Issue 3, 2008

Isotropic chemical shifts in magic-angle spinningNMR spectra of proteins

Abstract

Here we examine the effect of magic-angle spinning (MAS) rate upon lineshape and observed peak position for backbone carbonyl (C′) peaks in NMR spectra of uniformly-13C,15N-labeled (U–13C,15N) solid proteins. 2D N–C’ spectra of U–13C,15N microcrystalline protein GB1 were acquired at six MAS rates, and the site-resolved C′ lineshapes were analyzed by numerical simulations and comparison to spectra from a sparsely labeled sample (derived from 1,3-13C–glycerol). Spectra of the U–13C,15N sample demonstrate large variations in the signal-to-noise ratio and peak positions, which are absent in spectra of the sparsely labeled sample, in which most 13C′ sites do not possess a directly bonded 13CA. These effects therefore are a consequence of rotational resonance, which is a well-known phenomenon. Yet the magnitude of this effect pertaining to chemical shift assignment has not previously been examined. To quantify these effects in high-resolution protein spectra, we performed exact numerical two- and four-spin simulations of the C′ lineshapes, which reproduced the experimentally observed features. Observed peak positions differ from the isotropic shift by up to 1.0 ppm, even for MAS rates relatively far (a few ppm) from rotational resonance. Although under these circumstances the correct isotropic chemical shift values may be determined through simulation, systematic errors are minimized when the MAS rate is equivalent to ∼85 ppm for 13C. This moderate MAS condition simplifies spectral assignment and enables data sets from different labeling patterns and spinning rates to be used most efficiently for structure determination.

Graphical abstract: Isotropic chemical shifts in magic-angle spinning NMR spectra of proteins

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Jul 2007
Accepted
19 Oct 2007
First published
05 Nov 2007

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2008,10, 405-413

Isotropic chemical shifts in magic-angle spinning NMR spectra of proteins

B. J. Wylie, L. J. Sperling and C. M. Rienstra, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2008, 10, 405 DOI: 10.1039/B710736F

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