DYNAMICS OF METHYL-GROUPS IN PROTEINS AS STUDIED BY PROTON-DETECTED C-13 NMR-SPECTROSCOPY - APPLICATION TO THE LEUCINE RESIDUES OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE
DYNAMICS OF METHYL-GROUPS IN PROTEINS AS STUDIED BY PROTON-DETECTED C-13 NMR-SPECTROSCOPY - APPLICATION TO THE LEUCINE RESIDUES OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00138a003
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发表时间:
1992-06-16
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
TORCHIA, DA
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作者:
NICHOLSON, LK;KAY, LE;TORCHIA, DA
This paper describes the application of recently developed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) pulse sequences to obtain information about the internal dynamics of isotopically enriched hydrophobic side chains in proteins. The two-dimensional spectra provided by the pulse sequences enable one to make accurate measurements of nuclear Overhauser effects (NOE) and longitudinal (T1) and transverse (T2) relaxation times of enriched methyl carbons in proteins. Herein, these techniques are used to investigate the internal dynamics of the 11 leucine side chains of staphylococcal nuclease (SNase), a small enzyme having M(r) = 16.8K, in the absence and presence of ligands thymidine 3',5'-bisphosphate (pdTp) and Ca2+. We report the synthesis of [5,5'-C-13(2)]leucine, the preparation of SNase containing the labeled leucine, the sequential assignment of the leucine methyl carbons and protons in the liganded and unliganded proteins, and the measurement of the C-13 T1, T2, and NOE values for the SNase leucine methyl carbons. Analysis of the relaxation parameters using the formalism of Lipari and Szabo shows that the internal motions of the leucine methyl carbons are characterized by effective correlation times tau(f) (5-80 ps) and tau(s) (