Fractional 13C enrichment of isolated carbons using [1-13C]- or [2-13C]-glucose facilitates the accurate measurement of dynamics at backbone Cα and side-chain methyl positions in proteins

Journal of Biomolecular NMR - Tập 38 - Trang 199-212 - 2007
Patrik Lundström1,2, Irina Bezsonova3,4, Silke Wiesner1,3, Mikael Akke5, Kaare Teilum5, D. Flemming Hansen1,2, Tommy Carstensen5, Lewis E. Kay1,2, Tomasz L. Religa6
1Department of Biochemistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2Departments of Medical Genetics and Chemistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
3Program in Molecular Structure and Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
4Department of Chemistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
5Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
6Medical Research Council Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, UK

Tóm tắt

A simple labeling approach is presented based on protein expression in [1-13C]- or [2-13C]-glucose containing media that produces molecules enriched at methyl carbon positions or backbone Cα sites, respectively. All of the methyl groups, with the exception of Thr and Ile(δ1) are produced with isolated 13C spins (i.e., no 13C–13C one bond couplings), facilitating studies of dynamics through the use of spin-spin relaxation experiments without artifacts introduced by evolution due to large homonuclear scalar couplings. Carbon-α sites are labeled without concomitant labeling at Cβ positions for 17 of the common 20 amino acids and there are no cases for which 13Cα−13CO spin pairs are observed. A large number of probes are thus available for the study of protein dynamics with the results obtained complimenting those from more traditional backbone 15N studies. The utility of the labeling is established by recording 13C R 1ρ and CPMG-based experiments on a number of different protein systems.

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