Magic Angle Spinning NMR of Proteins: High-Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and 1H Detection

Y Su, L Andreas, RG Griffin - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR studies of amyloid and membrane proteins and large
macromolecular complexes are an important new approach to structural biology. However …

New applications of solid-state NMR in structural biology

PCA van der Wel - Emerging topics in life sciences, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Various recent developments in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR)
spectroscopy have enabled an array of new insights regarding the structure, dynamics, and …

Dangerous liaisons between detergents and membrane proteins. The case of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2

M Zoonens, J Comer, S Masscheleyn… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The extraction of membrane proteins from their native environment by detergents is central
to their biophysical characterization. Recent studies have emphasized that detergents may …

Solid-state NMR structure determination from diagonal-compensated, sparsely nonuniform-sampled 4D proton–proton restraints

R Linser, B Bardiaux, LB Andreas… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report acquisition of diagonal-compensated protein structural restraints from four-
dimensional solid-state NMR spectra on extensively deuterated and 1H back-exchanged …

Amphipols outperform dodecylmaltoside micelles in stabilizing membrane protein structure in the gas phase

AN Calabrese, TG Watkinson, PJF Henderson… - Analytical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Noncovalent mass spectrometry (MS) is emerging as an invaluable technique to probe the
structure, interactions, and dynamics of membrane proteins (MPs). However, maintaining …

Dynamic nuclear polarization as an enabling technology for solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

AN Smith, JR Long - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Magic angle spinning (MAS) solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (ssNMR)
can yield unique and insightful information for complex systems; most notably structural and …

Structure determination of membrane proteins in their native phospholipid bilayer environment by rotationally aligned solid-state NMR spectroscopy

SJ Opella - Accounts of chemical research, 2013 - ACS Publications
One of the most important topics in experimental structural biology is determining the
structures of membrane proteins. These structures represent one-third of all of the …

Structure of CrgA, a cell division structural and regulatory protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in lipid bilayers

N Das, J Dai, I Hung, M Rajagopalan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The 93-residue transmembrane protein CrgA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a central
component of the divisome, a large macromolecular machine responsible for cell division …

Gating mechanism of aquaporin Z in synthetic bilayers and native membranes revealed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Y Zhao, H Xie, L Wang, Y Shen, W Chen… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Aquaporin Z (AqpZ) is an integral membrane protein that facilitates transport of water across
Escherichia coli cells with a high rate. Previously, R189, a highly conserved residue of the …

NMR structures of membrane proteins in phospholipid bilayers

J Radoicic, GJ Lu, SJ Opella - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Membrane proteins have always presented technical challenges for structural studies
because of their requirement for a lipid environment. Multiple approaches exist including X …