Solid state NMR: new tools for insight into enzyme function

Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2007 Oct;17(5):617-22. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.10.001. Epub 2007 Oct 25.

Abstract

NMR has had considerable impact in enzymology, probing evidence for ionization states, conformational 'strain', compressed interactions, electronically unusual species, and conformational dynamics of enzymes. Solid-state NMR is becoming increasingly important in studying enzymes because of a number of recent tools for analysis of proteins by SSNMR, and because of the growing ability to isolate the species of interest for analysis. Here, we review recent studies of a Michaelis complex, of the dynamic functioning of membrane-associated enzymes, and initial studies of several enzymes with redox-active and paramagnetic centers.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy / methods
  • Enzymes / chemistry*
  • Enzymes / metabolism*
  • Metalloproteases / chemistry
  • Metalloproteases / metabolism
  • Models, Molecular
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / methods*
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Protein Conformation
  • Thermodynamics

Substances

  • Enzymes
  • Metalloproteases