Microsecond Timescale Protein Dynamics: a Combined Solid-State NMR Approach

Rovo, Petra; Linser, Rasmus (2018): Microsecond Timescale Protein Dynamics: a Combined Solid-State NMR Approach. In: Chemphyschem, Vol. 19, No. 1: pp. 34-39

Abstract

Conformational exchange in proteins is a major determinant in protein functionality. In particular, the s-ms timescale is associated with enzymatic activity and interactions between biological molecules. We show here that a comprehensive data set of R1 relaxation dispersion profiles employing multiple effective fields and tilt angles can be easily obtained in perdeuterated, partly back-exchanged proteins at fast magic-angle spinning and further complemented with chemical-exchange saturation transfer NMR experiments. The approach exploits complementary sources of information and enables the extraction of multiple exchange parameters for s-ms timescale conformational exchange, most notably including the sign of the chemical shift differences between the ground and excited states.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
• Research Centers: Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM)
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• ISSN: 1439-4235
• Language: English