The membrane domain of the human red cell anion transport protein, band 3, is too large to be studied by solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), and its amphiphilic nature requires the use of detergents for solubilization. An alternative approach is to divide the protein into smaller (trans-membrane or surface loop) domains for NMR study. We report the structure of a 46-residue synthetic peptide that corresponds to the cytoplasmic surface loop connecting the putative 12th and 13th trans-membrane spans (residues 796-841) in the 14 span model of band 3. This peptide was shown by circular dichroism (CD) to be 38% helical in 30% trifluoroacetic acid. Two regions of helix (one close to the N-terminus of the peptide and one close to the C-terminus of the peptide) were identified by NMR. Long-range nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) cross-peaks showed the two helices to be in near proximity. The helices were separated by a proline-rich loop that exhibited local order but was mobile with respect to the rest of the peptide. We discuss how the NMR structure of this loop fits the current models of band 3 structure and topology and the results of recent mutagenesis experiments. A cyclic version of this peptide was synthesized and studied by CD, but NMR studies were not possible due to the low solubility of this peptide.
Probing the Interaction of Cisplatin with the Human Copper Chaperone Atox1 by Solution and In-Cell NMR Spectroscopy
Probing the Interaction of Cisplatin with the Human Copper Chaperone Atox1 by Solution and In-Cell NMR Spectroscopy
Fabio Arnesano, Lucia Banci, Ivano Bertini, Isabella C. Felli, Maurizio Losacco and Giovanni Natile
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NMR detection and characterization of sialylated glycoproteins and cell surface polysaccharides
NMR detection and characterization of sialylated glycoproteins and cell surface polysaccharides
Abstract Few solution NMR pulse sequences exist that are explicitly designed to characterize carbohydrates (glycans). This is despite the essential role carbohydrate motifs play in cellâ??cell communication, microbial pathogenesis, autoimmune disease progression and cancer metastasis, and despite that fact that glycans, often shed to extra-cellular fluids, can be diagnostic of disease. Here we present a suite of two dimensional coherence experiments to measure three different correlations...
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Backbone and side chain NMR assignments for the intrinsically disordered cytoplasmic domain of human neuroligin-3.
Backbone and side chain NMR assignments for the intrinsically disordered cytoplasmic domain of human neuroligin-3.
Backbone and side chain NMR assignments for the intrinsically disordered cytoplasmic domain of human neuroligin-3.
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Authors: Wood K, Paz A, Dijkstra K, Scheek RM, Otten R, Silman I, Sussman JL, Mulder FA
Neuroligins act as heterophilic adhesion molecules at neuronal synapses. Their cytoplasmic domains interact with synaptic scaffolding proteins, and have been shown to be intrinsically disordered. Here we...
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[NMR paper] NMR structure and regulated expression in APL cell of human SH3BGRL3.
NMR structure and regulated expression in APL cell of human SH3BGRL3.
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FEBS Lett. 2005 May 23;579(13):2788-94
Authors: Xu C, Zheng P, Shen S, Xu Y, Wei L, Gao H, Wang S, Zhu C, Tang Y, Wu J, Zhang Q, Shi Y
SH3 domain binding glutamic acid-rich protein like 3 (SH3BGRL3) is the new member of thioredoxin (TRX) super family, whose posttranslational modified form was identified as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) inhibitory protein, TIP-B1. In this paper,...
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[NMR paper] NMR structure of the 3' stem-loop from human U4 snRNA.
NMR structure of the 3' stem-loop from human U4 snRNA.
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Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Oct 15;30(20):4371-9
Authors: Comolli LR, Ulyanov NB, Soto AM, Marky LA, James TL, Gmeiner WH
The NMR structure of the 3' stem-loop (3'SL) from human U4 snRNA was determined to gain insight into the structural basis for conservation of this stem-loop sequence from vertebrates. 3'SL sequences from human, rat, mouse and chicken U4 snRNA each consist of a 7 bp stem capped by a UACG tetraloop. No...
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[NMR paper] Structure of an RNA hairpin loop with a 5'-CGUUUCG-3' loop motif by heteronuclear NMR
Structure of an RNA hairpin loop with a 5'-CGUUUCG-3' loop motif by heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy and distance geometry.
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Biochemistry. 1997 Nov 18;36(46):13989-4002
Authors: Sich C, Ohlenschläger O, Ramachandran R, Görlach M, Brown LR
Structural features of a 19-nucleotide RNA hairpin loop (5'-GGCGUACGUUUCGUACGCC-3'),...
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[NMR paper] Transient hydrogen bonds identified on the surface of the NMR solution structure of H
Transient hydrogen bonds identified on the surface of the NMR solution structure of Hirudin.
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Biochemistry. 1994 Aug 9;33(31):9303-10
Authors: Szyperski T, Antuch W, Schick M, Betz A, Stone SR, WĂĽthrich K
Recombinant desulfatohirudin retains largely the thrombin-inhibitory activity of natural hirudin from Hirudo medicinalis and causes at most minimal immune response in humans. With regard to potential pharmaceutical applications it is...
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[KPWU blog] [IDP] Cytoplasmic Domain of the T Cell Receptor zeta
Cytoplasmic Domain of the T Cell Receptor zeta
Title:* The Intrinsically Disordered Cytoplasmic Domain of the T Cell Receptor ? Chain Binds to the Nef Protein of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus without a Disorder-to-Order Transition Authors: Alexander B. Sigalov, Walter M. Kim, Maria Saline and Lawrence J. Stern Journal: Biochemistry, 2008, 47 (49), pp 12942–12944 Not fully labeled in HSQChttp://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kpwu.wordpress.com&blog=76132&post=197&subd=kpwu&ref=&feed=1
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