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ArticleMethods (San Diego, Calif.)2018

Theory and practice of using solvent paramagnetic relaxation enhancement to characterize protein conformational dynamics.

Zhou Gong, Charles D Schwieters, Chun Tang

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  15. Atomic view of cosolute-induced protein denaturation probed by NMR solvent paramagnetic relaxation enhancement.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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Zhou GongCAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, and National Center for Magnetic Resonance at Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430071, China.
Charles D SchwietersOffice of Intramural Research, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Building 12A, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States.
Chun TangCAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, and National Center for Magnetic Resonance at Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430071, China. Electronic address: tanglab@wipm.ac.cn.

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Biomedical ImagingZIACT000090 · CIT · CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY · PI TRUS, BENES L · 2009 to 2018
$7.8M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 CT999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) has been established as a powerful tool in NMR for investigating protein structure and dynamics. The PRE is usually measured with a paramagnetic probe covalently attached at a specific site of an otherwise diamagnetic protein. The present work provides the numerical formulation for probing protein structure and conformational dynamics based on the solvent PRE (sPRE) measurement, using two alternative approaches. An inert paramagnetic cosolute randomly collides with the protein, and the resulting sPRE manifests the relative solvent exposure of protein nuclei. To make the back-calculated sPRE values most consistent with the observed values, the protein structure is either refined against the sPRE, or an ensemble of conformers is selected from a pre-generated library using a Monte Carlo algorithm. The ensemble structure comprises either N conformers of equal occupancy, or two conformers with different relative populations. We demonstrate the sPRE method using GB1, a structurally rigid protein, and calmodulin, a protein comprising two domains and existing in open and closed states. The sPRE can be computed with a stand-alone program for rapid evaluation, or with the invocation of a module in the latest release of the structure calculation software Xplor-NIH. As a label-free method, the sPRE measurement can be readily integrated with other biophysical techniques. The current limitations of the sPRE method are also discussed, regarding accurate measurement and theoretical calculation, model selection and suitable timescale.

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Monte Carlo MethodElectron Spin Resonance SpectroscopyNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularProtein ConformationProteinsProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryProteinsMolecular dynamics simulationMonte Carlo algorithmParamagnetic relaxation enhancementProtein cosoluteStructure refinementXplor-NIH

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PMID29656079
PMCPMC6133729

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