title: A simple method to predict protein flexibility using secondary chemical shifts.
abstract: Protein motions play a critical role in many biological processes, such as enzyme catalysis, allosteric regulation, antigen-antibody interactions, and protein-DNA binding. NMR spectroscopy occupies a unique place among methods for investigating protein dynamics due to its ability to provide site-specific information about protein motions over a large range of time scales. However, most NMR methods require a detailed knowledge of the 3D structure and/or the collection of additional experimental data (NOEs, T1, T2, etc.) to accurately measure protein dynamics. Here we present a simple method based on chemical shift data that allows accurate, quantitative, site-specific mapping of protein backbone mobility without the need of a three-dimensional structure or the collection and analysis of NMR relaxation data. Further, we show that this chemical shift method is able to quantitatively predict per-residue RMSD values (from both MD simulations and NMR structural ensembles) as well as model-free backbone order parameters.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Computing Science and Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E8.
authors.forename: Mark V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Berjanskii
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Wishart
mesh_terms: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes; D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins