Recent developments in solid-state magic-angle spinning, nuclear magnetic resonance of fully and significantly isotopically labelled peptides and proteins.
In recent years, a large number of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques have been developed and applied to the study of fully or significantly isotopically labelled ((13)C, (15)N or (13)C/(15)N) biomolecules. In the past few years, the first structures of (13)C/(15)N-labelled peptides, Gly-Ile and Met-Leu-Phe, and a protein, Src-homology 3 domain, were solved using magic-angle spinning NMR, without recourse to any structural information obtained from other methods. This progress has been made possible by the development of NMR experiments to assign solid-state spectra and experiments to extract distance and orientational information. Another key aspect to the success of solid-state NMR is the advances made in sample preparation. These improvements will be reviewed in this contribution. Future prospects for the application of solid-state NMR to interesting biological questions will also briefly be discussed.
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada. sstraus@chem.ubc.ca
Suzana K
SK
Straus
D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D018909:src Homology Domains / Q000235:genetics
D036022:Capsid Proteins; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes; D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins; C025668:coat protein, Bacteriophage M13