a method for enhancing the NMR sensitivity of unreceptive X nuclei in static solids dubbed PROgressive Saturation of the Proton Reservoir (PROSPR), which opens the possibility of magnifying the signals from such spins by repeatedly imprinting frequency-selective X-driven depolarizations on the much more sensitive 1H NMR signal. Here, we show that PROSPR's efficacy is high enough for enabling the detection of static ST NMR for challenging species like 35Cl, 33S and even 17O -all at natural-abundance. The ensuing ST-PROSPR NMR experiment thus opens new approaches to probe ultra-wideline (6-8 MHz wide) spectra. These highly pronounced anisotropies can in turn deliver new vistas about dynamic changes in solids, as here illustrated by tracking ST line shapes as a function of temperature during thermally-driven events.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tamar Wolf
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel.
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Jaroszewicz MJ, Novakovic M, Frydman L. On the potential of Fourier-encoded saturation transfers for sensitizing solid-state magic-angle spinning NMR experiments. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:054201. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0076946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Michael J. Jaroszewicz
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel
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Jaroszewicz M, Altenhof AR, Schurko RW, Frydman L. Sensitivity Enhancement by Progressive Saturation of the Proton Reservoir: A Solid-State NMR Analogue of Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:19778-19784. [PMID: 34793152 PMCID: PMC8640991 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c08277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) enhances solution-state NMR signals of labile and otherwise invisible chemical sites, by indirectly detecting their signatures as a highly magnified saturation of an abundant resonance─for instance, the 1H resonance of water. Stimulated by this sensitivity magnification, this study presents PROgressive Saturation of the Proton Reservoir (PROSPR), a method for enhancing the NMR sensitivity of dilute heteronuclei in static solids. PROSPR aims at using these heteronuclei to progressively deplete the abundant 1H polarization found in most organic and several inorganic solids, and implements this 1H signal depletion in a manner that reflects the spectral intensities of the heteronuclei as a function of their chemical shifts or quadrupolar offsets. To achieve this, PROSPR uses a looped cross-polarization scheme that repeatedly depletes 1H-1H local dipolar order and then relays this saturation throughout the full 1H reservoir via spin-diffusion processes that act as analogues of chemical exchanges in the CEST experiment. Repeating this cross-polarization/spin-diffusion procedure multiple times results in an effective magnification of each heteronucleus's response that, when repeated in a frequency-stepped fashion, indirectly maps their NMR spectrum as sizable attenuations of the abundant 1H NMR signal. Experimental PROSPR examples demonstrate that, in this fashion, faithful wideline NMR spectra can be obtained. These 1H-detected heteronuclear NMR spectra can have their sensitivity enhanced by orders of magnitude in comparison to optimized direct-detect experiments targeting unreceptive nuclei at low natural abundance, using modest hardware requirements and conventional NMR equipment at room temperature.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael
J. Jaroszewicz
- Department
of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
- National
High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
- National
High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
- National
High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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Novakovic M, Battistel MD, Azurmendi HF, Concilio MG, Freedberg DI, Frydman L. The Incorporation of Labile Protons into Multidimensional NMR Analyses: Glycan Structures Revisited. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:8935-8948. [PMID: 34085814 PMCID: PMC8297728 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
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Glycan structures
are often stabilized by a repertoire of hydrogen-bonded
donor/acceptor groups, revealing longer-lived structures that could
represent biologically relevant conformations. NMR provides unique
data on these hydrogen-bonded networks from multidimensional experiments
detecting cross-peaks resulting from through-bond (TOCSY) or through-space
(NOESY) interactions. However, fast OH/H2O exchange, and
the spectral proximity among these NMR resonances, hamper the use
of glycans’ labile protons in such analyses; consequently,
studies are often restricted to aprotic solvents or supercooled aqueous
solutions. These nonphysiological conditions may lead to unrepresentative
structures or to probing a small subset of accessible conformations
that may miss “active” glycan conformations. Looped,
projected spectroscopy (L-PROSY) has been recently shown to substantially
enhance protein NOESY and TOCSY cross-peaks, for 1Hs that
undergo fast exchange with water. This study shows that even larger
enhancements can be obtained for rapidly exchanging OHs in saccharides,
leading to the retrieval of previously undetectable 2D TOCSY/NOESY
cross-peaks with nonlabile protons. After demonstrating ≥300%
signal enhancements on model monosaccharides, these experiments were
applied at 1 GHz to elucidate the structural network adopted by a
sialic acid homotetramer, used as a model for α,2–8 linked
polysaccharides. High-field L-PROSY NMR enabled these studies at higher
temperatures and provided insight previously unavailable from lower-field
NMR investigations on supercooled samples, involving mostly nonlabile
nuclei. Using L-PROSY’s NOEs and other restraints, a revised
structural model for the homotetramer was obtained combining rigid
motifs and flexible segments, that is well represented by conformations
derived from 40 μs molecular dynamics simulations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mihajlo Novakovic
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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- Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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Sensitivity enhancement of homonuclear multidimensional NMR correlations for labile sites in proteins, polysaccharides, and nucleic acids. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5317. [PMID: 33087707 PMCID: PMC7577996 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19108-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Multidimensional TOCSY and NOESY are central experiments in chemical and biophysical NMR. Limited efficiencies are an intrinsic downside of these methods, particularly when targeting labile sites. This study demonstrates that the decoherence imparted on these protons through solvent exchanges can, when suitably manipulated, lead to dramatic sensitivity gains per unit time in the acquisition of these experiments. To achieve this, a priori selected frequencies are encoded according to Hadamard recipes, while concurrently subject to looped selective inversion or selective saturation procedures. Suitable processing then leads to protein, oligosaccharide and nucleic acid cross-peak enhancements of ≈200–1000% per scan, in measurements that are ≈10-fold faster than conventional counterparts. The extent of these gains will depend on the solvent exchange and relaxation rates of the targeted sites; these gains also benefit considerably from the spectral resolution provided by ultrahigh fields, as corroborated by NMR experiments at 600 MHz and 1 GHz. The mechanisms underlying these experiments’ enhanced efficiencies are analyzed on the basis of three-way polarization transfer interplays between the water, labile and non-labile protons, and the experimental results are rationalized using both analytical and numerical derivations. Limitations as well as further extensions of the proposed methods, are also discussed. Here, the authors present an approach that enhances the sensitivity of basic 2D biomolecular NMR experiments like NOESY and TOCSY, when carried out in polysaccharides, proteins and nucleic acids. This method combines principles associated to quantum Anti-Zeno Effects and advanced data acquisition methods based on Hadamard multiplexing.
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Novakovic M, Cousin SF, Jaroszewicz MJ, Rosenzweig R, Frydman L. Looped-PROjected SpectroscopY (L-PROSY): A simple approach to enhance backbone/sidechain cross-peaks in 1H NMR. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2018; 294:169-180. [PMID: 30064051 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2018.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
Abstract
Cross-relaxation and isotropic mixing phenomena leading to the Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) and to the TOCSY experiment, lie at the center of structural determinations by NMR. 2D TOCSY and NOESY exploit these polarization transfer effects to determine inter-site connectivities and molecular geometries under physiologically-relevant conditions. Among these sequences' drawback, particularly for the case of NOEs, are a lack of sensitivity arising from small structurally-relevant cross peaks. The present study explores the application of multiple Zeno-like projective measurements, to enhance the cross-peaks between spectrally distinct groups in proteins -in particular between amide and aliphatic protons. The enhancement is based on repeating the projection done by Ramsey or TOCSY blocks multiple times, in what we refer to as Looped, PROjected Spectroscopy (L-PROSY). This leads to a reset of the amide/aliphatic transfer processes; the initial slopes of the NOE- or J-transfer effects thus define the cross-peak growth, and a faster cross-peak buildup is achieved upon looping these transfers over the allotted time T1. These projections also help to better preserve the magnetization originating in the amides, resulting in an overall improvement in sensitivity. L-PROSY's usefulness is demonstrated by incorporating it into two widely used protein NMR experiments: 2D 15N-1H HMQC-NOESY and 15N-filtered 2D NOESY. Different parameters dictating the overall SNR improvement, particularly the protein correlation times and the amide-water chemical exchange rates, were examined, and L-PROSY's enhancements resulted for all tested proteins. The largest cross-peak enhancements were observed for unstructured proteins, where chemical exchanges with the solvent of the kind that tend to average out NOE cross-peaks in conventional NMR, boost L-PROSY's cross-peaks by replenishing the amide's magnetizations within each loop. Enhanced cross-peaks were also found in extensions involving TOCSY-based experiments when applied to proteins with unfolded segments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mihajlo Novakovic
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
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