title: Natural abundance 15N NMR assignments delineate structural differences between intact and reactive-site hydrolyzed Cucurbita maxima trypsin inhibitor III.
abstract: 15N NMR assignments were made to the backbone amide nitrogen atoms at natural isotopic abundance of intact and reactive-site (Arg5-Ile6) hydrolyzed Cucurbita maxima trypsin inhibitor III (CMTI-III and CMTI-III*, respectively) by means of 2D proton-detected heteronuclear single bond chemical shift correlation (HSBC) spectroscopy, utilizing the previously made sequence-specific 1H NMR assignments (Krishnamoorthi et al. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 898-904). Comparison of the 15N chemical shifts of the two forms of the inhibitor molecule revealed significant changes not only for residues located near the reactive-site region, but also for those distantly located. Residues Cys3, Arg5, Leu7, Met8, Cys10, Cys16, Glu19, His25, Tyr27, Cys28 and Gly29 showed significant chemical shift changes ranging from 0.3 to 6.1 ppm, thus indicating structural perturbations that were transmitted throughout the molecule. These findings confirm the earlier conclusions based on 1H NMR investigations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Krishnamoorthi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nemmers
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tobias
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D004187:Disaccharides; D005936:Glucans; D006868:Hydrolysis; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D010945:Plants, Edible / Q000737:chemistry*; D014361:Trypsin Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004187:Disaccharides; D005936:Glucans; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010940:Plant Proteins; D014361:Trypsin Inhibitors; C031809:trypsin inhibitor, Cucurbita sp.; C010913:N,N-diacetylchitobiose