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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 19, Issue 41, Pages 28360-28380Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7cp05822e
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- ETH Zurich [0-2066-14]
- SNF [31003A-170130]
- Sinergia grant [CRSII5-170976]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [CRSII5_170976] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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A combined method, employing NMR and EPR spectroscopies, has demonstrated its strength in solving structures of protein/RNA and other types of biomolecular complexes. This method works particularly well when the large biomolecular complex consists of a limited number of rigid building blocks, such as RNA-binding protein domains (RBDs). A variety of spin labels is available for such studies, allowing for conventional as well as spectroscopically orthogonal double electron-electron resonance (DEER) measurements in EPR. In this work, we compare different types of nitroxide-based and Gd(III)-based spin labels attached to isolated RBDs of the polypyrimidine-tract binding protein 1 (PTBP1) and to short RNA fragments. In particular, we demonstrate experiments on spectroscopically orthogonal labelled RBD/RNA complexes. For all experiments we analyse spin labelling, DEER method performance, resulting distance distributions, and their consistency with the predictions from the spin label rotamers analysis. This work provides a set of intra-domain calibration DEER data, which can serve as a basis to start structure determination of the full length PTBP1 complex with an RNA derived from encephalomycarditis virus (EMCV) internal ribosomal entry site (IRES). For a series of tested labelling sites, we discuss their particular advantages and drawbacks in such a structure determination approach.
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