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JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR
Volume 74, Issue 8-9, Pages 365-379Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10858-020-00331-z
Keywords
Fluorine NMR; TROSY; Nucleic acids; Proteins; Drug discovery; 4-fluorophenylalanine
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- NIH [GM136859, GM129026]
- American Heart Association's fellowship [19POST34380800]
- Austrian Science Fund's Schrodinger Fellowship [J3872-B21]
- Claudia Adams Barr Program for Innovative Cancer Research
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The fluorine-19 nucleus was recognized early to harbor exceptional properties for NMR spectroscopy. With 100% natural abundance, a high gyromagnetic ratio (83% sensitivity compared to(1)H), a chemical shift that is extremely sensitive to its surroundings and near total absence in biological systems, it was destined to become a favored NMR probe, decorating small and large molecules. However, after early excitement, where uptake of fluorinated aromatic amino acids was explored in a series of animal studies,F-19-NMR lost popularity, especially in large molecular weight systems, due to chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) induced line broadening at high magnetic fields. Recently, two orthogonal approaches, (i) CF(3)labeling and (ii) aromatic(19)F-C-13 labeling leveraging the TROSY (Transverse Relaxation Optimized Spectroscopy) effect have been successfully applied to study large biomolecular systems. In this perspective, we will discuss the fascinating early work with fluorinated aromatic amino acids, which reveals the enormous potential of these non-natural amino acids in biological NMR and the potential of(19)F-NMR to characterize protein and nucleic acid structure, function and dynamics in the light of recent developments. Finally, we explore how fluorine NMR might be exploited to implement small molecule or fragment screens that resemble physiological conditions and discuss the opportunity to follow the fate of small molecules in living cells.
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