PHASE-SENSITIVELY DETECTED REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR RAPID CHEMICAL SHIFT ASSIGNMENT AND SECONDARY STRUCTURE DETERMINATION OF PROTEINS
The present invention discloses eleven reduced dimensionality (RD) triple resonance nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments for measuring chemical shift values of certain nuclei in a protein molecule, where the chemical shift values encoded in a peak pair of an NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR and RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiments are designed to yield “sequential” connectivities, while the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β, CO,HA NMR and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiments provide “intraresidue” connectivities. The RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR, RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR, and RD 2D H,C,H-COSY NMR experiments allow one to obtain assignments for aliphatic and aromatic side chain chemical shifts, while the RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment provide information for the aromatic side chain chemical shifts. In addition, methods of conducting suites of RD triple resonance NMR experiments for high-throughput resonance assignment of proteins and determination of secondary structure elements are disclosed.
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The present invention is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/628,818, filed Jul. 28, 2003, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/399,332, filed Jul. 26, 2002, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
This invention arose out of research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. MCB 0075773) and National Institutes of Health (Grant No. P50 GM62413-01). The U.S. Government may have certain rights in this invention.
FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to methods of using phase sensitively-detected reduced dimensionality nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for obtaining chemical shift assignment and for structure determination of proteins.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe use of triple resonance (TR) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments for the resonance assignment of polypeptide chains via heteronuclear scalar connectivities (Montelione et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111:5474-5475 (1989); Montelione et al., J. Magn. Reson., 87:183-188 (1989); Kay et al., J. Magn. Reson., 89:496-514 (1990); Ikura et al., Biochemistry, 29:4659-8979 (1990); Edison et al., Methods Enzymol., 239:3-79 (1994)) is a standard approach which neatly complements the assignment protocol based on 1H—1H nuclear Overhauser effects (NOE) (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York (1986)). In addition, triple resonance NMR spectra are highly amenable to a fast automated analysis (Friedrichs et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 4:703-726 (1994); Zimmerman et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 4:241-256 (1994); Bartels et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 7:207-213 (1996); Morelle et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 5:154-160 (1995); Buchler et al., J. Magn. Reson., 125:34-42 (1997); Lukin et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 9:151-166 (1997)), yielding the 13Cα/β chemical shifts at an early stage of the assignment procedure. This enables both the identification of regular secondary structure elements without reference to NOEs (Spera et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113: 5490-5491 (1991)) and the derivation of (φ,ψ)-angle constraints which serve to reduce the number of cycles consisting of nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (NOESY) peak assignment and structure calculation (Luginbühl et al., J. Magn. Reson., B 109:229-233 (1995)).
NMR assignments are prerequisite for NMR-based structural biology (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acid, Wiley:New York (1986)) and, thus, for highthroughput (HTP) structure determination in structural genomics (Rost, Structure, 6:259-263 (1998); Montelione et al., Nature Struct. Biol., 6:11-12. (1999); Burley, Nature Struc Biol., 7:932-934 (2000)) and for exploring structure-activity relationships (SAR) by NMR for drug discovery (Shuker et al., Science, 274:1531-1534 (1996)). The aims of structural genomics are to (i) explore the naturally occurring “protein fold space” and (ii) contribute to the characterization of function through the assignment of atomic resolution three-dimensional (3D) structures to proteins. It is now generally acknowledged that NMR will play an important role in structural genomics (Montelione et al., Nature Struc. Biol., 7:982-984 (2000)). The resulting demand for HTP structure determination requires fast and automated NMR data collection and analysis protocols (Moseley et al., Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol., 9:635-642 (1999)).
The establishment of a HTP NMR structural genomics pipeline requires two key objectives in data collection. Firstly, the measurement time should be minimized in order to (i) lower the cost per structure and (ii) relax the constraint that NMR samples need to be stable over a long period of measurement time. The recent introduction of commercial cryogenic probes (Styles et al., J. Magn. Reson., 60:397-404 (1984); Flynn et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122:4823-4824 (2000)) promises to reduce measurement times by about a factor of ten or more, and will greatly impact the realization of this first objective. Secondly, reliable automated spectral analysis requires recording of a “redundant” set of multidimensional NMR experiments each affording good resolution (which requires appropriately long maximal evolution times in all indirect dimensions). Concomitantly, it is desirable to keep the total number of NMR spectra small in order to minimize “interspectral” variations of chemical shift measurements, which may impede automated spectral analysis. Straightforward consideration of this second objective would suggest increasing the dimensionality of the spectra, preferably by implementing a suite of four- or even higher-dimensional NMR experiments. Importantly, however, the joint realization of the first and second objectives is tightly limited by the rather large lower bounds of higher-dimensional TR NMR measurement times if appropriately long maximal evolution times are chosen.
Hence, “sampling limited” and “sensitivity limited” data collection regimes are distinguished, depending on whether the sampling of the indirect dimensions or the sensitivity of the multidimensional NMR experiments “per se” determines the minimally achievable measurement time. As a matter of fact, the ever increasing performance of NMR spectrometers will soon lead to the situation where, for many protein samples, the sensitivity of the NMR spectrometers do not constitute the prime bottleneck determining minimal measurement times. Instead, the minimal measurement times encountered for recording conventional higher-dimensional NMR schemes will be “sampling limited,” particularly as high sensitivity cryoprobes become generally available. As structure determinations of proteins rely on nearly complete assignment of chemical shifts, which are obtained using multidimensional 13C, 15N, 1H-TR NMR experiments (Montelione et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111:5474-5475 (1989); Montelione, et al., J. Magn. Reson., 87:183-188 (1989); Ikura et al., Biochemistry, 29:4659-8979 (1990)), the development of TR NMR techniques that avoid the sampling limited regime represents a key challenge for future biomolecular NMR methods development.
Reduced dimensionality (RD) TR NMR experiments (Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:127-132 (1993); Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:9307-9308 (1993); Szyperski et al., J. Magn. Reson., B 105:188-191 (1994); Brutscher et al., J. Magn. Reson., B 105:77-82 (1994); Szyperski et al., J. Magn. Reson., B 108: 197-203 (1995); Brutscher et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 5:202-206 (1995); Löhr et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 6:189-197 (1995); Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:8146-8147 (1996); Szyperski et al., J. Magn. Reson., 28:228-232 (1997); Bracken et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 9:94-100 (1997); Sklenar et al., J. Magn. Reson., 130:119-124 (1998); Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 11:387-405 (1998)), designed for simultaneous frequency labeling of two spin types in a single indirect dimension, offer a viable strategy to circumvent recording NMR spectra in a sampling limited fashion. RD NMR is based on a projection technique for reducing the spectral dimensionality of TR experiments: the chemical shifts of the projected dimension give rise to a cosine-modulation of the transfer amplitude, yielding in-phase peak pairs encoding n chemical shifts in a n−1 dimensional spectrum (Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:127-132 (1993); Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:9307-9308 (1993)). As a key result, this allows recording projected four-dimensional (4D) NMR experiments with maximal evolution times typically achieved in the corresponding conventional 3D NMR experiments (Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:127-132 (1993); Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:9307-9308 (1993); Szyperski et al., J. Magn. Reson. B 105:188-191 (1994); Szyperski et al., J. Magn. Reson., B 108: 197-203 (1995); Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:8146-8147 (1996); Szyperski et al., J. Magn. Reson., 28:228-232 (1997); Bracken et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 9:94-100 (1997); Sklenar et al., J. Magn. Reson., 130:119-124 (1998); Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 11:387-405 (1998)). Furthermore, axial coherences, arising from either incomplete insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer (INEPT) or heteronuclear magnetization, can be observed as peaks located at the center of the in-phase peak pairs (Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:8146-8147 (1996)). This allows both the unambiguous assignment of multiple doublets with degenerate chemical shifts in the other dimensions and the identification of peak pairs by symmetrization of spectral strips about the position of the central peak (Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:8146-8147 (1996); Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 11:387-405 (1998)). Hence, observation of central peaks not only restores the dispersion of the parent, higher-dimensional experiment, but also provides access to reservoir of axial peak magnetization (Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:8146-8147 (1996)). Historically, RD NMR experiments were first designed to simultaneously recruit both 1H and heteronuclear magnetization (Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:8146-8147 (1996)) for signal detection, a feature that has also gained interest for improving transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy (TROSY) pulse schemes (Pervushin et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 94:12366-12371 (1997); Salzmann et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121:844-848 (1999); Pervushin et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 12:345-348, (1998)). Moreover, RD two-spin coherence NMR spectroscopy (Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:127-132 (1993)) subsequently also called zero-quantum/double-quantum (ZQ/DQ) NMR spectroscopy (Rexroth et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 17:10389-10390 (1995)), served as a valuable radio-frequency (r.f.) pulse module for measurement of scalar coupling constants (Rexroth et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 17: 10389-10390 (1995)) and cross-correlated heteronuclear relaxation (Reif et al., Science, 276:1230-1233 (1997); Yang et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121:3555-3556 (1999); Chiarparin et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122:1758-1761 (2000); Brutscher et al., J. Magn. Reson., 130:346-351 (1998); Brutscher, Concepts Magn. Reson., 122:207-229 (2000)).
Recently, a suite of RD 13C,15N,1H-triple resonance NMR experiments was presented for rapid and complete protein resonance assignment (Szyperski et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99:8009-8014 (2002)). Even when using short measurement times, these experiments allow one to retain the high spectral resolution required for efficient automated analysis. “Sampling limited” and “sensitivity limited” data collection regimes were defined, respectively, depending on whether the sampling of the indirect dimensions or the sensitivity of a multidimensional NMR experiments per se determines the minimally required measurement time. It was shown that RD NMR spectroscopy is a powerful approach to avoid the “sampling limited regime”, i.e., a standard set of experiments allows one to effectively adapt minimal measurement times to sensitivity requirements. It would be advantageous to implement those RD NMR experiments in a manner that allows frequency discrimination of the projected chemical shifts.
The present invention is directed to achieving these objectives.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) HA,CA,(CO),N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having two consecutive amino acid residues, i−1 and i: (1) an α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1; (2) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi; (3) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (4) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, where the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1, of amino acid residue i−1 are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi of amino acid residue i, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the 13Cαi−1 chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cα) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with an anti-phase peak pair derived from the sine modulating, where (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hai−1 and 13Cαi−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hαi−1 in a phase sensitive manner.
The present invention also relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having two consecutive amino acid residues, i−1 and i: (1) aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1; (2) aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1; (3) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (4) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, where the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 of amino acid residue i−1 are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi, of amino acid residue i, under conditions effective (1) to generate a NMR signal encoding the chemical shifts of 13Calii−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cali) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift of 1HNi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Calii−1 in t1(13Cali) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 15 Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cali), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Halii−1 in a phase sensitive manner.
Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having an amino acid residue, i: (1) a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi; (2) a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi; (3) an α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi; (4) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi; and (5) a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i, where the chemical shift values of 1Hαi/13Cαi, and 1Hβi/13Cβi which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi, 1Hβi, 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 13C′i, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 13C′i in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα/β) and t2(13C′), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hαi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hα), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cαi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi, respectively. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 13C′i and 1Hαi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13C′) and ω3(1Hα), respectively, and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pairs, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi in a phase sensitive manner.
A further aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having an amino acid residue, i: (1) a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi; (2) a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi; (3) an α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi; (4) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi; (5) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (6) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HN, where the chemical shift values of 1Hαi/13Cαi and 1Hαi/13Cβi, which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi, 1Hβi, 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi, in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi, respectively. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cαi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pairs, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi in a phase sensitive manner.
The present invention also relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,C,H-COSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, 1Hn, and 13Cn of a protein molecule where m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups that are linked by a single covalent carbon-carbon bond in an amino acid residue, where the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm, which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hn and 13Cn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn, in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 13Cn and 1Hn are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13Cn) and ω3(1Hn), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,C,H-TOCSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, 1Hn, and 13Cn of a protein molecule where m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups that may or may not be directly linked by a single covalent carbon-carbon bond in an amino acid residue, where the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hn and 13Cn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 13Cn and 1Hn are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13Cn) and ω3(1Hn), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
A further aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality two-dimensional (2D) HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule: (1) a β-proton of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 1Hβ; (2) a β-carbon of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 13Cβ; and (3) a δ-proton of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδ, where the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ which are encoded in a peak pair of a 2D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 1H67, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cβ in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t1(13Cβ), and the chemical shift value of 1Hδ in a direct time domain dimension, t2(1H67), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cβ in t1(13Cβ) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hβ. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with an anti-phase peak pair derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hδ is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hδ), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cβ), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hβ in a phase sensitive manner.
The present invention also relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality two-dimensional (2D) H,C,H-COSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, and 1Hn of a protein molecule where m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups in an amino acid residue, where the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 2D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 1Hn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cm in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t1(13Cm), and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t2(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hn is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hn), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of an α-proton, 1Hα, an α-carbon, 13Cα, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hα and 13Cα which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD three-dimensional (3D) HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HN and (2) a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
Yet another aspect of the present invention relates to a method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of a β-proton, 1Hβ, a β-carbon, 13Cβ, an α-proton, 1Hα, an α-carbon, 13Cα, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hα/β and 13Cα/β which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β (CO)NHN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hβi−1, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cβi−1, the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β, N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1, and the α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/βi−1, with the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi and 13Cα/βi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi−1 and 13Cα/βi−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
A further aspect of the present invention involves a method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of aliphatic protons, 1Hali, aliphatic carbons, 13Cali, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1 the aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D Hα/β, Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hali, 13Cali, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1, and the α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/βi−1, with the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi and 13Cα/βi of amino acid residue i, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
The present invention also relates to a method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of aliphatic protons, 1Haali, aliphatic carbons, 13Cali, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1, the aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HN and (2) a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hali, 13Cali, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, and the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
Another aspect of the present invention involves a method for obtaining assignments of chemical shift values of 1H, 13C and 15N of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting four reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1H and 13C which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner and (1) a first experiment is selected from a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, a RD 3D HA, CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, or a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment for obtaining sequential correlations of chemical shift values; (2) a second experiment is selected from a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, a RD 3D Hα/β, Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, or a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment for obtaining intraresidue correlations of chemical shift values; (3) a third experiment is a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment for obtaining assignments of sidechain chemical shift values; and (4) a fourth experiment is a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment for obtaining assignments of aromatic sidechain chemical shift values.
The present invention enables one to record an entire suite of RD NMR experiments used for obtaining chemical shift assignments and secondary structure determination of a protein molecule in a manner that enables frequency discrimination for the projected chemical shift and allows one to place the two peaks forming a peak pair into separate spectra. The frequency discrimination allows one to place the radiofrequency carrier in the center of the projected chemical shift range.
The present invention discloses eleven RD TR NMR experiments where the chemical shift values encoded in a peak pair of an NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The present invention also discloses different combinations of those phase-sensitively detected RD NMR experiments which allow one to obtain sequential backbone chemical shift assignments for determining the secondary structure of a protein molecule and nearly complete assignments of chemical shift values for a protein molecule including aliphatic and aromatic sidechain spin systems.
The basic acquisition principle for recording edited, phase sensitive RD NMR spectra is illustrated in
The RD NMR experiments are grouped accordingly in Table 1, which lists for each experiment (i) the nuclei for which the chemical shifts are measured, (ii) if and how the central peaks are acquired and (iii) additional notable technical features. State-of-the art implementations (Cavanagh et al., Protein NMR Spectroscopy, Academic Press, San Diego, (1996); Kay, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:2055-2057 (1993); Grzesiek et al., J. Magn Reson., 99:201-207 (1992); Montelione et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114:10974-10975 (1992); Boucher et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 2:631-637 (1992); Yamazaki et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:11054-11055 (1993); Zerbe et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 7:99-106 (1996); Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:185-204 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety) making use of pulsed field z-gradients for coherence selection and/or rejection, and sensitivity enhancement (Cavanagh et al., Protein NMR Spectroscopy, Academic Press, San Diego, (1996), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) were chosen, which allow executing these experiments with a single transient per acquired free induction decay (FID). Semi (Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:185-204 (1993), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) constant-time (Cavanagh et al., Protein NMR Spectroscopy, Academic Press, San Diego, (1996), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) chemical shift frequency-labeling modules were used throughout in the indirect dimensions in order to minimize losses arising from transverse nuclear spin relaxation.
The present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) HA,CA,(CO),N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having two consecutive amino acid residues, i−1 and i: (1) an α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1; (2) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1; (3) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (4) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, where the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 of amino acid residue i−1 are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi of amino acid residue i, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the 13Cαi−1 chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cα) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with an anti-phase peak pair derived from the sine modulating, where (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hαi−1 in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cαi−1 chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cα) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1 for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with an in-phase peak pair derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 3D NMR spectrum and the difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα) and t2(15N) and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the 13Cαi−1 chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cα) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1 for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to generate a 3D NMR spectrum with an additional peak located centrally between two peaks forming the primary peak pair which measures the chemical shift value of 13Cαi−1 along ω1(13Cα). That additional peak can be derived from 13Cα nuclear spin polarization. One specific embodiment (3D HACA(CO)NHN) of this method is illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment can be modified to a RD2D HA,CA,(CO,N),HN NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of 15Ni does not occur. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair where (1) the chemical shift value of 1HNi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1HN), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming the peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 4D HA,CA,CO,N,HN NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t4(13C′). Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a four dimensional (4D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair where (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni, 1HNi and 13C′i−1 are measured in three frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N), ω3(1HN) and ω4(13C′), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming the peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
The 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN ExperimentThe present invention also relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having two consecutive amino acid residues, i−1 and i: (1) aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1; (2) aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1; (3) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (4) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, where the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 of amino acid residue i−1 are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi of amino acid residue i, under conditions effective (1) to generate a NMR signal encoding the chemical shifts of 13Calii−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cali) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift of 1HNi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Calii−1 in t1(13Cali) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cali), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Halii−1 in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Calii−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cali) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN) and (2) to cosine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Calii−1 in t1(13Cali) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1 for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 3D NMR spectrum and the difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Calii−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cali) and t2(15N) and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the chemical shift evolutions of 13Calii−1 in t1(13Cali) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1 for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to generate a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between two peaks forming the peak pairs which measure the chemical shift values of 13Calii−1 along ω1(13Cali). Those additional peaks can be derived from 13Cali nuclear spin polarization. One specific embodiment (3D HC-(C-TOCSY-CO)NHN) of this method is illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 2D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO,N),HN NMR experiment, which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of 15Ni does not occur. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs where (1) the chemical shift value of 1HNi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1HN), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cali), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming the peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 4D H,C,(C-TOCSY),CO,N,HN NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t4(13C′). Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a four dimensional (4D) NMR spectrum with variant peak pairs where (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni, 1HNi and 13C′i−1 are measured in three frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N), ω3(1HN), and ω4(13C′), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cali), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming the variant peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
The 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA ExperimentAnother aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having an amino acid residue, i: (1) a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi; (2) a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi; (3) an α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi; (4) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i; and (5) a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i, where the chemical shift values of 1Hαi/13Cαi and 1Hβi/13Cβi which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi, 1Hβi, 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 13C′i, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 13C′i in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα/β) and t2(13C′), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hαi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hα), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi, respectively. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 13C′i and 1Hαi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13C′) and ω3(1Hα), respectively, and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pairs, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 13C′i in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(13C′), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hαi in t3(1Hα) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cαi and 13 Cβi chemical shift evolutions in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 3D NMR spectrum and the difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N) and the chemical shift value of 1Hαi in t3(1Hα), and (2) to avoid cosine modulating the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to generate a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between two peaks forming the peak pairs which measure the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi along ω1(13Cα/β). Those additional peaks can be derived from 13Cαi and 13Cβi nuclear spin polarization. One specific embodiment (3D Hα/βCα/βCOHA) of this method is illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 2D Hα/β,Cα/β,(CO),HA NMR experiment, which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of 13C′i does not occur. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs where (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hαi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hα), and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between two peaks forming the peak pairs, respectively, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
The 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN ExperimentA further aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having an amino acid residue, i: (1) a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi; (2) a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi; (3) an α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi; (4) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi; (5) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (6) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, where the chemical shift values of 1Hαi/13Cαi and 1Hβi/13Cβi, which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi, 1Hβi, 13Cαi, and 13Cαi are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni, in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi, in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi, respectively. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pairs, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D Hα/β, Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cαi and 13Cβi chemical shift evolutions in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 3D NMR spectrum and the difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi, and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N) and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN), and (2) to avoid cosine modulating the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi, in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to generate a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between two peaks forming the peak pairs which measure the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi along ω1(13Cα/β). Those additional peaks can be derived from 13Cαi and 13Cβ nuclear spin polarization. One specific embodiment (3D Hα/βCα/βNHN) of this method is illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D Hα/β, Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 2D Hα/β,Cα/β,(N),HN NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of 15Ni does not occur. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs where (1) the chemical shift value of 1HNi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1HN), and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming the peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
The 3D H,C,H-COSY ExperimentThe present invention also relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,C,H-COSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, 1Hn, and 13Cn of a protein molecule where m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups that are linked by a single covalent carbon-carbon bond in an amino acid residue, where the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hn and 13Cn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 13Cn and 1Hn are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13Cn) and ω3(1Hn), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1Hn), and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cm chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 3D NMR spectrum and the difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn) and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1H), and (2) to avoid cosine modulating the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to generate a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between two peaks forming the peak pairs which measure the chemical shift value of 13Cm along ω1(13Cm). Those additional peaks can be derived from 13Cm nuclear spin polarization. One specific embodiment (3D HCCH-COSY) of this method is illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 2D H,C,(C),H-COSY NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of 13Cn does not occur. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs where (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hn is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hn), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming the peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
The 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY ExperimentAnother aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,C,H-TOCSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, 1Hn, and 13Cn of a protein molecule where m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups that may or may not be directly linked by a single covalent carbon-carbon bond in an amino acid residue, where the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hn and 13Cn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift values of 13Cn and 1Hn are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13Cn) and ω3(1Hn), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1Hn) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cm chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 3D NMR spectrum and the difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn) and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1Hn), and (2) to avoid cosine modulating the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to generate a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between two peaks forming the peak pairs which measure the chemical shift value of 13Cm along ω1(13Cm). Those additional peaks can be derived from 13Cm nuclear spin polarization. One specific embodiment (3D HCCH-TOCSY) of this method is illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 2D H,C,(C),H-TOCSY NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of 13Cn does not occur. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs where (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hn is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hn), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming the peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
The 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD ExperimentA further aspect of the present invention relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality two-dimensional (2D) HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule: (1) a β-proton of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 1Hβ; (2) a β-carbon of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 13Cβ; and (3) a δ-proton of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδ, where the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ which are encoded in a peak pair of a 2D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 1Hδ, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cβ in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t1(13Cβ), and the chemical shift value of 1Hδ in a direct time domain dimension, t2(1Hδ), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cβ in t1(13Cβ) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hβ. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with an anti-phase peak pair derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hδ is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hδ), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cβ), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming the anti-phase peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hβ in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cβ in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cβ) and the chemical shift value of 1Hδ in t2(1Hδ) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cβ chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cβ) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hβ for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with an in-phase peak pair derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 2D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum, and a difference 2D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 2D NMR spectrum and the difference 2D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cβ in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cβ) and the chemical shift value of 1Hδ in t2(1Hδ), and (2) to avoid cosine modulating the chemical shift evolution of 13Cβ in t1(13Cβ) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hβ for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to generate a 2D NMR spectrum with an additional peak located centrally between the two peaks forming the peak pair which measure the chemical shift value of 13Cβ along ω1(13C). That additional peak can be derived from 13Cβ nuclear spin polarization. One specific embodiment (2D HBCB(CGCD)HD) of this method is illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 3D HB,CB,(CG),CD,HD NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of a 3-carbon of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 13Cδ occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cδ in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t3(13Cδ). Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a three dimensional (3D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair where (1) the chemical shift values of 1Hδ and 13Cδ are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(1Hδ) and ω3(13Cδ), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cβ), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming the peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
In an alternate embodiment, the RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment can be modified to a RD 3D HB,CB,CG,(CD),HD NMR experiment which involves applying radiofrequency pulses so that the chemical shift evolution of a γ-carbon of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 13Cγ occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cγ in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t3(13Cγ), and said processing the NMR signals generates a three dimensional (3D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 1Hδ and 13Cγ are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(1Hδ) and ω3(13Cγ), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cβ), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming said peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
The 2D H,C,H-COSY ExperimentThe present invention also relates to a method of conducting a reduced dimensionality two-dimensional (2D) H,C,H-COSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, and 1Hn of a protein molecule where m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups in an amino acid residue, where the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 2D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The method involves providing a protein sample and applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer where the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 1Hn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cm in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t1(13Cm), and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t2(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm. Then, the NMR signals are processed to generate a sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from the sine modulating where (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hm is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hn), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of the anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, where the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
In addition, the method of conducting a RD 2D H,C,H-COSY NMR experiment can involve applying radiofrequency pulses under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cm in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t2(1Hn) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cm chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals. Then, the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals are processed to further generate a cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from the cosine modulating, a sum 2D NMR spectrum generated by adding the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum and the cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum and a difference 2D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting the cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum from the sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum. The combined use of the sum 2D NMR spectrum and the difference 2D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming the peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming the peak pairs.
One specific embodiment (2D 1H-TOCSY-HCH-COSY) of this method is illustrated in
Accordingly, a suite of multidimensional RD NMR experiments enables one to devise strategies for RD NMR-based HTP resonance assignment of proteins.
Thus, another aspect of the present invention relates to a method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of an α-proton, 1Hα, an α-carbon, 13Cα, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hα and 13Cα which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1 (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York (1986); Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3: 185-204 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety), and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements (such as α-helices and β-sheets) within the polypeptide chain (Spera et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113:5490-5492 (1991); Wishart et al., Biochemistry, 31:1647-1651 (1992), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety).
In one embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1, are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to (i) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i, and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi+1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons (including α-, β-, and γ-protons) of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1, aliphatic carbons (including α-, β-, and γ-carbons) of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 for amino acid residues i having unique pairs of 15Ni and 1HNi chemical shift values are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hα and 13Cα measured by said RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment and RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and using the 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 chemical shift values to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii of amino acid residue i. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, the chemical shift values of a γ-proton, 1Hγ, and a γ-carbon, 13Cγi, in particular, are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi measured using the RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or the RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY RD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cα measured by the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali, including the chemical shift values of 1Hγi, and 13Cγi, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
In yet another embodiment, this method involves, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, further subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hβi−1, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, 13Cαi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are obtained by using the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1 and 13Cβi−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β, CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D Hα/β, Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift value of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measured by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue I−1 with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi−1. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1 and 13Cβi−1 measured by said RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, (ii) using the chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along the polypeptide chain.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons (including α-, β-, and γ-protons) of amino acid residue i, 1Halii, and aliphatic carbons (including α-, β-, and γ-carbons) of amino acid residue i, 13Calii, of amino acid residue i. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, the chemical shift values of a γ-proton, 1Hγ, and a γ-carbon, 13Cγ, in particular, are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi, measured using the RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or the RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY RD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali, including the chemical shift values of 1Hγ and 13Cγ, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
Yet another aspect of the present invention relates to a method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of a β-proton, 1Hβ, a β-carbon, 13Cβ, an α-proton, 1Hα, an α-carbon, 13Cα, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HNi, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hα/β and 13Cα/β which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hβi−1, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cβi−1, the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1, and the chemical shift values of the α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/βi−1, with 1Hα/βi and 13Cα/βi, (ii) using 1Hα/βi−1 and 13Cα/βi−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1 (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York (1986); Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3: 185-204 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety), (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain (Spera et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113:5490-5492 (1991); Wishart et al., Biochemistry, 31:1647-1651 (1992), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety).
In one embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1, 13Cαi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi and (ii) to distinguish between NMR signals for 1Hβ/13Cα and 1Hβ/13Cβ measured in the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β, N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D HP,C,N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to (i) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cα/β, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi+1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1, 13Calii−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 for amino acid residues i having unique pairs of 15Ni and 1HNi chemical shift values are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, and 13Cα measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/βN,HN NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1,13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and using the 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 chemical shift values to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift value of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measured by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue i with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi and 13Cβi measured by said RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, (ii) using the chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along the polypeptide chain (Spera et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113:5490-5492 (1991); Wishart et al., Biochemistry, 31:1647-1651 (1992), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety).
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Halii, and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Calii, of amino acid residue i. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, the chemical shift values of a γ-proton, 1Hγi, and a γ-carbon, 13Cγi, in particular, are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured using the RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or the RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY RD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, and 13Cα measured by the RD 3DHα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, including the chemical shift values of 1Hγi and 13Cεi, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
A further aspect of the present invention involves a method for sequentially assigning the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons, 1Hali, aliphatic carbons, 13Cali, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1, the aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 15HNi and (2) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hali, 13Cali, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1 and the α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/β, with the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi and 13Cα/βi of amino acid residue i, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Cali1−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1 (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York (1986); Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol NMR, 3: 185-204 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety), and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain (Spera et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113:5490-5492 (1991); Wishart et al., Biochemistry, 31:1647-1651 (1992), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety).
In one embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to (i) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β, CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i, and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi+1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i, measured by the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi−1, 13Cα/βi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi, and (ii) to identify NMR signals for 1Hα/βi−1, 13Cα/βi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi in the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1, 13Cαi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi and (ii) to identify NMR signals for 1Hα and 13Cα in the RD 3D HC,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D HC,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift value of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measured by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue i with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi and 13Cβi measured by said RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD)ND NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, using the chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along the polypeptide chain.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Halii, and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Calii. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, the chemical shift values of a γ-proton, 1Hγi, and a γ-carbon, 13Cγi, in particular, are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii measured using the RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or the RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, including the chemical shift values of 1Hγi and 13Cγi, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
The present invention also relates to a method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of aliphatic protons, 1Hali, aliphatic carbons, 13Cali, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule. The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, including: (1) a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1, the aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hali, 13Cali, 15N, and 1HN are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1 and the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1 with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Cali1−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1 (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York (1986); Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3: 185-204 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety), and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using the chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain (Spera et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113:5490-5492 (1991); Wishart et al., Biochemistry, 31:1647-1651 (1992), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety).
In one embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to (i) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β, CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i, and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, an α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi−1, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i, measured by the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1, the α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/βi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi, and (ii) to distinguish NMR signals for the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment from NMR signals for the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 other than 1Hα/βi−1 and 13Cα/βi−1 measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measured by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue i with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi. Then, sequential assignments are obtained by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi and 13Cβi measured by said RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, using the chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and by locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along the polypeptide chain.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Halii, and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Calii. Then, sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, the chemical shift values of a γ-proton, 1Hγi, and a γ-carbon, 13Cγi, in particular, are obtained by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali measured using the RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or the RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, including the chemical shift values of 1Hγi, and 13Cγi, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
Another aspect of the present invention involves a method for obtaining nearly complete assignments of chemical shift values of 1H, 13C and 15N of a protein molecule (excluding only chemical shift values of 13Cδ and 15Nε2 of glutamines, of 13Cγ and 15Nδ2 of asparagines, of 13Cε3, 1Hε3, 13Cζ2, 1Hζ2, 13Cζ3, 1Hζ3, 13Cη2, and 1Hη2 groups of tryptophans, of 13Cε and 1Hε of methionines, and of labile sidechain protons that exchange rapidly with the protons of the solvent water) (Yamazaki et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:11054-11055 (1993), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety), which are required for the determination of the tertiary structure of a protein in solution (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York (1986), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety). The method involves providing a protein sample and conducting four reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, where the chemical shift values of 1H and 13C which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner and (1) a first experiment is selected from a RD three-dimensional (3D) Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, or a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment for obtaining sequential correlations of chemical shift values; (2) a second experiment is selected from a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, or a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment for obtaining intraresidue correlations of chemical shift values; (3) a third experiment is a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment for obtaining assignments of aliphatic and aromatic sidechain chemical shift values; and (4) a fourth experiment is a RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment for obtaining assignments of aromatic sidechain chemical shift values.
In one embodiment of this method, the protein sample could be further subjected to a RD 2D H,C,H-COSY NMR experiment for obtaining assignments of aliphatic and aromatic sidechain chemical shift values.
In another embodiment of this method, the first experiment is the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and the second experiment is the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment to distinguish between NMR signals for 1Hα/13Cα and 1Hβ/13Cβ from the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbons, 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β, CO,HA NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbons, 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment and a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aliphatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aromatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 13Cβ.
In yet another embodiment of this method, the first experiment is the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the second experiment is the RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment to identify NMR signals for 1Hα/13Cα in the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbons, 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β, CO,HA NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbons, 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment and a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aliphatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aromatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 13Cβ.
In yet another embodiment of this method, the first experiment is the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the second experiment is the RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment to identify NMR signals for 1Hα and 13Cα in the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment to identify NMR signals for 1Hα/β and 13Cα/β in the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbons, 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbons, 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment and a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aliphatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aromatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 13Cβ.
In yet another embodiment of this method, the first experiment is the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and the second experiment is the RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment to identify NMR signals for 1Hα and 13Cα in the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment to identify NMR signals for 1Hα/β and 13Cα/β in the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbons, 13C′.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aliphatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 1H and 13C of aromatic sidechains.
In another embodiment, the protein sample could, in addition to the RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment, RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment, and RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment, be further subjected to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to obtain assignments of chemical shift values of 13Cβ.
In addition, the above-described method for obtaining assignments of chemical shift values of 1H, 13C and 15N of a protein molecule can involve further subjecting the protein sample to nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) (Wüthrich, NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York (1986), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety), to NMR experiments that measure scalar coupling constants (Eberstadt et al., Angew Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 34:1671-1695 (1995); Cordier et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121:1601-1602 (1999), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety), or to NMR experiments that measure residual dipolar coupling constants (Prestegard, Nature Struct. Biol., 5:517-522 (1998); Tjandra et al., Science, 278:1111-1114 (1997), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety), to deduce the tertiary fold or tertiary structure of the protein molecule.
A standard set of experiments (3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN, 3D HNNCAHA, 3D HHα/βCα/βCOHA, 3D HNNCACB, 3D HNN<CO,CA>, 3D HCCH-COSY, 3D HCCH-TOCSY, 2D HBCB(CDCG)HD, and 2D 1H-TOCSY-relayed HCH-COSY) can be employed for obtaining nearly complete resonance assignments of proteins including aliphatic and aromatic side chain spin systems.
For larger proteins, complementary recording of highly sensitive 3D HACA(CO)NHN promises (i) to yield spin systems which escape detection in Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN, and (ii) to offer the distinction of α- and β-moiety resonances by comparison with Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN. Furthermore, employment of 50% random fractional protein deuteration (LeMaster, Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biophys Chem., 19:43-266 (1990); Nietlispach et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:407-415 (1996); Shan et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:6570-6579 (1996); Leiting et al., Anal. Biochem., 265:351-355 (1998); Hochuli et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 17:33-42 (2000), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety) in combination with the standard suite of NMR experiments (or transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy (TROSY) versions thereof) is attractive. The impact of deuteration for recording 4D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN for proteins reorienting with correlation times up to around 20 ns (corresponding to a molecular weight around 30 kDa at ambient T) has been demonstrated (Nietlispach et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:407-415 (1996), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety). Accordingly, 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN can be expected to maintain its pivotal role for obtaining complete resonance assignments for deuterated proteins at least up to about that size. Furthermore, protein deuteration offers the advantage that HNNCACB, which can be expected to become significantly less sensitive than HNNCAHA for larger non-deuterated systems, (Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 11:387-405 (1998), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) can be kept to recruit 13Cβ chemical shifts for sequential assignment (Shan et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118:6570-6579 (1996), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety).
If solely chemical shifts are considered, the unambiguous identification of peak pairs is more involved whenever multiple peak pairs with degenerate chemical shifts in the other dimensions are present. The acquisition of the corresponding central peaks addresses this complication in a conceptually straightforward fashion. However, it is important to note that pairs of peaks generated by a chemical shift splitting have quite similar intensity. In contrast, peak pairs arising from different moieties, possible located in different amino acid residues, most often do not show similar intensity. This is because the nuclear spin relaxation times, which determine the peak intensities, vary within each residue as well as along the polypeptide chain. One may thus speak of a “nuclear spin relaxation time labeling” of peak pairs, which makes their identification an obvious task in most cases.
Using cryogenic probes can reduce NMR measurement times by about a factor of 10 or more (Flynn et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122:4823-4824 (2000), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety). The high sensitivity of cryogenic probes shifts even the recording of RD NMR experiments entirely into the sampling limited data acquisition regime. In view of this dramatic reduction in spectrometer time demand, minimally achievable RD NMR measurement times are of keen interest to be able to adapt the NMR measurement times to sensitivity requirements in future HTP endeavours. To further reduce the measurement time, and in view of the aforementioned “spin relaxation time labelling” of peak pairs, one may decide to also discard the use of 13C-steady state magnetization for central peak detection.
Although RD NMR was proposed in 1993 (Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:127-132 (1993); Szyperski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:9307-9308 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety), its wide-spread use has been delayed by the more demanding spectral analysis when compared to conventional TR NMR. In particular, the necessity to extract chemical shifts from in-phase splittings suggests that strong computer support is key for employment of RD NMR on a routine basis. This can be readily addressed by using automated resonance assignment software for automated analysis of RD TR NMR data.
In conclusion, the joint employment of RD NMR spectroscopy (as well as phase-sensitively detected RD NMR spectroscopy), cryogenic probes, and automated backbone resonance assignment will allow one to determine a protein's backbone resonance assignments and secondary structure in a short time.
EXAMPLESThe following examples are provided to illustrate embodiments of the present invention but are by no means intended to limit its scope.
Example 1 Sample PreparationNMR measurements were performed using a 1 mM solution of uniformly 13C/15N enriched “Z-domain” of the Staphylococcal protein A (Tashiro et al., J. Mol. Biol., 272:573-590 (1997); Lyons et al., Biochemistry, 32:7839-7845 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety) dissolved in 90% D2O/10% H2O (20 M K—PO4) at pH=6.5 and a 2 mM solution of 15N/13C doubly labeled ubiquitin in 90% H2O/10% D2O (50 mM K—PO4; pH=5.8).
Example 2 NMR SpectroscopyMultidimensional NMR experiments (
NMR experiments were recorded at a temperature of 25° C. on a Varian Inova 600 spectrometer equipped with a new generation 1H{13C,15N} triple resonance probe which exhibits a signal-to-noise ratio of 1200:1 for a standard 0.1% ethylbenzene sample.
Specific embodiments of the 11 RD NMR experiments disclosed by the present invention were implemented for the present study.
The RD NMR experiments are grouped accordingly in Table 1, which lists for each experiment (i) the nuclei for which the chemical shifts are measured, (ii) if and how the central peaks are acquired and (iii) additional notable technical features. State-of-the art implementations (Cavanagh et al., Protein NMR Spetroscopy, Academic Press, San Diego, (1996); Kay, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:2055-2057 (1993); Grzesiek et al., J. Magn Reson., 99:201-207 (1992); Montelione et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114:10974-10975 (1992); Boucher et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 2:631-637 (1992); Yamazaki et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:11054-11055 (1993); Zerbe et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 7:99-106 (1996); Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol. NMR 3:185-204 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety) making use of pulsed field z-gradients for coherence selection and/or rejection, and sensitivity enhancement (Cavanagh et al., Protein NMR Spectroscopy, Academic Press, San Diego, (1996), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) were chosen, which allow executing these experiments with a single transient per acquired free induction decay (FID). Semi (Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 3:185-204 (1993), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) constant-time (Cavanagh et al., Protein NMR Spectroscopy, Academic Press, San Diego, (1996), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) chemical shift frequency-labeling modules were used throughout in the indirect dimensions in order to minimize losses arising from transverse nuclear spin relaxation.
In total, nine RD TR NMR experiments were recorded for the Z-domain protein (Table 2) and eleven RD TR NMR experiments for ubiquitin (Table 3).
The comprehensive analysis of the suite of multidimensional spectra recorded for the present study (Tables 1-3) lays the foundation to devise strategies for RD NMR-based HTP resonance assignment of proteins.
For proteins in the molecular weight range up to about 20 kDa, 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN plays a pivotal role. Firstly, the peak patterns observed along ω1(13Cα/β) in subspectra I and II enable sequential resonance assignment in combination with HNNCAHA and HNNCACB, respectively, by matching intraresidue and sequential 1Hα, 13Cα and 13Cβ chemical shifts. (When considering “nuclear spin relaxation time labelling” of peak pairs, subspectrum II derived from 13C steady state magnetization provides largely redundant information when compared with subspectrum I. However, the observation of the central peaks allows direct matching of peak positions between subspectrum II, essentially a CBCA(CO)NHN spectrum, and HNNCACB.) Moreover, this set of chemical shifts alone provides valuable information for amino acid type identification (Zimmerman et al., J. Mol. Biol., 269:592-610 (1997); Cavanagh et al., Protein NMR Spetroscopy, Academic Press, San Diego, (1996); Grzesiek et al., J. Biomol NMR, 3:185-204 (1993), which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety). Complementary recording of 3D Hα/βCα/βCOHA and 3D HNN<CO,CA> contributes polypeptide backbone 13C═O chemical shift measurements for establishing sequential assignments: the intraresidue correlation is obtained by ω1(13Cα/β) peak pattern matching with 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN, and the sequential correlation is inferred from 13Cα, 15N and 1HN chemical shifts in 3D HNN<CO,CA> (Szyperski et al., J. Biomol. NMR, 11:387-405 (1998), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety). Notably, even for medium-sized (non-deuterated) proteins this approach is superior to the use of a low sensitivity HNNCACO-type experiment (e.g., in combination with HNNCOCA), where the magnetization transfer via rapidly relaxing 13Cα relies on the rather small 15N—13Cα one-bond scalar coupling. Secondly, comparison of ω1(13Cα/β) peak patterns with 3D HCCH-COSY and TOCSY connects the Cα/β/Hα/β chemical shifts with those of the aliphatic side chain spin systems (For Z-domain, complete side chain assignments were obtained for all but six residues using 3D HCCH-COSY only.), while comparison of ω1(13Cβ) peaks with 2D HBCB(CDCG)HD and subsequent linking with 1Hδ chemical shifts detected in 2D 1H-TOCSY-relayed HCH-COSY affords assignment of the aromatic spin systems. Since for many amino acid residues the two β-protons exhibit non-degenerate chemical shifts, the connection of Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN and HBCB(CDCG)HD or HCCH-COSY/TOCSY may in fact often rely on comparison of three chemical shifts, i.e., δ(1Hβ2), δ(1Hβ3) and δ(13Cβ). This consideration underscores the potential of recruiting β-proton chemical shifts for establishing sequential resonance assignments.
Although preferred embodiments have been depicted and described in detail herein, it will be apparent to those skilled in the relevant art that various modifications, additions, substitutions, and the like can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention and these are therefore considered to be within the scope of the invention as defined in the claims which follow.
Claims
1. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) HA,CA,(CO),N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having two consecutive amino acid residues, i−1 and i: (1) an α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1; (2) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1; (3) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (4) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 of amino acid residue i−1 are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi of amino acid residue i, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the 13Cαi−1 chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cα) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with an anti-phase peak pair derived from said sine modulating, wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming said anti-phase peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively, wherein said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hαi−1 in a phase sensitive manner.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cαi−1 chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cα) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1 for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with an in-phase peak pair derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 3D NMR spectrum and said difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of 15Ni does not occur and said processing the NMR signals generates a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1HNi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1HN), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming said peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t4(13C′), and said processing the NMR signals generates a four dimensional (4D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni, 1HNi and 13C′i−1 are measured in three frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N), ω3(1HN), and ω4(13C′), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming said peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the 13Cαi−1 chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cα) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1 for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals generates a 3D NMR spectrum with an additional peak located centrally between two peaks forming said peak pair which measures the chemical shift value of 13Cαi−1 along ω1(13Cα).
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said additional peak is derived from 13Cα nuclear spin polarization.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2B, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Hαi−1 magnetization, which is transferred to 13Cαi−1, to 15Ni, and to 1HNi, to generate the NMR signal.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses comprises:
- applying a first set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3B to generate a first NMR signal, and
- applying a second set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3B, wherein phase φ1 of the first 1H pulse is altered by 180° to generate a second NMR signal, said method further comprising:
- adding and subtracting the first NMR signal and the second NMR signal prior to said processing, whereby said processing the NMR signals generates a first NMR subspectrum derived from said subtracting which contains said peak pair and a second NMR subspectrum derived from said adding which contains said additional peak located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pair.
9. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,-(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having two consecutive amino acid residues, i−1 and i: (1) aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1; (2) aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1; (3) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (4) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 of amino acid residue i−1 are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi of amino acid residue i, under conditions effective (1) to generate a NMR signal encoding the chemical shift values of 13Calii−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cali) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Calii−1 in t1(13Cali) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from said sine modulating wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cali), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of said anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, wherein said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Halii−1 in a phase sensitive manner.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Calii−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cali) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN) and (2) to cosine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Calii−1 in t1(13Cali) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Halii−1 for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 3D NMR spectrum and said difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
11. The method according to claim 9, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of 15Ni does not occur and said processing the NMR signals generates a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1HNi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1HN), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cali), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming said peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
12. The method according to claim 9, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t4(13C′), and said processing the NMR signals generates a four dimensional (4D) NMR spectrum with variant peak pairs wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni, 1HNi and 13C′i−1 are measured in three frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N), ω3(1HN), and ω4(13C′), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cali), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming said variant peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
13. The method according to claim 9, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Calii−1 and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cali) and t2(15N) and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the chemical shift evolutions of 13Calii−1 in t1(13Cali) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hαi−1 for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals generates a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between said peak pairs which measure the chemical shift values of 13Calii−1 along ω1(13Cali).
14. The method according to claim 13, wherein said additional peaks are derived from 13Cali nuclear spin polarization.
15. The method according to claim 14, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2C, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Halii−1 magnetization, and 1Halii−1 magnetization is transferred to 13Calii−1, to 13Cαi−1, to 13C′i−1, to 15Ni, and to 1HNi, where the NMR signal is detected.
16. The method according to claim 15, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses comprises:
- applying a first set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3C to generate a first NMR signal, and
- applying a second set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3C, wherein phase φ1 of the first 1H pulse is altered by 180° to generate a second NMR signal, said method further comprising:
- adding and subtracting the first NMR signal and the second NMR signal prior to said processing, whereby said processing the NMR signals generates a first NMR subspectrum derived from said subtracting which contains said peak pairs, and a second NMR subspectrum derived from said adding which contains said additional peaks located centrally between said peak pairs.
17. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having an amino acid residue, i: (1) a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi; (2) a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi; (3) an α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi; (4) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi; and (5) a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hαi/13Cαi and 1Hβi/13Cβi which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi, 1Hβi, 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 13C′i, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 13C′i in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα/β) and t2(13C′), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hαi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hα) and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi, respectively; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from said sine modulating wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 13C′i and 1Hαi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13C′) and ω3(1Hα), respectively, and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of said anti-phase peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming said anti-phase peak pairs, wherein said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi in a phase sensitive manner.
18. The method according to claim 17, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 13C′i in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(13C′), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hαi in t3(1Hα) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cαi and 13Cβi chemical shift evolutions in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signals and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 3D NMR spectrum and said difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
19. The method according to claim 17, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of 13C′i does not occur and said processing the NMR signals generates a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hαi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hα), and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between two peaks forming said peak pairs, respectively, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
20. The method according to claim 17 wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N) and the chemical shift value of 1Hαi in t3(1Hα), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signal, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals generates a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs which measure the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi along ω1(13Cα/β).
21. The method according to claim 20, wherein said additional peaks are derived from 13Cα and 13Cβ nuclear spin polarization.
22. The method according to claim 21, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2E, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Hαi and 1Hβi magnetization, and 1Hαi and 1Hβi polarization is transferred to 13Cαi and 13Cβi, to 13C′i, and back to 1Hαi, where the NMR signal is detected.
23. The method according to claim 22, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses comprises:
- applying a first set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3E to generate a first NMR signal, and
- applying a second set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3E, wherein phase φ1 of the first 1H pulse is altered by 180° to generate a second NMR signal, said method further comprising:
- adding and subtracting the first NMR signal and the second NMR signal prior to said processing, whereby said processing the NMR signals generates a first NMR subspectrum derived from said subtracting which contains said peak pairs, and a second NMR subspectrum derived from said adding which contains said additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
24. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule having an amino acid residue, i: (1) a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi; (2) a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi; (3) an α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi; (4) an α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi; (5) a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni; and (6) a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hαi/13Cαi and 1Hβi/13Cβi which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi, 1Hβi, 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 15Ni and 1HNi, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1HN) and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi, respectively; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from said sine modulating wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 15Ni and 1HNi are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(15N) and ω3(1HN), respectively, and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of said anti-phase peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of said two peaks forming said anti-phase peak pairs, wherein said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi in a phase sensitive manner.
25. The method according to claim 24, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cαi and 13Cβi chemical shift evolutions in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 3D NMR spectrum and said difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
26. The method according to claim 24, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of 15Ni does not occur and said processing the NMR signals generates a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1HNi is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1HN), and (2) (i) the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 1Hβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming said peak pairs, and (ii) the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, and 13Cβi are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cα/β), by the frequencies at the center of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
27. The method according to claim 24, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cαi, 13Cβi and 15Ni in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cα/β) and t2(15N) and the chemical shift value of 1HNi in t3(1HN), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the chemical shift evolutions of 13Cαi and 13Cβi in t1(13Cα/β) with the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hαi and 1Hβi for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals generates a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs which measure the chemical shift values of 13Cαi and 13Cβi along ω1(13Cα/β).
28. The method according to claim 27, wherein said additional peaks are derived from 13Cα and 13Cβ nuclear spin polarization.
29. The method according to claim 28, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2F, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Hαi and 1Hβi magnetization, and 1Hαi and 1Hβi magnetization is transferred to 13Cαi and 13Cβi, to 15Ni, and to 1HNi, where the NMR signal is detected.
30. The method according to claim 29, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses comprises:
- applying a first set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3F to generate a first NMR signal, and
- applying a second set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3F, wherein phase φ1 of the first 1H pulse is altered by 180° to generate a second NMR signal, said method further comprising:
- adding and subtracting the first NMR signal and the second NMR signal prior to said processing, whereby said processing the NMR signals generates a first NMR subspectrum derived from said subtracting which contains said peak pairs, and a second NMR subspectrum derived from said adding which contains said additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
31. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,C,H-COSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, 1Hn, and 13Cn of a protein molecule wherein m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups that are linked by a single covalent carbon-carbon bond in an amino acid residue, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hn and 13Cm, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from said sine modulating wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 13Cn and 1Hn are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13Cn) and ω3(1Hn), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of said anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, wherein said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
32. The method according to claim 31, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1Hn), and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cm chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 3D NMR spectrum and said difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
33. The method according to claim 31, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of 13Cn does not occur and said processing the NMR signals generates a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hn is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hn), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming said peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
34. The method according to claim 31, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate an additional NMR signal encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn) and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1H), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signal, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signal generates a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs which measure the chemical shift value of 13Cm along ω1(13Cm).
35. The method according to claim 34, wherein said additional peaks are derived from 13Cm nuclear spin polarization.
36. The method according to claim 35, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2H, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Hm magnetization, and 1Hm magnetization is transferred to 13Cm, to 13Cn, and to 1Hn, where the NMR signal is detected.
37. The method according to claim 36, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses comprises:
- applying a first set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3H to generate a first NMR signal, and
- applying a second set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3H, wherein phase φ1 of the first 1H pulse is altered by 180° to generate a second NMR signal, said method further comprising:
- adding and subtracting the first NMR signal and the second NMR signal prior to said processing, whereby said processing the NMR signals generates a first NMR subspectrum derived from said subtracting which contains said peak pairs, and a second NMR subspectrum derived from said adding which contains said additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
38. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality three-dimensional (3D) H,C,C,H-TOCSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, 1Hn, and 13Cn of a protein molecule wherein m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups that may or may not be directly linked by a single covalent carbon-carbon bond in an amino acid residue, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hn and 13Cn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in two indirect time domain dimensions, t1(13 Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t3(1Hn), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from said sine modulating wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 13Cn and 1Hn are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(13Cn) and ω3(1Hn), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of said anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, wherein said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm and in a phase sensitive manner.
39. The method according to claim 38, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn), respectively, and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1Hn) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cm chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 3D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, and a difference 3D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 3D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 3D NMR spectrum and said difference 3D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
40. The method according to claim 38, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that the chemical shift evolution of 13Cn does not occur and said processing the NMR signals generates a two dimensional (2D) NMR spectrum with peak pairs wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hn is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hn), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between the two peaks forming said peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
41. The method according to claim 38, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift values of 13Cm and 13Cn in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and t2(13Cn) and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t3(1Hn), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals generates a 3D NMR spectrum with additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs which measure the chemical shift value of 13Cm along ω1(13Cm).
42. The method according to claim 41, wherein said additional peaks are derived from 13Cm nuclear spin polarization.
43. The method according to claim 42, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2I, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Hm magnetization, and 1Hm magnetization is transferred to 13Cm, to 13Cn, and to 1Hn, where the NMR signal is detected.
44. The method according to claim 43, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses comprises:
- applying a first set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3I to generate a first NMR signal, and
- applying a second set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3I, wherein phase φ1 of the first 1H pulse is altered by 180° to generate a second NMR signal, said method further comprising:
- adding and subtracting the first NMR signal and the second NMR signal prior to said processing, whereby said processing the NMR signals generates a first NMR subspectrum derived from said subtracting which contains said peak pairs, and a second NMR subspectrum derived from said adding which contains said additional peaks located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
45. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality two-dimensional (2D) HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD nuclear magnetic resonance NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for the following nuclei of a protein molecule: (1) a β-proton of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 1Hβ; (2) a β-carbon of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 13Cβ; and (3) a δ-proton of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδ, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ which are encoded in a peak pair of a 2D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 1Hδ, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cβ in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t1(13Cβ), and the chemical shift value of 1Hδ in a direct time domain dimension, t2(1Hδ), and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cβ in t1(13Cβ) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hβ; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with an anti-phase peak pair derived from said sine modulating wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hδ is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hδ), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cβ), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming said anti-phase peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively, wherein said sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hβ in a phase sensitive manner.
46. The method according to claim 45, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cβ in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cβ) and the chemical shift value of 1Hδ in t2(1Hδ) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cβ chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cβ) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hβ for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with an in-phase peak pair derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 2D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum, and a difference 2D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 2D NMR spectrum and said difference 2D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
47. The method according to claim 45, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out so that:
- (i) the chemical shift evolution of a δ-carbon of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 13Cδ, occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cδ in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t3(13Cδ), and said processing the NMR signals generates a three dimensional (3D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 1Hδ and 13Cδ are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(1Hδ) and ω3(13Cδ), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cβ), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming said peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively; or
- (ii) the chemical shift evolution of a γ-carbon of an amino acid residue with an aromatic side chain, 13Cγ occurs under conditions effective to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cγ, in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t3(13Cγ), and said processing the NMR signals generates a three dimensional (3D) NMR spectrum with a peak pair wherein (1) the chemical shift values of 1Hδ and 13Cγ are measured in two frequency domain dimensions, ω2(1Hδ) and ω3(13Cγ), respectively, and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cβ), by the frequency difference between the two peaks forming said peak pair and the frequency at the center of the two peaks, respectively.
48. The method according to claim 46, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cβ in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cβ) and the chemical shift value of 1Hδ in t2(1Hδ), and (2) to avoid sine modulating the chemical shift evolution of 13Cβ in t1(13Cβ) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hβ for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals generates a 2D NMR spectrum with an additional peak located centrally between said peak pair which measure the chemical shift value of 13Cβ along ω1(13Cβ).
49. The method according to claim 48, wherein said additional peak is derived from 13Cβ nuclear spin polarization.
50. The method according to claim 49, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2J, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Hβ magnetization, and 1Hβ magnetization is transferred to 13Cβ, to 13Cδ, and to 1Hδ, where the NMR signal is detected.
51. The method according to claim 50, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses comprises:
- applying a first set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3J to generate a first NMR signal, and
- applying a second set of radiofrequency pulses according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3J, wherein phase φ1 of the first 1H pulse is altered by 180° to generate a second NMR signal, said method further comprising:
- adding and subtracting the first NMR signal and the second NMR signal prior to said processing, whereby said processing the NMR signals generates a first NMR subspectrum derived from said subtracting which contains said peak pair, and a second NMR subspectrum derived from said adding which contains said additional peak located centrally between the two peaks forming said peak pair.
52. A method of conducting a reduced dimensionality two-dimensional (2D) H,C,H-COSY nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment by measuring the chemical shift values for 1Hm, 13Cm, and 1Hn of a protein molecule wherein m and n indicate atom numbers of two CH, CH2 or CH3 groups in an amino acid residue, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm which are encoded in a peak pair of a 2D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, said method comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- applying radiofrequency pulses to the protein sample which effect a nuclear spin polarization transfer wherein the chemical shift evolutions of 1Hm and 13Cm are connected to the chemical shift evolution of 1Hn, under conditions effective (1) to generate NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cm in a phase sensitive manner in an indirect time domain dimension, t1(13Cm), and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in a direct time domain dimension, t2(1Hn) and (2) to sine modulate the chemical shift evolution of 13Cm in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm; and
- processing the NMR signals to generate a sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with anti-phase peak pairs derived from said sine modulating wherein (1) the chemical shift value of 1Hn is measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω2(1Hn), and (2) the chemical shift values of 1Hm and 13Cm are measured in a frequency domain dimension, ω1(13Cm), by the frequency differences between each of the two peaks forming each of said anti-phase peak pairs and the frequencies at the center of the two peaks, respectively, wherein said sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum enables detection of the chemical shift value of 1Hm in a phase sensitive manner.
53. The method according to claim 52, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out under conditions effective (1) to generate additional NMR signals encoding the chemical shift value of 13Cm in a phase sensitive manner in t1(13Cm) and the chemical shift value of 1Hn in t2(13Hn) and (2) to cosine modulate the 13Cm chemical shift evolution in t1(13Cm) with the chemical shift evolution of 1Hm for the additional NMR signals, and said processing the NMR signals and the additional NMR signals further comprises generating a cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum with in-phase peak pairs derived from said cosine modulating, a sum 2D NMR spectrum generated by adding said sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum and said cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum, and a difference 2D NMR spectrum generated by subtracting said cosine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum from said sine-modulated 2D NMR spectrum, wherein combined use of said sum 2D NMR spectrum and said difference 2D NMR spectrum enables placement of the two peaks forming said peak pairs into separate spectra, thereby allowing phase-sensitive editing of the two peaks forming said peak pairs.
54. The method according to claim 52, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses effects a nuclear spin polarization transfer according to FIG. 2K, wherein a radiofrequency pulse is used to create transverse 1Hm magnetization, and 1Hm polarization is transferred to 13Cm, to 1Hm, and to 1Hn, where the NMR signal is detected.
55. The method according to claim 54, wherein said applying radiofrequency pulses is carried out according to the scheme shown in FIG. 3K.
56. A method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of an α-proton, 1Hα, an α-carbon, 13Cα, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hα and 13Cα which are encoded in a peak pair of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, comprising: (1) a RD three dimensional (3D) HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using said chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
57. The method according to claim 56 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NUN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hβi−1, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, 13Cαi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ by using the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1 and 13Cβi−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1.
58. The method according to claim 57 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
59. The method according to claim 57 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
60. The method according to claim 57 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift value of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measure by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
61. The method according to claim 57 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD two-dimensional (2D) HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue i−1 with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi−1; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1 and 13Cβi−1 measured by said RD 2D HB, CB, (CG,CD), HD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment, (ii) using said chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along said polypeptide chain.
62. The method according to claim 57 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Halii, and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Calii; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured using said RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY RD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment, RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
63. The method according to claim 56 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
64. The method according to claim 56 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to (i) a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi+1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
65. The method according to claim 56, further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1, aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 for amino acid residues i having unique pairs of 15Ni and 1HNi chemical shift values by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hα and 13Cα measured by said RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment and RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and using the 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 chemical shift values to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1.
66. The method according to claim 56 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Halii, and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Calii; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi measured using said RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY RD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hα and 13Cα measured by said RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
67. A method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of a β-proton, 1Hβ, a β-carbon, 13Cβ, an α-proton, 1Hα, an α-carbon, 13Cα, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hα/β and 13Cα/β which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, comprising: (1) a RD three-dimensional (3D) Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hβ1−i, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cβi−1, the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1, and the α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/βi−1, with the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi and 13Cα/βi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi−1 and 13Cα/βi, to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using said chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
68. The method according to claim 67 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1, 13Cαi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi and (ii) to distinguish between NMR signals for 1Hα/13Cα and 1Hβ/13Cβ measured in said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/βN,HN NMR experiment.
69. The method according to claim 67 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
70. The method according to claim 67 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, 13C′i−1, 13Cαi, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
71. The method according to claim 67 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to (i) a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi+1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
72. The method according to claim 67 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1, 13Calii−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 for amino acid residues i having unique pairs of 15Ni and 1HNi chemical shift values by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, and 13Cα measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and using the 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 chemical shift values to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1.
73. The method according to claim 67 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift value of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measured by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment.
74. The method according to claim 67 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD two-dimensional (2D) HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue i with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi and 13Cβi measured by said RD 2D HC,CB, (CG, CD), HDNMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, (ii) using said chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along said polypeptide chain.
75. The method according to claim 67, further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Hali i and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Cali i; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured using said RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY RD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, and 13Cα measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
76. A method for sequentially assigning the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons, 1Hali, aliphatic carbons, 13Cali, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, comprising: (1) a RD three-dimensional (3D) H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1, the aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, the β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hali, 13Cali, 15N, and 1HN by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1 and the α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/βi−1 with the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi and 13Cα/βi of amino acid residue i, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii−i and 13Calii−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using said chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
77. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β, CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
78. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
79. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to (i) a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi+1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
80. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hα/βi−1, 13Cα/βi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi, and (ii) to identify NMR signals for 1Hα/βi−1, 13Cα/βi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi in said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
81. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect chemical shift values of 1Hαi−1, 13Cαi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi and (ii) to identify NMR signals for 1Hα and 13Cα in said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment.
82. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift value of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measured by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
83. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD two-dimensional (2D) HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue i with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi and 13Cβi measured by said RD 2D HB,CB, (CG, CD), HD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, using said chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along said polypeptide chain.
84. The method according to claim 76 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Halii and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Calii; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii measured using said RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment, and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
85. A method for sequentially assigning chemical shift values of aliphatic protons, 1Hali, aliphatic carbons, 13Cali, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen, 15N, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton, 1HN, of a protein molecule comprising:
- providing a protein sample;
- conducting a set of reduced dimensionality (RD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on the protein sample, wherein the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali which are encoded in peak pairs of a 3D NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner, comprising: (1) a RD three-dimensional (3D) H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Halii−1, the aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Calii−1, the polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i, 15Ni, and the polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i, 1HNi and (2) a RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Hali, 13Cali, 15N, and 1HN by (i) matching the chemical shift values of the α-proton of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hαi−1, and the α-carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cαi−1, with the chemical shift values of 1Hαi and 13Cαi, (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 to identify the type of amino acid residue i−1, and (iii) mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and using said chemical shift values to locate secondary structure elements within the polypeptide chain.
86. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β, CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 1Hβ, 13Cβ, 1Hα, 13Cβ, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D H C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
87. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i−1, 13C′i−1, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift value of 13C′i−1 by matching the chemical shift value of 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the sequentially assigned chemical shift values of 13Cα, 15N, and 1HN measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment.
88. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to (i) a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of a β-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hβi, a β-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cβi, the α-proton of amino acid residue i, 1Hαi, the α-carbon of amino acid residue i, 13Cαi, and a polypeptide backbone carbonyl carbon of amino acid residue i, 13C′i and (ii) a RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13C′i, an α-carbon of amino acid residue i+1, 13Cαi+1, a polypeptide backbone amide nitrogen of amino acid residue i+1, 15Ni+1, and a polypeptide backbone amide proton of amino acid residue i+1, 1HNi+1; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D HNN<CO,CA> NMR experiment with the chemical shift value of 13C′i measured by said RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR experiment.
89. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NUN NMR experiment (i) to measure and connect the chemical shift values of the α- and β-protons of amino acid residue i−1, 1Hα/βi−1, α- and β-carbons of amino acid residue i−1, 13Cα/βi−1, 15Ni, and 1HNi, and (ii) to distinguish NMR signals for the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β(CO)NHN NMR experiment from NMR signals for the chemical shift values of 1Halii−1 and 13Calii−1 other than 1Hα/βi−1 and 13Cα/βi−1 measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
90. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D Hα/βCα/β,N,HN NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi−1, 13Cβi−1, 1Hαi−1, and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
91. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 13Cβi, 13Cαi, 15Ni, and 1HNi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 13Cβi and 13Cαi measured by said 3D HNNCACB NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 13Cβi−1 and 13Cαi−1 measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment.
92. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD two-dimensional (2D) HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, and a δ-proton of amino acid residue i with an aromatic side chain, 1Hδi; and
- obtaining sequential assignments by matching the chemical shift values of 1Hβi and 13Cβi measured by said RD 2D HB, CB,(CG, CD), HD NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβ and 13Cβ measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment, using said chemical shift values to identify amino acid residue i as having an aromatic side chain, and mapping sets of sequentially connected chemical shift values to the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain and locating amino acid residues with aromatic side chains along said polypeptide chain.
93. The method according to claim 85 further comprising:
- subjecting the protein sample to a RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or a RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment to measure and connect the chemical shift values of aliphatic protons of amino acid residue i, 1Halii and aliphatic carbons of amino acid residue i, 13Calii; and
- obtaining sequential assignments of the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii by (i) matching the chemical shift values of 1Hali and 13Cali measured using said RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR experiment or RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR experiment with the chemical shift values of 1Hβi, 13Cβi, 1Hαi, and 13Cαi measured by said RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiment and RD 3D HNNCAHA NMR experiment, and (ii) using the chemical shift values of 1Halii and 13Calii, to identify the type of amino acid residue i.
Type: Application
Filed: Jun 3, 2008
Publication Date: May 7, 2009
Applicant:
Inventors: Thomas A. Szyperski (Amherst, NY), Seho Kim (Highland Park, NJ)
Application Number: 12/132,320
International Classification: G01R 33/44 (20060101);