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Anal Biochem. 2016 Mar 24;
Authors: Burger JL, Jeerage KM, Bruno TJ
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Mammals are able to perceive and differentiate a great number of structurally diverse odorants through the odorant's interaction with odorant receptors (ORs), proteins found within the cell membrane of olfactory sensory neurons. The natural gas industry has utilized human olfactory sensitivity to sulfur compounds (thiols, sulfides, etc.) to increase the safety of fuel gas transport, storage, and use through the odorization of this product. In the United States mixtures of sulfur compounds are used, but the major constituent of odorant packages is 2-methylpropane-2-thiol, also known as tert-butyl mercaptan. It has been fundamentally challenging to understand olfaction and odorization due to the low affinity of odorous ligands to the ORs and the difficulty in expressing a sufficient number of OR proteins. Here, we directly observed the binding of tert-butyl mercaptan and another odiferous compound, cis-cyclooctene, to mouse OR MOR244-3 on living cells by saturation transfer difference (STD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. This effort lays the groundwork for resolving molecular mechanisms responsible for ligand binding and resulting signaling, which will, in turn, lead to a clearer understanding of odorant recognition and competition.
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[NMR paper] (13)C (?) decoupling during direct observation of carbonyl resonances in solution NMR of isotopically enriched proteins.
(13)C (?) decoupling during direct observation of carbonyl resonances in solution NMR of isotopically enriched proteins.
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J Biomol NMR. 2014 Aug 17;
Authors: Ying J, Li F, Lee JH, Bax A
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Direct detection of (13)C can be advantageous when studying uniformly enriched proteins, in particular for paramagnetic proteins or when hydrogen exchange with solvent is fast. A scheme recently...
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Direct Observation of the Ion-Pair Dynamics at a Protein–DNAInterface by NMR Spectroscopy
Direct Observation of the Ion-Pair Dynamics at a Protein–DNAInterface by NMR Spectroscopy
Kurtis M. Anderson, Alexandre Esadze, Mariappan Manoharan, Rafael Bru?schweiler, David G. Gorenstein and Junji Iwahara
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DOI: 10.1021/ja312314b
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[NMR paper] Direct observation of the ion-pair dynamics at a protein-DNA interface by NMR spectroscopy.
Direct observation of the ion-pair dynamics at a protein-DNA interface by NMR spectroscopy.
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J Am Chem Soc. 2013 Feb 14;
Authors: Anderson KM, Esadze A, Manoharan M, Bruschweiler R, Gorenstein DG, Iwahara J
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Ion pairing is one of the most fundamental chemical interactions and is essential for molecular recognition by biological macromolecules. From an experimental standpoint, very little is known to date about ion-pair...
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[NMR paper] Direct NMR observation of a substrate protein bound to the chaperonin GroEL.
Direct NMR observation of a substrate protein bound to the chaperonin GroEL.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Sep 6;102(36):12748-53
Authors: Horst R, Bertelsen EB, Fiaux J, Wider G, Horwich AL, Wüthrich K
The reaction cycle and the major structural states of the molecular chaperone GroEL and its cochaperone, GroES, are well characterized. In contrast, very little is known about the nonnative states of the substrate polypeptide acted on by the...
[NMR paper] Direct observation and characterization of DMPC/DHPC aggregates under conditions rele
Direct observation and characterization of DMPC/DHPC aggregates under conditions relevant for biological solution NMR.
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Biochim Biophys Acta. 2004 Aug 30;1664(2):241-56
Authors: van Dam L, Karlsson G, Edwards K
We have used cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) for inspection of aggregates formed by dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dihexanoylphosphatidylcholine (DHPC) in aqueous solution at...
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Direct observation of minimum-sized amyloid fibrils using solution NMR spectroscopy.
Direct observation of minimum-sized amyloid fibrils using solution NMR spectroscopy.
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Protein Sci. 2010 Oct 8;
Authors: Yoshimura Y, Sakurai K, Lee YH, Ikegami T, Chatani E, Naiki H, Goto Y
It is challenging to investigate the structure and dynamics of amyloid fibrils at the residue and atomic resolution due to their high molecular weight and heterogeneous properties. Here, we employed solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to...
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[NMR paper] Direct observation and elucidation of the structures of aged and nonaged phosphorylat
Direct observation and elucidation of the structures of aged and nonaged phosphorylated cholinesterases by 31P NMR spectroscopy.
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Biochemistry. 1993 Dec 14;32(49):13441-50
Authors: Segall Y, Waysbort D, Barak D, Ariel N, Doctor BP, Grunwald J, Ashani Y
31P NMR spectroscopy of butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), acetylcholinesterase (AChE), and chymotrypsin (Cht) inhibited by pinacolyl...