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J Mol Biol. 1998 Jul 31;280(5):867-77
Authors: West NJ, Smith LJ
The behaviour of amino acid side-chains in proteins in solution has been characterised by analysing NMR 3JHalphaH beta coupling constants and crystallographic chi1 torsion angles. Side-chains both in the core of native folded proteins and in situations where there is an absence of close packing including the random coil state have been considered. An analysis of experimental 3JHalphaH beta coupling constant data for ten proteins shows that in the core of native proteins a very close similarity is observed between the chi1 conformations adopted in solution and in crystals. There is clear evidence, however, for significant motional averaging about the chi1 torsion angles in solution. Using a model of a Gaussian distribution about the average torsion angles the extent of these fluctuations has been quantified; the standard deviation for the motion is 26 degrees, the fluctuations about chi1 in the protein core being similar in size to those found for main-chain phi torsion angles in solution. From the distribution of chi1 torsion angles in a data base of protein crystal structures, torsion angle populations and coupling constants have been predicted for a random coil polypeptide. Significant variations in the chi1 distributions for different amino acids give differences in the predicted coupling constants; for 3JHalphaH beta, for example, values of 5.1 and 5.7 Hz are predicted for serine compared with 4.9 and 9.9 Hz for leucine. Experimental data for short unstructured peptides show an excellent agreement with the predictions, indicating that the overall chi1 distributions in protein crystals reflect the local preferences of the amino acids. Predictions from the protein data base therefore provide an important framework for interpreting experimental data for non-native protein conformations and for residues on the surface of folded proteins.
RCI - Random Coil Index for predicting protein flexibility from chemical shifts
RCI website
RCI method predicts protein flexibility by calculating the Random Coil Index from backbone chemical shifts and predicting values of model-free order parameters as well as per-residue RMSF of NMR and MD ensembles from the Random Coil Index.
The key advantages of this protocol over existing methods of studying protein flexibility are (i) it does not require prior knowledge of a protein's tertiary structure, (ii) it is not sensitive to the protein's overall tumbling and (iii) it does not require additional NMR measurements beyond the standard experiments for backbone...
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Interactions of protein side chains with RNA defined with REDOR solid state NMR.
Interactions of protein side chains with RNA defined with REDOR solid state NMR.
Interactions of protein side chains with RNA defined with REDOR solid state NMR.
J Biomol NMR. 2011 Sep 25;
Authors: Huang W, Varani G, Drobny GP
Abstract
Formation of the complex between human immunodeficiency virus type-1 Tat protein and the transactivation response region (TAR) RNA is vital for transcriptional elongation, yet the structure of the Tat-TAR complex remains to be established. The NMR structures of free TAR, and TAR bound to Tat-derived...
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[NMR paper] Accepting its random coil nature allows a partial NMR assignment of the neuronal Tau
Accepting its random coil nature allows a partial NMR assignment of the neuronal Tau protein.
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Chembiochem. 2004 Dec 3;5(12):1639-46
Authors: Smet C, Leroy A, Sillen A, Wieruszeski JM, Landrieu I, Lippens G
A combined strategy to obtain a partial NMR assignment of the neuronal Tau protein is presented. Confronted with the extreme spectral degeneracy that the spectrum of this 441 amino acid long unstructured protein presents, we have...
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[NMR paper] NMR assignment of protein side chains using residue-correlated labeling and NOE spect
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J Magn Reson. 2003 Dec;165(2):237-47
Authors: Mueller GA, Kirby TW, DeRose EF, London RE
A new approach for the isotopic labeling of proteins is proposed that aims to facilitate side chain resonance assignments. Residue-correlated (RC) labeling is achieved by the expression of a protein on a medium containing a mixture of labeled, e.g., amino acids,...
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[NMR paper] The effects of mutations on motions of side-chains in protein L studied by 2H NMR dyn
The effects of mutations on motions of side-chains in protein L studied by 2H NMR dynamics and scalar couplings.
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J Mol Biol. 2003 Jun 6;329(3):551-63
Authors: Millet O, Mittermaier A, Baker D, Kay LE
Recently developed 2H spin relaxation experiments are applied to study the dynamics of methyl-containing side-chains in the B1 domain of protein L and in a pair of point mutants of the domain, F22L and A20V. X-ray and...
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[NMR paper] Sequence-dependent correction of random coil NMR chemical shifts.
Sequence-dependent correction of random coil NMR chemical shifts.
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J Am Chem Soc. 2001 Apr 4;123(13):2970-8
Authors: Schwarzinger S, Kroon GJ, Foss TR, Chung J, Wright PE, Dyson HJ
Random coil chemical shifts are commonly used to detect secondary structure elements in proteins in chemical shift index calculations. While this technique is very reliable for folded proteins, application to unfolded proteins reveals significant deviations from measured random coil...
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Application of the random coil index to studying protein flexibility
Application of the random coil index to studying protein flexibility
Mark V. Berjanskii and David S. Wishart
Journal of Biomolecular NMR; 2008; 40(1); pp 31-48
Abstract:
Protein flexibility lies at the heart of many protein–ligand binding events and enzymatic activities. However, the experimental measurement of protein motions is often difficult, tedious and error-prone. As a result, there is a considerable interest in developing simpler and faster ways of quantifying protein flexibility. Recently, we described a method, called Random Coil Index (RCI), which appears to be able to...
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08-14-2008 01:03 AM
Chemical shift prediction in random coil peptides
Please check this program and let me know if it does work for your random coil peptides.
http://bloch.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/shiftpred/shiftpred.cgi
Thank you,
Bogdan Bancia
bbancia@yahoo.com