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JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 197-208Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008354007926
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ambiguous intersulphur restraints; 3D structure refinement; disulphide bridge topology; identification of misassigned NOE; protein
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Knowledge of the native disulphide bridge topology allows the introduction of conformational restraints between remote parts of the peptide chain. This information is therefore of great importance for the successful determination of the three-dimensional structure of cysteine-rich proteins by NMR spectroscopy. In this paper we investigate the limitations of using ambiguous intersulphur restraints [Nilges, M. (1995) J. Mol. Biol., 245, 645-660] associated with NMR experimental information to determine the native disulphide bridge pattern. Using these restraints in a simulated annealing protocol we have determined the correct topology of numerous examples, including a protein with seven disulphide bridges (phospholipase A(2)) and a protein in which 25% of the total number of residues are cysteines (mu-conotoxin GIIIB). We have also characterised the behaviour of the method when only limited experimental data is available, and find that the proposed protocol permits disulphide bridge determination even with a small number of restraints (around 5 NOEs - including a long-range restraint - per residue). In addition, we have shown that under these conditions the use of a reduced penalty function allows the identification of misassigned NOE restraints. These results indicate that the use of ambiguous intersulphur distances with the proposed simulated annealing protocol is a general method for the determination of disulphide bridge topology, particularly interesting in the first steps of NMR study of cysteine-rich proteins. Comparison with previously proposed protocols indicates that the presented method is more reliable and the interpretation of results is straightforward.
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