title: Evidence of slow motions by cross-correlated chemical shift modulation in deuterated and protonated proteins.
abstract: Cross-correlated fluctuations of isotropic chemical shifts can provide evidence for slow motions in biomolecules. Slow side-chain dynamics have been investigated in (15)N and (13)C enriched ubiquitin by monitoring the relaxation of C(alpha)-C(beta) two-spin coherences (Frueh et al., 2001). This method, which had hitherto been demonstrated only for protonated ubiquitin, has now been applied to both protonated and deuterated proteins. Deuteration reduces the dipole-dipole contributions to the DD/DD cross-correlation, thus facilitating the observation of subtle effects due to cross-correlation of the fluctuations of the isotropic (13)C chemical shifts. The decays of double- and zero-quantum coherences are significantly slower in the deuterated protein than in the protonated sample. Slow motions are found both in loops and in secondary structure elements.
authors.affiliation: Institut de chimie moléculaire et biologique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, BCH, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Liliya
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vugmeyster
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perazzolo
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wist
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frueh
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bodenhausen
mesh_terms: D016880:Anisotropy; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D003903:Deuterium; D009038:Motion; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D011522:Protons
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D011522:Protons; D003903:Deuterium