title: Sensitivity enhancement of separated local field experiments: application to membrane proteins.
abstract: Separated local field (SLF) experiments have been used for almost three decades to obtain structural information in solid-state NMR. These experiments resolve chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) from dipole-dipole interactions (dipolar couplings, DC) in isolated spin systems. Both CSA and DC data can be converted into orientational constraints to elucidate the secondary structure and topology of membrane proteins in oriented lipid bilayers. Here, we propose a new suite of sensitivity enhanced SLF pulse sequences to measure CSA and DC for aligned membrane proteins and liquid crystalline molecules that will decrease the time needed for data acquisition. We demonstrate the efficacy of these new sensitivity enhanced experiments using both a single crystal of N-acetyl leucine and a single pass membrane protein sarcolipin reconstituted in aligned lipid bicelles. These results lay the groundwork for the routine application of this methodology for studying the structure and topology of membrane proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gopinath
authors.forename: Raffaello
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verardi
authors.forename: Nathaniel J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Traaseth
authors.forename: Gianluigi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Veglia
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013113:Spin Labels
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D013113:Spin Labels