scholarly journals Solid-State NMR Reveals the Hydrophobic-Core Location of Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers in Biomembranes

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (23) ◽  
pp. 8087-8097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter E. S. Smith ◽  
Jeffrey R. Brender ◽  
Ulrich H. N. Dürr ◽  
Jiadi Xu ◽  
Douglas G. Mullen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Solid State Nmr ◽  
Hydrophobic Core

scholarly journals Atomic-resolution structure of cytoskeletal bactofilin by solid-state NMR

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. e1501087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaowei Shi ◽  
Pascal Fricke ◽  
Lin Lin ◽  
Veniamin Chevelkov ◽  
Melanie Wegstroth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Solid State Nmr ◽  
Caulobacter Crescentus ◽  
Heavy Atom ◽  
Cytoskeletal Proteins ◽  
Atomic Resolution ◽  
Hydrophobic Core ◽  
X Ray Crystallography ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Resolution Structure

Bactofilins are a recently discovered class of cytoskeletal proteins of which no atomic-resolution structure has been reported thus far. The bacterial cytoskeleton plays an essential role in a wide range of processes, including morphogenesis, cell division, and motility. Among the cytoskeletal proteins, the bactofilins are bacteria-specific and do not have a eukaryotic counterpart. The bactofilin BacA of the speciesCaulobacter crescentusis not amenable to study by x-ray crystallography or solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) because of its inherent noncrystallinity and insolubility. We present the atomic structure of BacA calculated from solid-state NMR–derived distance restraints. We show that the core domain of BacA forms a right-handed β helix with six windings and a triangular hydrophobic core. The BacA structure was determined to 1.0 Å precision (heavy-atom root mean square deviation) on the basis of unambiguous restraints derived from four-dimensional (4D) HN-HN and 2D C-C NMR spectra.

scholarly journals Structure and Orientation of Pardaxin Determined by NMR Experiments in Model Membranes

2004 ◽  
Vol 279 (44) ◽  
pp. 45815-45823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Porcelli ◽  
Bethany Buck ◽  
Dong-Kuk Lee ◽  
Kevin J. Hallock ◽  
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Lipid Bilayers ◽  
Lipid Membranes ◽  
Solid State Nmr ◽  
Double Resonance ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Solution Nmr ◽  
Helical Conformation ◽  
Hydrophobic Core ◽  
Nmr Studies

Pardaxins are a class of ichthyotoxic peptides isolated from fish mucous glands. Pardaxins physically interact with cell membranes by forming pores or voltage-gated ion channels that disrupt cellular functions. Here we report the high-resolution structure of synthetic pardaxin Pa4 in sodium dodecylphosphocholine micelles, as determined by1H solution NMR spectroscopy. The peptide adopts a bend-helix-bend-helix motif with an angle between the two structure helices of 122 ± 9°, making this structure substantially different from the one previously determined in organic solvents. In addition, paramagnetic solution NMR experiments on Pa4 in micelles reveal that except for the C terminus, the peptide is not solvent-exposed. These results are complemented by solid-state NMR experiments on Pa4 in lipid bilayers. In particular,13C-15N rotational echo double-resonance experiments in multilamellar vesicles support the helical conformation of the C-terminal segment, whereas2H NMR experiments show that the peptide induces considerable disorder in both the head-groups and the hydrophobic core of the bilayers. These solid-state NMR studies indicate that the C-terminal helix has a transmembrane orientation in DMPC bilayers, whereas in POPC bilayers, this domain is heterogeneously oriented on the lipid surface and undergoes slow motion on the NMR time scale. These new data help explain how the non-covalent interactions of Pa4 with lipid membranes induce a stable secondary structure and provide an atomic view of the membrane insertion process of Pa4.

A useful tool for the elaboration of new solid-state NMR experiments: PULSAR

1995 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 1939-1942 ◽  
Author(s):  
JP Amoureux ◽  
C Fernandez ◽  
Y Dumazy
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Solid State Nmr

Quantitative analysis by 13C solid-state NMR of eumelanins

1994 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 881-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Hervé ◽  
J Hirschinger ◽  
P Granger ◽  
P Gilard ◽  
N Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Solid State ◽  
Solid State Nmr
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