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Spin Saturation Transfer Difference NMR (SSTD NMR): A New Tool to Obtain Kinetic Parameters of Chemical Exchange Processes
Published on: November 12, 2016
Solution NMR spin relaxation methods for characterizing chemical exchange in high-molecular-weight systems
Arthur G Palmer1, Michael J Grey, Chunyu Wang
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.
Abstract:
Transverse relaxation optimized NMR spectroscopy (TROSY) techniques for (1)H-(15)N backbone amide moieties and for (13)CH(3) methyl groups have permitted the development of Hahn spin echo and Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) experiments for characterizing chemical exchange kinetic phenomena on microsecond-millisecond time scales in proteins with molecular masses >50 kDa. This chapter surveys the theoretical bases for TROSY in spin systems subject to chemical exchange linebroadening, the experimental methods that have been developed to quantitatively characterize chemical exchange in large proteins, and the emerging applications to triose phosphate isomerase, hemoglobin, and malate synthase G, with molecular masses ranging from 54 to 82 kDa.
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