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High-accuracy residual 1HN-13C and 1HN-1HN dipolar couplings in perdeuterated proteins
Journal
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume
125
Number
1
Pages / Article-Number
44-5
Keywords
Amides/chemistry; Carbon Isotopes; Deuterium; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Biomolecular/*methods; Proteins/*chemistry
Abstract
Truncation by the presence of many short-range residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) hinders the observation of long-range RDCs in weakly aligned biomacromolecules. Perdeuteration of proteins followed by reprotonation of labile hydrogen positions greatly alleviates this problem. Here we show that for small perdeuterated proteins, a large number (up to 10 in protein G) of long-range RDCs to 13C and 1HN can be observed from individual amide protons. The 1HN <--> 13C RDCs comprise correlations to 13Calpha, 13Cbeta, and 13C' nuclei of the same and the preceding amino acid, as well as 13C' nuclei of hydrogen-bonded amino acids. The accuracy of the coupling constants is very high and defines individual internuclear distances to within few picometers. Deviations between measured RDC values and values predicted from the 1.1 A crystal structure of protein G are mainly found in two surface-exposed loop regions. The deviations show a strong correlation to the B-factor of the crystal structure.
