title: Peptide torsion angle measurements: effects of nondilute spin pairs on carbon-observed, deuterium-dephased PM5-REDOR.
abstract: Reintroducing dipolar coupling between spin-1/2 nuclei (e.g., (13)C, (15)N) and spin-1 (2)H, using phase-modulated deuterium dephasing pulses, provides a simple and efficient basis for obtaining peptide backbone torsion angles (phi, psi) in specific stable-isotope enriched samples. Multiple homonuclear spin-1/2 interactions due to isotopic enrichment can arise between neighboring molecules or within a multiply labeled protein after folding. The consequences of (13)C homonuclear interactions present during (13)C-observed, (2)H-dephased REDOR measurements are explored and the theoretical basis of the experimentally observed effects is investigated. Two tripeptides are taken to represent both the general case of (2)H(alpha)-alanine (in the tripeptide LAF) and the special case of (2)H(alpha)(2)-glycine (in the tripeptide LGF). The lyophilized tripeptides exhibit narrowed spectral linewidths over time due to reduced conformational dispersion. This is due to a hydration process whereby a small fraction of peptides is reorienting and the bulk peptide fraction undergoes a conformational change. The new molecular packing arrangement lacks homonuclear (13)C spin interactions, allowing determination of (phi, psi) backbone torsion angles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sack
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Balazs
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rahimipour
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vega
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D009842:Oligopeptides; C427444:leucyl-alanyl-phenylalanine; C427445:leucyl-glycyl-phenylalanine