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Biochem Soc Trans. 2013 Dec 1;41(6):1343-1354
Authors: Clore GM
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Sparsely populated transient states of proteins and their complexes play an important role in many biological processes including protein-protein and protein-DNA recognition, allostery, conformational selection, induced fit and self-assembly. These states are difficult to study as their low population and transient nature makes them effectively invisible to conventional structural and biophysical techniques. In the present article, I summarize recent NMR developments in our laboratory, including the use of paramagnetic relaxation enhancement, lifetime line broadening and dark-state exchange saturation transfer spectroscopy, that have permitted such sparsely populated states to be detected, characterized and, in some instances, visualized. I illustrate the application of these methods to the elucidation of mechanisms whereby transcription factors locate their specific target sites within an overwhelming sea of non-specific DNA, to the characterization of encounter complexes in protein-protein recognition, to large-scale interdomain motions involved in ligand binding, and to the interaction of monomeric amyloid ?-peptide with the surface of amyloid protofibrils and the internal cavity surface of the chaperonin GroEL.
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[NMR paper] Visualizing Side-chains of Invisible Protein Conformers by Solution NMR.
Visualizing Side-chains of Invisible Protein Conformers by Solution NMR.
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J Mol Biol. 2013 Nov 7;
Authors: Bouvignies G, Vallurupalli P, Kay LE
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Sparsely populated and transiently formed protein conformers can play key roles in many biochemical processes. Understanding the structure function paradigm requires, therefore, an atomic resolution description of these rare states. Yet they are difficult to study because they cannot be observed using...
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Visualizing Side-chains of Invisible Protein Conformers by Solution NMR
Visualizing Side-chains of Invisible Protein Conformers by Solution NMR
Publication date: Available online 8 November 2013
Source:Journal of Molecular Biology</br>
Author(s): Guillaume Bouvignies , Pramodh Vallurupalli , Lewis E. Kay</br>
Sparsely populated and transiently formed protein conformers can play key roles in many biochemical processes. Understanding the structure function paradigm requires, therefore, an atomic resolution description of these rare states. Yet they are difficult to study because they cannot be observed using standard biophysical...
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Invisible touch: What's the matter?
Invisible touch: What's the matter?
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/common/images/thumbnails/13f37676ba6.jpgAn explanation as to why we cannot detect 85 percent of the predicted mass of the universe has emerged from fundamental particle research carried out in the 1930s. US physicists have now proposed that dark matter, may be composed of Majorana fermions, which are anapoles with a doughnut-shaped electromagnetic field invisible to any known detector technology.
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[Question from NMRWiki Q&A forum] Diamagnetic contamination
Diamagnetic contamination
How to determine diamagnetic contamination in PRE experiments.In what extent it will effect the Gamma2 values?
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Exploring sparsely populated states of macromolecules by diamagnetic and paramagnetic NMR relaxation.
Exploring sparsely populated states of macromolecules by diamagnetic and paramagnetic NMR relaxation.
Exploring sparsely populated states of macromolecules by diamagnetic and paramagnetic NMR relaxation.
Protein Sci. 2011 Feb;20(2):229-46
Authors: Clore GM
Sparsely populated states of macromolecules, characterized by short lifetimes and high free-energies relative to the predominant ground state, often play a key role in many biological, chemical, and biophysical processes. In this review, we briefly summarize various new developments in NMR...
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Measuring (1)H (N) temperature coefficients in invisible protein states by relaxation dispersion NMR spectroscopy.
Measuring (1)H (N) temperature coefficients in invisible protein states by relaxation dispersion NMR spectroscopy.
Measuring (1)H (N) temperature coefficients in invisible protein states by relaxation dispersion NMR spectroscopy.
J Biomol NMR. 2011 Mar 18;
Authors: Bouvignies G, Vallurupalli P, Cordes MH, Hansen DF, Kay LE
A method based on the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill relaxation dispersion experiment is presented for measuring the temperature coefficients of amide proton chemical shifts of low populated 'invisible' protein states that exchange...
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[NMR paper] Probing copper2+ binding to the prion protein using diamagnetic nickel2+ and 1H NMR:
Probing copper2+ binding to the prion protein using diamagnetic nickel2+ and 1H NMR: the unstructured N terminus facilitates the coordination of six copper2+ ions at physiological concentrations.
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J Mol Biol. 2005 Mar 11;346(5):1393-407
Authors: Jones CE, Klewpatinond M, Abdelraheim SR, Brown DR, Viles JH
The prion protein (PrP) is a...
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[NMR paper] PASE (PAramagnetic signals enhancement): a new method for NMR study of paramagnetic p
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J Magn Reson. 1998 Sep;134(1):154-7
Authors: Bondon A, Mouro C
A new method for NMR spectra acquisition of paramagnetic proteins is described, based on the simple use of homonuclear broadband decoupling of the diamagnetic region. Several advantages are associated with this method which was applied to one-dimensional spectra, to 1D...