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Andrea Bertarello1, Tobias Schubeis1,2, Carmelo Fuccio3
1Centre de RMN à Très Hauts Champs, Institut des Sciences Analytiques (CNRS, ENS Lyon, UCB Lyon 1), Université de Lyon , 69100 Villeurbanne, France.
Abstract:
We present the first solid-state NMR study of an iron-sulfur protein. The combined use of very fast (60 kHz) magic-angle spinning and tailored radiofrequency irradiation schemes allows the detection and the assignment of most of the 1H and 13C resonances of the oxidized high-potential iron-sulfur protein I from Ectothiorhodospira halophila (EhHiPIP I), including those in residues coordinating the Fe4S4 cluster. For these residues, contact shifts as large as 100 and 400 ppm for 1H and 13C resonances, respectively, were observed, which represent the most shifted solid-state NMR signals ever measured in metalloproteins. Interestingly, by targeting EhHiPIP I in a crystalline environment, we were able to capture distinct paramagnetic signatures from the two conformations present in the asymmetric unit. The magnetic properties of the system were verified by following the temperature dependence of the contact-shifted cysteine resonances.
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