Ultrahigh resolution in proton solid-state NMR spectroscopy at high levels of deuteration
Ultrahigh resolution in proton solid-state NMR spectroscopy at high levels of deuteration
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200600328
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发表时间:
2006-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Reif, B
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作者:
Chevelkov, V;Rehbein, K;Reif, B
Structure investigations of biological solids by high-resolution magic-angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR spectroscopy has rapidly progressed in the last few years and resulted in complete structure elucidation of several peptides and small proteins.[1–4] Successful spectral assignment and determination of structural constraints in isotopically enriched materials (mostly 13C, 15N) is, however, still limited by resolution and sensitivity. A gain in sensitivity in solid-state NMR (ssNMR) experiments can in principle be achieved using direct proton detection. This technique makes use of the high gyromagnetic ratio g of protons, a property which however, leads to broad resonance lines. Several approaches have been suggested to achieve line narrowing. Application of windowed homonuclear decoupling schemes [5, 6] yield a rescaled 1H line width on the order of 140–400Hz, but require large receiver bandwidths, which allows radio-frequency (RF) noise to fold into the spectral region which finally compromises overall sensitivity. In addition, the applied pulse sequences scale the 1H chemical shift. In recent years, high-speed (35–60 kHz) MAS instrumentation has become available.[7–9] However, even at these high spinning rates, fully protonated samples still have homogeneously broadened lines (> 500 Hz). Alternatively, 1H line narrowing could be achieved by isotopic spin dilution at moderate (10–20kHz) MAS frequencies.[10–14] Dilution is achieved by perdeuteration of the sample and subsequent back-exchange of deuterons by protons. In these experiments, the 1H line width of most of the resonances is typically on the order 150–250 Hz or 80–150 Hz in the absence and in the presence of homonuclear 1H, 1H decoupling, respectively. This labeling strategy allows, in addition the determination of long-range HN–HN distances,[12, 15, 16] detection of dynamic water molecules in the protein structure [16, 17] and the characterization of protein side-chain dynamics.[18, 19]