[NMR paper] Water scaffolding in collagen: Implications on protein dynamics as revealed by solid-state NMR.

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Water scaffolding in collagen: Implications on protein dynamics as revealed by solid-state NMR.

Water scaffolding in collagen: Implications on protein dynamics as revealed by solid-state NMR.

Biopolymers. 2013 Jun 19;

Authors: Aliev AE, Courtier-Murias D

Abstract
Solid-state NMR studies of collagen samples of various origin confirm that the amplitude of collagen backbone and sidechain motions increases significantly on increasing the water content. This conclusion is supported by the changes observed in three different NMR observables: (i) the linewidth dependence on the (1) H decoupling frequency; (ii) (13) C CSA changes for the peptide carbonyl groups, and (iii) dephasing rates of (1) H-(13) C dipolar couplings. In particular, a nearly three-fold increase in motional amplitudes of the backbone librations about C-C(?) or N-C(?) bonds was found on increasing the added water content up to 47 wt%D2 O. Based on the frequencies of NMR observables involved, the timescale of the protein motions dependent on the added water content is estimated to be of the order of microseconds. This estimate agrees with that from wideline T2 (1) H NMR measurements. Also, our wideline (1) H NMR measurements revealed that the timescale of the microsecond motions in proteins reduces significantly on increasing the added water content, i.e., an approximately 15-fold increase in protein motional frequencies is observed on increasing the added water content to 45 wt%D2 O. The observed changes in collagen dynamics is attributed to the increase in water translational diffusion on increasing the amount of added water, which leads to more frequent "bound water"/"free water" exchange on the protein surface, accompanied by the breakage and formation of new hydrogen bonds with polar functionalities of protein.


PMID: 23784805 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]



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