Complete assignment of Ala, Ile, Leu, Met and Val methyl groups of human blood group A and B glycosyltransferases using lanthanide-induced pseudocontact shifts and methylâ??methyl NOESY
Complete assignment of Ala, Ile, Leu, Met and Val methyl groups of human blood group A and B glycosyltransferases using lanthanide-induced pseudocontact shifts and methylâ??methyl NOESY
Human blood group A and B glycosyltransferases (GTA, GTB) are highly homologous glycosyltransferases. A number of high-resolution crystal structures is available showing that these enzymes convert from an open conformation into a catalytically active closed conformation upon substrate binding. However, the mechanism of glycosyltransfer is still under debate, and the precise nature as well as the time scales of conformational transitions are unknown. NMR offers a variety of experiments to shine more light on these unresolved questions. Therefore, in a first step we have assigned all methyl resonance signals in MILVA labeled samples of GTA and GTB, still a challenging task for 70Â*kDa homodimeric proteins. Assignments were obtained from methylâ??methyl NOESY experiments, and from measurements of lanthanide-induced pseudocontact shifts (PCS) using high resolution crystal structures as templates. PCSs and chemical shift perturbations, induced by substrate analogue binding, suggest that the fully closed state is not adopted in the presence of lanthanide ions.
Methyl group assignment using pseudocontact shifts with PARAssign
Methyl group assignment using pseudocontact shifts with PARAssign
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A new version of the program PARAssign has been evaluated for assignment of NMR resonances of the 76 methyl groups in leucines, isoleucines and valines in a 25Â*kDa protein, using only the structure of the protein and pseudocontact shifts (PCS) generated with a lanthanoid tag at up to three attachment sites. The number of reliable assignments depends strongly on two factors. The principle axes of the magnetic susceptibility tensors of the paramagnetic centers should not be...
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[NMR paper] Protein NMR Studies of substrate binding to human blood group A and B glycosyltransferases.
Protein NMR Studies of substrate binding to human blood group A and B glycosyltransferases.
Related Articles Protein NMR Studies of substrate binding to human blood group A and B glycosyltransferases.
Chembiochem. 2017 Mar 03;:
Authors: Peters T, Grimm LL, Weissbach S, Flügge F, Begemann N, Palcic M
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Donor and acceptor substrate binding to human blood group A and B glycosyltransferases (GTA, GTB) has been studied by a variety of protein NMR experiments. Prior crystallographic studies have shown these enzymes to adopt an...
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Sequence-specific assignment of methyl groups from the neuronal SNARE complex using lanthanide-induced pseudocontact shifts
Sequence-specific assignment of methyl groups from the neuronal SNARE complex using lanthanide-induced pseudocontact shifts
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Neurotransmitter release depends critically on the neuronal SNARE complex formed by syntaxin-1, SNAP-25 and synaptobrevin, as well as on other proteins such as Munc18-1, Munc13-1 and synaptotagmin-1. Although three-dimensional structures are available for these components, it is still unclear how they are assembled between the synaptic vesicle and plasma membranes to trigger fast, Ca2+-dependent membrane fusion. Methyl...
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Pulse EPR-enabled interpretation of scarce pseudocontact shifts induced by lanthanide binding tags
Pulse EPR-enabled interpretation of scarce pseudocontact shifts induced by lanthanide binding tags
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Pseudocontact shifts (PCS) induced by tags loaded with paramagnetic lanthanide ions provide powerful long-range structure information, provided the location of the metal ion relative to the target protein is known. Usually, the metal position is determined by fitting the magnetic susceptibility anisotropy (Î?Ď?) tensor to the 3D structure of the protein in an 8-parameter fit, which requires a large set of PCSs to be reliable. In an alternative...
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Long-lived nuclear spin states in methyl groups and quantum-rotor-induced polarization
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Long-lived nuclear spin states in methyl groups and quantum-rotor-induced polarization
Meier, B., et al., Long-lived nuclear spin states in methyl groups and quantum-rotor-induced polarization. J Am Chem Soc, 2013. 135(50): p. 18746-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24252212
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Efficient Acquisition of High-Resolution 4-D Diagonal-Suppressed Methyl-Methyl NOESY for Large Proteins
Efficient Acquisition of High-Resolution 4-D Diagonal-Suppressed Methyl-Methyl NOESY for Large Proteins
Publication year: 2012
Source:Journal of Magnetic Resonance</br>
Jie Wen, Jihui Wu, Pei Zhou</br>
The methyl-methyl NOESYexperimentplays an important role in determiningthe global folds of large proteins. Despite the high sensitivity of this experiment, the analysisof methyl-methyl NOEs is frequently hindered by the limited chemical shift dispersion of methyl groups, particularly methyl protons. Thismakes it difficult to unambiguously assign all of the methyl-methyl...
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Automated sequence- and stereo-specific assignment of methyl-labeled proteins by paramagnetic relaxation and methylâ??methyl nuclear overhauser enhancement spectroscopy
Automated sequence- and stereo-specific assignment of methyl-labeled proteins by paramagnetic relaxation and methylâ??methyl nuclear overhauser enhancement spectroscopy
Abstract Methyl-transverse relaxation optimized spectroscopy is rapidly becoming the preferred NMR technique for probing structure and dynamics of very large proteins up to ~1 MDa in molecular size. Data interpretation, however, necessitates assignment of methyl groups which still presents a very challenging and time-consuming process. Here we demonstrate that, in combination with a known 3D structure, paramagnetic...
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A simple biosynthetic method for stereospecific resonance assignment of prochiral methyl groups in proteins
A simple biosynthetic method for stereospecific resonance assignment of prochiral methyl groups in proteins
Abstract A new method for stereospecific assignment of prochiral methyl groups in proteins is presented in which protein samples are produced using U-glucose and subsaturating amounts of 2-methyl-acetolactate. The resulting non-uniform labeling pattern allows proR and proS methyl groups to be easily distinguished by their different phases in a constant-time two-dimensional 1H-13C correlation spectra. Protein samples are conveniently prepared using the same media composition as the...