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1School of Chemistry, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
Abstract:
The capsid dynamics of filamentous bacteriophages is related to their function, stability, and interactions with the genome, and can be assessed by measuring the chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) of 15 N amides, which are sensitive to large amplitude motions. In this study, CSA recoupling experiments under magic-angle spinning NMR were used to probe the dynamics of the y21m capsid mutant of fd bacteriophage. Based on fitting the generated CSA lineshapes, residues located in the N-terminus undergo increased motional amplitudes suggesting its global motion, whereas other backbone residues are rigid, and imply a tight hydrophobic packing of the phage.
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