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ReviewFrontiers in molecular biosciences2018

Troubleshooting Guide to Expressing Intrinsically Disordered Proteins for Use in NMR Experiments.

Steffen P Graether

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Review in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Steffen P GraetherDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
University of Guelph · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) represent a structural class of proteins that do not have a well-defined, 3D fold in solution, and often have little secondary structure. To characterize their function and molecular mechanism, it is helpful to examine their structure using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which can report on properties, such as residual structure (at both the secondary and tertiary levels), ligand binding affinity, and the effect of ligand binding on IDP structure, all on a per residue basis. This brief review reports on the common problems and decisions that are involved when preparing a disordered protein for NMR studies. The paper covers gene design, expression host choice, protein purification, and the initial NMR experiments that are performed. While many of these steps are essentially identical to those for ordered proteins, a few key differences are highlighted, including the extreme sensitivity of IDPs to proteolytic cleavage, the ability to use denaturing conditions without having to refold the protein, the optimal chromatographic system choice, and the challenges of quantifying an IDP. After successful purification, characterization by NMR can be done using the standard

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expressionintrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)isotopic labelingNMRoptimizationpurificationstructure

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