Assignment of aliphatic side-chain 1HN/15N resonances in perdeuterated proteins |
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Authors: | Bennett T. Farmer II Ronald A. Venters |
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Affiliation: | (1) Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, P.O. Box 4000, 08543-4000 Princeton, NJ, USA;(2) Duke University NMR Center, Duke University Medical Center, P.O. Box 3711, 27710 Durham, NC, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary The perdeuteration of aliphatic sites in large proteins has been shown to greatly facilitate the process of sequential backbone and side-chain 13C assignments and has also been utilized in obtaining long-range NOE distance restraints for structure calculations. To obtain the maximum information from a 4D 15N/15N-separated NOESY, as many main-chain and side-chain 1HN/15N resonances as possible must be assigned. Traditionally, only backbone amide 1HN/15N resonances are assigned by correlation experiments, whereas slowly exchanging side-chain amide, amino, and guanidino protons are assigned by NOEs to side-chain aliphatic protons. In a perdeuterated protein, however, there is a minimal number of such protons. We have therefore developed several gradient-enhanced and sensitivity-enhanced pulse sequences, containing water-flipback pulses, to provide through-bond correlations of the aliphatic side-chain 1HN/15N resonances to side-chain 13C resonances with high sensitivity: NH2-filtered 2D 1H-15N HSQC (H2N-HSQC), 3D H2N(CO)C/ and 3D H2N(COC/)C/ for glutamine and asparagine side-chain amide groups; 2D refocused H(N/)C/ and H(N/C/)C/ for arginine side-chain amino groups and non-refocused versions for lysine side-chain amino groups; and 2D refocused H(N)C and nonrefocused H(N.)C for arginine side-chain guanidino groups. These pulse sequences have been applied to perdeuterated 13C-/15N-labeled human carbonic anhydrase II (2H-HCA II). Because more than 95% of all side-chain 13C resonances in 2H-HCA II have already been assigned with the C(CC)(CO)NH experiment, the assignment of the side-chain 1HN/15N resonances has been straightforward using the pulse sequences mentioned above. The importance of assigning these side-chain HN protons has been demonstrated by recent studies in which the calculation of protein global folds was simulated using only 1HN-1HN NOE restraints. In these studies, the inclusion of NOE restraints to side-chain HN protons significantly improved the quality of the global fold that could be determined for a perdeuterated protein [R.A. Venters et al. (1995) J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 9592–9593].To whom correspondence should be addressed. |
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Keywords: | Perdeuteration Side-chain 1HN/15N assignment Human carbonic anhydrase II 3D NMR |
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