iHADAMAC: a complementary tool for sequential resonance assignment of globular and highly disordered proteins

Sophie Feuerstein1, Michael J Plevin, Dieter Willbold

  • 1Institut de Biologie Structurale, Université Grenoble 1, 41 rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex 1, France.

An experiment, iHADAMAC, is presented that yields information on the amino-acid type of individual residues in a protein by editing the (1)H-(15)N correlations into seven different 2D spectra, each corresponding to a different class of amino-acid types. Amino-acid type discrimination is realized via a Hadamard encoding scheme based on four different spin manipulations as recently introduced in the context of the sequential HADAMAC experiment. Both sequential and intra-residue HADAMAC experiments yield highly complementary information that greatly facilitate resonance assignment of proteins with high frequency degeneracy, as demonstrated here for a 188-residue intrinsically disordered protein fragment of the hepatitis C virus protein NS5A.

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