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J Phys Chem B. 2017 Sep 13;:
Authors: Nygaard R, Romaniuk JAH, Rice DM, Cegelski L
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Solid-state NMR is a powerful tool for quantifying chemical composition and structure in complex assemblies and even whole cells. We employed N{P} REDOR NMR to obtain atomic-level distance propensities in intact 15N-labeled E. coli ribosomes. The experimental REDOR dephasing of shift-resolved lysyl amine nitrogens by phosphorous was comparable to that expected from a calculation of N-P distances involving the lysines included in the crystal structure coordinates. Among the nitrogen contributions to the REDOR spectra, the strongest dephasing emerged from the dipolar couplings to phosphorous involving nitrogen peaks ascribed primarily to rRNA and the weakest dephasing arose from protein amide nitrogens. This approach is applicable to any macromolecular system and provides quantitative comparisons of distance proximities between shift-resolved nuclei of one type and heteronuclear dephasing spins. Enhanced molecular specificity could be achieved through the use of spectroscopic filters or specific labeling. Furthermore, ribosome 13C and 15N CPMAS spectra were compared with those of whole cells from which the ribosomes were isolated. Whole-cell signatures of ribosomes were identified and should be of value in comparing overall cellular ribosome content in whole-cell samples.
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Very large residual dipolar couplings from deuterated ubiquitin
Very large residual dipolar couplings from deuterated ubiquitin
Abstract Main-chain 1HNâ??15N residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) ranging from approximately â??200 to 200 Hz have been measured for ubiquitin under strong alignment conditions in Pf1 phage. This represents a ten-fold increase in the degree of alignment over the typical weakly aligned samples. The measurements are made possible by extensive proton-dilution of the sample, achieved by deuteration of the protein with partial back-substitution of labile protons from 25 % H2O / 75 % D2O buffer. The spectral quality is further...
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Independent alignment of RNA for dynamic studies using residual dipolar couplings
Independent alignment of RNA for dynamic studies using residual dipolar couplings
Abstract Molecular motion and dynamics play an essential role in the biological function of many RNAs. An important source of information on biomolecular motion can be found in residual dipolar couplings which contain dynamics information over the entire ms-ps timescale. However, these methods are not fully applicable to RNA because nucleic acid molecules tend to align in a highly collinear manner in different alignment media. As a consequence, information on dynamics that can be obtained with this method...
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Residual dipolar couplings: are multiple independent alignments always possible?
Residual dipolar couplings: are multiple independent alignments always possible?
Abstract RDCs for the 14 kDa protein hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) have been measured in eight different alignment media. The elongated shape and strongly positively charged surface of HEWL appear to limit the protein to four main alignment orientations. Furthermore, low levels of alignment and the proteinâ??s interaction with some alignment media increases the experimental error. Together with heterogeneity across the alignment media arising from constraints on temperature, pH and ionic strength for some...
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[NMR paper] Residual dipolar couplings in NMR structure analysis.
Residual dipolar couplings in NMR structure analysis.
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Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct. 2004;33:387-413
Authors: Lipsitz RS, Tjandra N
Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) have recently emerged as a new tool in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with which to study macromolecular structure and function in a solution environment. RDCs are complementary to the more conventional use of NOEs to provide structural information. While NOEs are local-distance restraints, RDCs provide...
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[NMR paper] Residual dipolar couplings: synergy between NMR and structural genomics.
Residual dipolar couplings: synergy between NMR and structural genomics.
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J Biomol NMR. 2002 Jan;22(1):1-8
Authors: Al-Hashimi HM, Patel DJ
Structural genomics is on a quest for the structure and function of a significant fraction of gene products. Current efforts are focusing on structure determination of single-domain proteins, which can readily be targeted by X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy and computational homology modeling. However,...
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[NMR paper] Two simple NMR experiments for measuring dipolar couplings in asparagine and glutamin
Two simple NMR experiments for measuring dipolar couplings in asparagine and glutamine side chains.
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J Magn Reson. 2001 Dec;153(2):267-72
Authors: Permi P
Residual dipolar couplings are now widely used for structure determination of biological macromolecules. Until recently, the main focus has been on measurement of dipolar couplings in the protein main chain. However, with the aim of more complete protein structure, it is also...
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[NMR paper] Protein structural motif recognition via NMR residual dipolar couplings.
Protein structural motif recognition via NMR residual dipolar couplings.
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J Am Chem Soc. 2001 Feb 14;123(6):1222-9
Authors: Andrec M, Du P, Levy RM
NMR residual dipolar couplings have great potential to provide rapid structural information for proteins in the solution state. This information even at low resolution may be used to advantage in proteomics projects that seek to annotate large numbers of gene products for entire genomes. In this paper, we...
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