EFFECT OF MAGNETIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY ON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC-RESONANCE SIGNALS ARISING FROM RED-CELLS - A WARNING
EFFECT OF MAGNETIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY ON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC-RESONANCE SIGNALS ARISING FROM RED-CELLS - A WARNING
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00286a020
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
GEORGE, RCS
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作者:
FABRY, ME;GEORGE, RCS
Magnetic susceptibility effects apparently can strongly influence NMR spectra, particularly in cells, and lead to spurious line broadening and chemical shifts which will result in false conclusions about molecular motion and intracellular pH and equilibrium constants. Three specific instances of a general phenomenon resulting from the difference in magnetic susceptibility inside and outside deoxygenated red cells were examined. At 95 MHz the resonance of 19F covalently bound to both Hb and glutathione as the trifluoroacetonyl compund apparently undergoes substantial line broadening in deoxygenated red cells. Line broadening is not observed in oxygenated solutions or oxygenated cells nor is it observed in deoxygenated Hb solutions. The broad lines in the deoxy red cell can be narrowed by matching the magnetic susceptibility of the suspending medium to that of the cell interior by adding suitable amounts of a paramagnetic metal ion such as Mn or dysprosium to the suspending medium. Similarly, line broadening of the 31P resonance of 2,3-diphosphoglyceric acid was observed which occurs only in deoxygenated red cells and has a field dependence greater than the 1st power. This line broadening does not occur in oxygenated solutions or oxygenated cells nor does it occur in deoxygenated Hb solutions. Again, the broadened lines in the deoxygenated cells can be narrowed by matching the magnetic susceptibility. Because the line-broadening effects reported here do not depend on the nucleus, the chemical nature of the molecule, or the molecular size, they cannot be attributed to specific chemical interactions or interactions with the cell membrane. Because they can be eliminated by matching the internal and external magnetic susceptibility, we attribute the observed broadening to magnetic susceptibility differences. Differences in magnetic susceptibility will also result in systematic displacement of the chemical shift of resonances arising inside the cell which may either add to or cancel effects due to biochemical interactions. The appropriate corrections apparently can be estimated but that due to the presence of magnetic field gradients use of internal references may be necessary.