scholarly journals Conformational dynamics of yeast calmodulin in the Ca2+-bound state probed using NMR relaxation dispersion

FEBS Letters ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 586 (16) ◽  
pp. 2548-2554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Ogura ◽  
Hideyasu Okamura ◽  
Masato Katahira ◽  
Etsuko Katoh ◽  
Fuyuhiko Inagaki
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgenii L. Kovrigin

ABSTRACT:In this manuscript, I am proposing an approach for identification of correlated exchange in proteins via analysis of the NMR relaxation dispersion data. For a set of spins experiencing exchange, every relaxation dispersion datasets is fit individually and then—globally while paired with every other dataset. The corrected Akaike’ s Information Criteria (AICc) for individual and global fits are used to evaluate the likelihood of two spins to report on the same dynamic event. Application of hierarchical cluster analysis reveals correlated spin groups using the difference in AICcs as a measure of similarity within the pairs. This approach to detection of correlated dynamics is independent of accuracy of best-fit parameters rendering it less sensitive to experimental noise. High throughput and the absence of the operator bias might make it applicable to a relatively lower quality NMR relaxation dispersion data from large and poorly soluble systems.


2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Akke

Protein conformational dynamics can be critical for ligand binding in two ways that relate to kinetics and thermodynamics respectively. First, conformational transitions between different substates can control access to the binding site (kinetics). Secondly, differences between free and ligand-bound states in their conformational fluctuations contribute to the entropy of ligand binding (thermodynamics). In the present paper, I focus on the second topic, summarizing our recent results on the role of conformational entropy in ligand binding to Gal3C (the carbohydrate-recognition domain of galectin-3). NMR relaxation experiments provide a unique probe of conformational entropy by characterizing bond-vector fluctuations at atomic resolution. By monitoring differences between the free and ligand-bound states in their backbone and side chain order parameters, we have estimated the contributions from conformational entropy to the free energy of binding. Overall, the conformational entropy of Gal3C increases upon ligand binding, thereby contributing favourably to the binding affinity. Comparisons with the results from isothermal titration calorimetry indicate that the conformational entropy is comparable in magnitude to the enthalpy of binding. Furthermore, there are significant differences in the dynamic response to binding of different ligands, despite the fact that the protein structure is virtually identical in the different protein–ligand complexes. Thus both affinity and specificity of ligand binding to Gal3C appear to depend in part on subtle differences in the conformational fluctuations that reflect the complex interplay between structure, dynamics and ligand interactions.


2006 ◽  
Vol 363 (5) ◽  
pp. 958-976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Neudecker ◽  
Arash Zarrine-Afsar ◽  
Wing-Yiu Choy ◽  
D. Ranjith Muhandiram ◽  
Alan R. Davidson ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsuyoshi Konuma ◽  
Aritaka Nagadoi ◽  
Jun-ichi Kurita ◽  
Takahisa Ikegami

Nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation dispersion (rd) experiments provide kinetics and thermodynamics information of molecules undergoing conformational exchange. Rd experiments often use a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) pulse train equally separated by a spin-state selective inversion element (U-element). Even with measurement parameters carefully set, however, parts of 1H–15N correlations sometimes exhibit large artifacts that may hamper the subsequent analyses. We analyzed such artifacts with a combination of NMR measurements and simulation. We found that particularly the lowest CPMG frequency (νcpmg) can also introduce large artifacts into amide 1H–15N and aromatic 1H–13C correlations whose 15N/13C resonances are very close to the carrier frequencies. The simulation showed that the off-resonance effects and miscalibration of the CPMG π pulses generate artifact maxima at resonance offsets of even and odd multiples of νcpmg, respectively. We demonstrate that a method once introduced into the rd experiments for molecules having residual dipolar coupling significantly reduces artifacts. In the method the 15N/13C π pulse phase in the U-element is chosen between x and y. We show that the correctly adjusted sequence is tolerant to miscalibration of the CPMG π pulse power as large as ±10% for most amide 15N and aromatic 13C resonances of proteins.


2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 561-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Rovny ◽  
Robert L. Blum ◽  
J. Patrick Loria ◽  
Sean E. Barrett

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (13) ◽  
pp. 7105-7117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Chieh Chu ◽  
Raphael Plangger ◽  
Christoph Kreutz ◽  
Hashim M Al-Hashimi

AbstractThe HIV-1 Rev response element (RRE) RNA element mediates the nuclear export of intron containing viral RNAs by forming an oligomeric complex with the viral protein Rev. Stem IIB and nearby stem II three-way junction nucleate oligomerization through cooperative binding of two Rev molecules. Conformational flexibility at this RRE region has been shown to be important for Rev binding. However, the nature of the flexibility has remained elusive. Here, using NMR relaxation dispersion, including a new strategy for directly observing transient conformational states in large RNAs, we find that stem IIB alone or when part of the larger RREII three-way junction robustly exists in dynamic equilibrium with non-native excited state (ES) conformations that have a combined population of ∼20%. The ESs disrupt the Rev-binding site by changing local secondary structure, and their stabilization via point substitution mutations decreases the binding affinity to the Rev arginine-rich motif (ARM) by 15- to 80-fold. The ensemble clarifies the conformational flexibility observed in stem IIB, reveals long-range conformational coupling between stem IIB and the three-way junction that may play roles in cooperative Rev binding, and also identifies non-native RRE conformational states as new targets for the development of anti-HIV therapeutics.


2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (35) ◽  
pp. 18781-18787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Neugebauer ◽  
Jan G. Krummenacker ◽  
Vasyl P. Denysenkov ◽  
Christina Helmling ◽  
Claudio Luchinat ◽  
...  

Dynamic nuclear polarization and NMR relaxation dispersion measurements have been performed on liquid solutions of TEMPOL radicals in solvents with different viscosities at a high magnetic field of 9.2 T. The results indicate that fast dynamics significantly contribute to DNP enhancements at high fields.


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