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Atomic Scale Structural Studies of Macromolecular Assemblies by Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Published on: September 17, 2017
A self-assembled, π-stacked complex as a finely-tunable magnetic aligner for biomolecular NMR applications
Sota Sato1, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Maho Yagi-Utsumi
1Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan. ssato@appchem.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp mfujita@appchem.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Abstract:
The number of molecules constituting 1D intermolecular aggregates of the π-stacked self-assembled complex was controlled by altering the concentration and temperature. Enhanced magnetic orientation was observed for the aggregates with larger aggregation numbers. It was demonstrated that the designable complex aggregates serve as magnetic aligners to induce magnetic alignment upon an analyte protein coexisting in the solution, resulting in the observation of residual dipolar coupling (RDC) of the analyte.
