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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 426, Issue 3, Pages 763-774Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.10.041
Keywords
CEST; conformationally excited states; chemical shifts; protein side chains
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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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. However, they are difficult to study because they cannot be observed using standard biophysical techniques. In the past decade, NMR methods have been developed for structural studies of these elusive conformers, focusing primarily on backbone H-1, N-15 and C-13 nuclei. Here we extend the methodology to include side chains by developing a C-13-based chemical exchange saturation transfer experiment for the assignment of side-chain aliphatic C-13 chemical shifts in uniformly C-13 labeled proteins. A pair of applications is provided, involving the folding of beta-sheet Fyn SH3 and alpha-helical FF domains. Over 96% and 89% of the side-chain C-13 chemical shifts for excited states corresponding to the unfolded conformation of the Fyn SH3 domain and a folding intermediate of the FF domain, respectively, have been obtained, providing insight into side-chain packing and dynamics. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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