Cost-effective selective deuteration of aromatic amino acid residues produces long-lived solution 1H NMR magnetization in proteins
Solution NMR studies of large proteins are hampered by rapid signal decay due to short-range dipolar ¹H-¹H and ¹H-^(13)C interactions. These are attenuated by rapid rotation in methyl groups and by deuteration (²H), so selective ¹H,^(13)C-isotope labelling of methyl groups in otherwise perdeuterated proteins, combined with methyl transverse relaxation optimized spectroscopy (methyl-TROSY), is now standard for solution NMR of large protein systems > 25 kDa. For non-methyl positions, long-lived...
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