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PLOS ONE
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072286
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- Wellcome Trust [WT097806MA]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G015651/1, BB/H003843/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_U117533887] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/G015651/1, BB/H003843/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MC_U117533887] Funding Source: UKRI
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alpha-Synuclein is a small protein strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. We report here the use of in-cell NMR spectroscopy to observe directly the structure and dynamics of this protein within E. coli cells. To improve the accuracy in the measurement of backbone chemical shifts within crowded in-cell NMR spectra, we have developed a deconvolution method to reduce inhomogeneous line broadening within cellular samples. The resulting chemical shift values were then used to evaluate the distribution of secondary structure populations which, in the absence of stable tertiary contacts, are a most effective way to describe the conformational fluctuations of disordered proteins. The results indicate that, at least within the bacterial cytosol, alpha-synuclein populates a highly dynamic state that, despite the highly crowded environment, has the same characteristics as the disordered monomeric form observed in aqueous solution.
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