Fast magic angle spinning NMR with heteronucleus detection for resonance assignments and structural characterization of fully protonated proteins

J Biomol NMR. 2014 Dec;60(4):219-29. doi: 10.1007/s10858-014-9870-y. Epub 2014 Nov 9.

Abstract

Heteronucleus-detected dipolar based correlation spectroscopy is established for assignments of ¹H, ¹³C, and ¹⁵N resonances and structural analysis in fully protonated proteins. We demonstrate that ¹³C detected 3D experiments are highly efficient and permit assignments of the majority of backbone resonances, as shown in an 89-residue dynein light chain 8, LC8 protein. With these experiments, we have resolved many ambiguities that were persistent in our previous studies using moderate MAS frequencies and lacking the ¹H dimension. The availability of ¹H isotropic chemical shifts measured with the heteronucleus-detected fast-MAS experiments presented here is essential for the accurate determination of the ¹H CSA tensors, which provide very useful structural probe. Finally, our results indicate that ¹³C detection in fast-MAS HETCOR experiments may be advantageous compared with ¹H detection as it yields datasets of significantly higher resolution in the ¹³C dimension than the ¹H detected HETCOR versions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Cytoplasmic Dyneins / chemistry
  • Drosophila Proteins / chemistry
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / methods*
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Protons

Substances

  • Drosophila Proteins
  • Proteins
  • Protons
  • Cytoplasmic Dyneins