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NMR 15N Relaxation Experiments for the Investigation of Picosecond to Nanoseconds Structural Dynamics of Proteins

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横断リラクゼーション最適化パルスフィールドグラデントNMRを用いて測定されたマクロモレキュアアアセンブリのトランスレーション拡散

Reto Horst¹, Arthur L Horwich, Kurt Wüthrich

¹Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

|September 17, 2011

まとめ

この研究は,マクロ分子拡散を測定するための新しいパルスフィールドグラデント核磁気共鳴 (NMR) 実験を導入します. これらの方法は,構造生物学のためのソリューションで分子サイズと行動の正確な特徴を提示します.

科学分野:

構造生物学構造生物学とは
生物物理化学生物物理化学
マクロ分子NMRスペクトロスコピー

背景:

パルスフィールドグラデント (PFG) NMRスペクトロスコピーは,原始溶液条件下でマクロ分子サイズと水力力学パラメータの特徴づけに有利です.
拡散測定のための既存のNMRテクニックは,多様な分子サイズにわたってその適用性が制限されることがあります.

研究の目的:

溶液中のマクロ分子の翻訳拡散を研究するための高度なNMR実験を開発し,検証する.
新規の横断リラクゼーション最適化 (TRO) 実験の性能を従来の方法と比較する.

主な方法:

CRINEPTとTROSYの要素を併用した, (1) H-TRO-STEと (15) N-TRO-STEの2つの (15) N濾過されたPFG刺激エコー (STE) 実験の開発.
これらのTRO実験を,E. coliの外膜タンパク質X (OmpX) とFos-10洗浄剤の混合ミセルを用いた従来の (15) N濾過型STEと比較して,体系的に比較した.
温度範囲でThermus thermophilus chaperonin GroEL (800 kDa) の構造的整合性を評価するために,15N-TRO-STE実験の適用.

主要な成果:

(1) H-TRO-STEと (15) N-TRO-STEの実験は,さまざまな分子サイズでの拡散測定を評価するための堅実なプラットフォームを提供します.
大型のマクロ分子複合体を研究するために,15N-TRO-STEの有用性を実証し,25~60°CからGroELのテトラドカメラ構造の保存を示した.

結論:

開発されたTRO-STE NMR実験は,構造生物学におけるマクロ分子翻訳拡散を特徴づける能力を高めています.
これらの方法は,生理学的に関連する条件下で分子行動と構造的整合性の研究を促進します.

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