NMR Assignment of the mTOR Domain Responsible for Rapamycin Binding |
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Authors: | Vaclav Veverka Gregor Lennie Tom Crabbe Ian Bird Richard J Taylor Mark D Carr |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Molecular Biology and Joint Center for Structural Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla California, 92037, USA;(2) Present address: Institut für Molekularbiologie und Biophysik, ETH Zürich, CH- 8093, Zürich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | A fully automated, NOE-based NMR structure determination of a uniformly 13C,15N-labeled protein was achieved in crude cell-extract, without purification of the overexpressed protein. Essentially complete
sequence-specific assignments were obtained using triple resonance experiments, based on the high intensity of the resonances
from the overexpressed protein relative to those of the background. For the collection of NOE distance constraints, efficient
discrimination between NOE cross peaks from the target protein and background signals was achieved using the programs ATNOS
and CANDID. In the iterative ATNOS/CANDID procedure, the identification of the desired protein NOEs is initially guided by
the self-consistency of the protein NOE-network. Although the intensities of the signals in this network vary over a wide
range, and are in many instances comparable to or smaller than those of the background, the first cycle of calculations resulted
in the correct global polypeptide fold, and the structure was then refined in six subsequent cycles using the intermediate
NMR structures for additional guidance. The experience gained with this work demonstrates that the ATNOS/CANDID procedure
for automatic protein structure determination is highly robust and reliable in the presence of intense background signals,
and might thus also represent a platform for future protein structure determinations in physiological fluids. |
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Keywords: | automated protein NMR structure determination with ATNOS and CANDID network anchoring structural proteomics Thermotoga maritima |
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