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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2017

Unequivocal determination of complex molecular structures using anisotropic NMR measurements.

Yizhou Liu, Josep Saurí, Emily Mevers, Mark W Peczuh, Henk Hiemstra, Jon Clardy, Gary E Martin, R Thomas Williamson

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yizhou LiuStructure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 2000 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1396-922X
Josep SauríStructure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Emily MeversDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Mark W PeczuhDepartment of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3060, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3028-6551
Henk HiemstraVan't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9514-3415
Jon ClardyDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Gary E MartinStructure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA. gary.martin2@merck.com robert.williamson2@merck.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0750-3041
R Thomas WilliamsonStructure Elucidation Group, Process and Analytical Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA. gary.martin2@merck.com robert.williamson2@merck.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7450-3135

Funding

Molecule-to-gene approaches to new natural productsR01GM086258 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CLARDY, JON · 2008 to 2016
$3.6M
Chemical biology of bacterial symbiontsR01AT009874 · NCCIH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CLARDY, JON · 2017 to 2019
$1.2M
NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT009874NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM086258
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assignment of complex molecular structures from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data can be prone to interpretational mistakes. Residual dipolar couplings and residual chemical shift anisotropy provide a spatial view of the relative orientations between bonds and chemical shielding tensors, respectively, regardless of separation. Consequently, these data constitute a reliable reporter of global structural validity. Anisotropic NMR parameters can be used to evaluate investigators' structure proposals or structures generated by computer-assisted structure elucidation. Application of the method to several complex structure assignment problems shows promising results that signal a potential paradigm shift from conventional NMR data interpretation, which may be of particular utility for compounds not amenable to x-ray crystallography.

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PMID28385960
PMCPMC6596297

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