Ana Paula Aguilar Alva, Lucas Siemons, Ulric B le Paige, Coline Wiame, Florence Cordier, Nicolas Wolff, Guillaume Bouvignies, Philippe Pelupessy, Fabien Ferrage
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Abstract
Methyl groups are essential probes for characterising interactions and dynamics in large proteins. HN-based triple-resonance NMR experiments are often too insensitive for methyl assignments, making a NOESY-based approach an efficient strategy. Linking geminal methyl groups in leucine and valine residues is a crucial step in such NOESY-based methyl resonance assignment strategies. This link can be established unambiguously with the 3D-HMBC-HMQC experiment, introduced for large U-[12C, 2H] LV-[13CH3]2-labelled proteins. Here, we introduce the SOFAST variant of the 3D-HMBC-HMQC experiment which provides spectra with fewer artefacts arising from the water signal and a mean increase in signal-to-noise ratio per unit time of 16% compared to the original experiment with an optimised recovery delay.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Biomolecular NMR provides a forum for publishing research on technical developments and innovative applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the study of structure and dynamic properties of biopolymers in solution, liquid crystals, solids and mixed environments, e.g., attached to membranes. This may include:
Three-dimensional structure determination of biological macromolecules (polypeptides/proteins, DNA, RNA, oligosaccharides) by NMR.
New NMR techniques for studies of biological macromolecules.
Novel approaches to computer-aided automated analysis of multidimensional NMR spectra.
Computational methods for the structural interpretation of NMR data, including structure refinement.
Comparisons of structures determined by NMR with those obtained by other methods, e.g. by diffraction techniques with protein single crystals.
New techniques of sample preparation for NMR experiments (biosynthetic and chemical methods for isotope labeling, preparation of nutrients for biosynthetic isotope labeling, etc.). An NMR characterization of the products must be included.