title: Tailored HCCH-TOCSY experiment for resonance assignment in the proximity of a paramagnetic center.
abstract: The presence of a paramagnetic center may disturb both coherent and incoherent communication between nuclear spins that are affected, to some extent, by the hyperfine interaction. This is a limiting factor to an extensive use of paramagnetic probes in NMR spectroscopy to enhance partial alignment and to exploit cross correlation effects and pseudocontact shifts. We propose here an HCCH-TOCSY experiment tailored to identify spin systems involving resonances that are partly or completely affected by hyperfine interaction. The efficiency of polarization transfer steps when fast relaxing nuclei are involved is discussed. The sequence is tested for the protein Calbindin D(9k), in which one of the two native Ca2+ ions is replaced by the paramagnetic Ce3+ ion as well as for the oxidized form of cytochrome b(562).
authors.affiliation: Magnetic Resonance Center, University of Florence, Via L. Sacconi 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy. piccioli@cerm.unifi.it
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piccioli
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Poggi
mesh_terms: D064026:Calbindins; D002118:Calcium / Q000737:chemistry; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D002586:Cesium / Q000737:chemistry; D003573:Cytochrome b Group / Q000737:chemistry; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D064030:S100 Calcium Binding Protein G / Q000032:analysis*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D064026:Calbindins; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D003573:Cytochrome b Group; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D064030:S100 Calcium Binding Protein G; D002586:Cesium; C017850:cytochrome b562, E coli; D002118:Calcium