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GFT projection NMR spectroscopy for proteins in the solid state

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Recording of four-dimensional (4D) spectra for proteins in the solid state has opened new avenues to obtain virtually complete resonance assignments and three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins. As in solution state NMR, the sampling of three indirect dimensions leads per se to long minimal measurement time. Furthermore, artifact suppression in solid state NMR relies primarily on radio-frequency pulse phase cycling. For an n-step phase cycle, the minimal measurement times of both 3D and 4D spectra are increased n times. To tackle the associated ‘sampling problem’ and to avoid sampling limited data acquisition, solid state G-Matrix Fourier Transform (SS GFT) projection NMR is introduced to rapidly acquire 3D and 4D spectral information. Specifically, (4,3)D (HA)CANCOCX and (3,2)D (HACA)NCOCX were implemented and recorded for the 6 kDa protein GB1 within about 10% of the time required for acquiring the conventional congeners with the same maximal evolution times and spectral widths in the indirect dimensions. Spectral analysis was complemented by comparative analysis of expected spectral congestion in conventional and GFT NMR experiments, demonstrating that high spectral resolution of the GFT NMR experiments enables one to efficiently obtain nearly complete resonance assignments even for large proteins.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the National Institute of Health for funding through NIGMS NIGMS/Roadmap Initiative (R01GM075937 and R01GM073770 to C.R.) and the National Science Foundation (MCB 0817857 to T.S.), and Lindsay J. Sperling and Andrew J. Nieuwkoop for assistance in preparing the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    W. Trent Franks & Chad M. Rienstra

  2. Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA

    Hanudatta S. Atreya & Thomas Szyperski

  3. Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Chad M. Rienstra

  4. Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Chad M. Rienstra

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Trent Franks, W., Atreya, H.S., Szyperski, T. et al. GFT projection NMR spectroscopy for proteins in the solid state. J Biomol NMR 48, 213–223 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-010-9451-7

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