title: Heteronuclear relaxation in time-dependent spin systems: (15)N-T1 (rho) dispersion during adiabatic fast passage.
abstract: A novel NMR experiment comprising adiabatic fast passage techniques for the measurement of heteronuclear self-relaxation rates in fully 15N-enriched proteins is described. Heteronuclear self-relaxation is monitored by performing adiabatic fast passage (AFP) experiments at variable adiabaticity (e.g., variation of RF spin-lock field intensity). The experiment encompasses gradient- selection and sensitivity-enhancement. It is shown that transverse relaxation rates derived with this method are in good agreement with the ones measured by the classical Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) sequences. An application of this method to the study of the carboxyl-terminal LIM domain of quail cysteine and glycine-rich protein qCRP2(LIM2) is presented.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A- 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Konrat
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tollinger