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Orton HW, Abdelkader EH, Topping L, Butler SJ, Otting G. Localising nuclear spins by pseudocontact shifts from a single tagging site. Magn Reson (Gott) 2022; 3:65-76. [PMID: 37905181 PMCID: PMC10539793 DOI: 10.5194/mr-3-65-2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2023]
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Ligating a protein at a specific site with a tag molecule containing a paramagnetic metal ion provides a versatile way of generating pseudocontact shifts (PCSs) in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra. PCSs can be observed for nuclear spins far from the tagging site, and PCSs generated from multiple tagging sites have been shown to enable highly accurate structure determinations at specific sites of interest, even when using flexible tags, provided the fitted effective magnetic susceptibility anisotropy (Δ χ ) tensors accurately back-calculate the experimental PCSs measured in the immediate vicinity of the site of interest. The present work investigates the situation where only the local structure of a protein region or bound ligand is to be determined rather than the structure of the entire molecular system. In this case, the need for gathering structural information from tags deployed at multiple sites may be queried. Our study presents a computational simulation of the structural information available from samples produced with single tags attached at up to six different sites, up to six different tags attached to a single site, and in-between scenarios. The results indicate that the number of tags is more important than the number of tagging sites. This has important practical implications, as it is much easier to identify a single site that is suitable for tagging than multiple ones. In an initial experimental demonstration with the ubiquitin mutant S57C, PCSs generated with four different tags at a single site are shown to accurately pinpoint the location of amide protons in different segments of the protein.
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Affiliation(s)
- Henry W Orton
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Mahawaththa MC, Orton HW, Adekoya I, Huber T, Otting G, Nitsche C. Organoarsenic probes to study proteins by NMR spectroscopy. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 58:701-704. [PMID: 34927186 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc06497e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Arsenical probes enable structural studies of proteins. We report the first organoarsenic probes for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to study proteins in solutions. These probes can be attached to irregular loop regions. A lanthanide-binding tag induces sizable pseudocontact shifts in protein NMR spectra of a magnitude never observed for small paramagnetic probes before.
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- Mithun C Mahawaththa
- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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Orton HW, Qianzhu H, Abdelkader EH, Habel EI, Tan YJ, Frkic RL, Jackson CJ, Huber T, Otting G. Through-Space Scalar 19F- 19F Couplings between Fluorinated Noncanonical Amino Acids for the Detection of Specific Contacts in Proteins. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:19587-19598. [PMID: 34780162 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c10104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Fluorine atoms are known to display scalar 19F-19F couplings in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra when they are sufficiently close in space for nonbonding orbitals to overlap. We show that fluorinated noncanonical amino acids positioned in the hydrophobic core or on the surface of a protein can be linked by scalar through-space 19F-19F (TSJFF) couplings even if the 19F spins are in the time average separated by more than the van der Waals distance. Using two different aromatic amino acids featuring CF3 groups, O-trifluoromethyl-tyrosine and 4-trifluoromethyl-phenylalanine, we show that 19F-19F TOCSY experiments are sufficiently sensitive to detect TSJFF couplings between 2.5 and 5 Hz in the 19 kDa protein PpiB measured on a two-channel 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with a regular room temperature probe. A quantitative J evolution experiment enables the measurement of TSJFF coupling constants that are up to five times smaller than the 19F NMR line width. In addition, a new aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase was identified for genetic encoding of N6-(trifluoroacetyl)-l-lysine (TFA-Lys) and 19F-19F TOCSY peaks were observed between two TFA-Lys residues incorporated into the proteins AncCDT-1 and mRFP despite high solvent exposure and flexibility of the TFA-Lys side chains. With the ready availability of systems for site-specific incorporation of fluorinated amino acids into proteins by genetic encoding, 19F-19F interactions offer a straightforward way to probe the spatial proximity of selected sites without any assignments of 1H NMR resonances.
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- Henry W Orton
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide & Protein Science, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Orton HW, Stanek J, Schubeis T, Foucaudeau D, Ollier C, Draney AW, Le Marchand T, Cala‐De Paepe D, Felli IC, Pierattelli R, Hiller S, Bermel W, Pintacuda G. Protein‐NMR‐Resonanzzuordnung ohne Spektralanalyse: automatisierte Festkörper‐Projektionsspektroskopie in 5D (SO‐APSY). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201912211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Henry W. Orton
- Research School of ChemistryAustralian National University Canberra ACT 2601 Australien
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
- Faculty of ChemistryUniversity of Warsaw 02089 Warsaw Polen
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
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- CERM and Department of ChemistryUniversity of Florence 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italien
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- CERM and Department of ChemistryUniversity of Florence 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italien
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- Bruker BioSpin GmbH Silberstreifen 76287 Rheinstetten Deutschland
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne Frankreich
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Orton HW, Stanek J, Schubeis T, Foucaudeau D, Ollier C, Draney AW, Le Marchand T, Cala‐De Paepe D, Felli IC, Pierattelli R, Hiller S, Bermel W, Pintacuda G. Protein NMR Resonance Assignment without Spectral Analysis: 5D SOlid‐State Automated Projection SpectroscopY (SO‐APSY). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:2380-2384. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201912211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Henry W. Orton
- Research School of ChemistryAustralian National University Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
- Faculty of ChemistryUniversity of Warsaw 02089 Warsaw Poland
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
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- CERM and Department of ChemistryUniversity of Florence 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
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- CERM and Department of ChemistryUniversity of Florence 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
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- Bruker BioSpin GmbH Silberstreifen 76287 Rheinstetten Germany
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- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs (FRE 2034 CNRS, UCBL, ENS Lyon)Université de Lyon 69100 Villeurbanne France
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Measurements of paramagnetic relaxation enhancements (PREs) in 1H NMR spectra are an important tool to obtain long-range distance information in proteins, but quantitative interpretation is easily compromised by nonspecific intermolecular PREs. Here we show that PREs generated by lanthanides with anisotropic magnetic susceptibilities offer a route to accurate calibration-free distance measurements. As these lanthanides change 1H chemical shifts due to pseudocontact shifts, the relaxation rates in the paramagnetic and diamagnetic state can be measured with a single sample that simultaneously contains the protein labeled with a paramagnetic and a diamagnetic lanthanide ion. Nonspecific intermolecular PREs are thus automatically subtracted when calculating the PREs as the difference in nuclear relaxation rates between paramagnetic and diamagnetic protein. Although PREs from lanthanides with anisotropic magnetic susceptibilities are complicated by additional cross-correlation effects and residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) in the paramagnetic state, these effects can be controlled by the choice of lanthanide ion and experimental conditions. Using calbindin D9k with erbium, we succeeded in measuring intramolecular PREs with unprecedented accuracy, resulting in distance predictions with a root-mean-square-deviation of <0.9 Å in the range 11-24 Å.
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- Henry W Orton
- Research School of Chemistry , Australian National University , Canberra , Australian Capital Territory 2601 , Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry , Australian National University , Canberra , Australian Capital Territory 2601 , Australia
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Bontempi N, Chong KE, Orton HW, Staude I, Choi DY, Alessandri I, Kivshar YS, Neshev DN. Highly sensitive biosensors based on all-dielectric nanoresonators. Nanoscale 2017; 9:4972-4980. [PMID: 28382350 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr07904k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Biosensing based on nanophotonic structures has shown a great potential for cost-efficient, high-speed and compact personal medical diagnostics. While plasmonic nanosensors offer high sensitivity, their intrinsically restricted resonance quality factors and strong heating due to metal absorption impose severe limitations on real life applications. Here, we demonstrate an all-dielectric sensing platform based on silicon nanodisks with strong optically-induced magnetic resonances, which are able to detect a concentration of streptavidin of as low as 10-10 M (mol L-1) or 5 ng mL-1, thus pushing the current detection limit by at least two orders of magnitudes. Our study suggests a new direction in biosensing based on bio-compatible, non-toxic, robust and low-loss dielectric nanoresonators with potential applications in medicine, including disease diagnosis and drug detection.
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- Nicolò Bontempi
- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
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Chong KE, Orton HW, Staude I, Decker M, Miroshnichenko AE, Brener I, Kivshar YS, Neshev DN. Refractive index sensing with Fano resonances in silicon oligomers. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2017; 375:rsta.2016.0070. [PMID: 28220001 PMCID: PMC5321831 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We demonstrate experimentally refractive index sensing with localized Fano resonances in silicon oligomers, consisting of six disks surrounding a central one of slightly different diameter. Owing to the low absorption and narrow Fano-resonant spectral features appearing as a result of the interference of the modes of the outer and the central disks, we demonstrate refractive index sensitivity of more than 150 nm RIU-1 with a figure of merit of 3.8.This article is part of the themed issue 'New horizons for nanophotonics'.
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- Katie E Chong
- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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Paramagnetic metal ions accelerate nuclear spin relaxation; this effect is widely used for distance measurement and called paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE). Theoretical predictions established that, under special circumstances, it is also possible to achieve a reduction in nuclear relaxation rates (negative PRE). This situation would occur if the mechanism of nuclear relaxation in the diamagnetic state is counterbalanced by a paramagnetic relaxation mechanism caused by the metal ion. Here we report the first experimental evidence for such a cross-correlation effect. Using a uniformly 15N-labeled mutant of calbindin D9k loaded with either Tm3+ or Tb3+, reduced R1 and R2 relaxation rates of backbone 15N spins were observed compared with the diamagnetic reference (the same protein loaded with Y3+). The effect arises from the compensation of the chemical shift anisotropy tensor by the anisotropic dipolar shielding generated by the unpaired electron spin.
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- Henry W Orton
- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University , Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton , Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University , Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University , Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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