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JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR
Volume 61, Issue 3-4, Pages 197-207Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10858-015-9899-6
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Pseudocontact shift; Lanthanide tag; Structure determination; Membrane proteins
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC [BB/K01983X/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G011915/1, BB/K01983X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/G011915/1, BB/K01983X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Obtaining enough experimental restraints can be a limiting factor in the NMR structure determination of larger proteins. This is particularly the case for large assemblies such as membrane proteins that have been solubilized in a membrane-mimicking environment. Whilst in such cases extensive deuteration strategies are regularly utilised with the aim to improve the spectral quality, these schemes often limit the number of NOEs obtainable, making complementary strategies highly beneficial for successful structure elucidation. Recently, lanthanide-induced pseudocontact shifts (PCSs) have been established as a structural tool for globular proteins. Here, we demonstrate that a PCS-based approach can be successfully applied for the structure determination of integral membrane proteins. Using the 7TM alpha-helical microbial receptor pSRII, we show that PCS-derived restraints from lanthanide binding tags attached to four different positions of the protein facilitate the backbone structure determination when combined with a limited set of NOEs. In contrast, the same set of NOEs fails to determine the correct 3D fold. The latter situation is frequently encountered in polytopical alpha-helical membrane proteins and a PCS approach is thus suitable even for this particularly challenging class of membrane proteins. The ease of measuring PCSs makes this an attractive route for structure determination of large membrane proteins in general.
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