Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892-0520, USA.
Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 29;10(1):4922. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12837-8.
Isotopically labeled methyl groups provide NMR probes in large, otherwise deuterated proteins. However, the resonance assignment constitutes a bottleneck for broader applicability of methyl-based NMR. Here, we present the automated MethylFLYA method for the assignment of methyl groups that is based on methyl-methyl nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) peak lists. MethylFLYA is applied to five proteins (28-358 kDa) comprising a total of 708 isotope-labeled methyl groups, of which 612 contribute NOESY cross peaks. MethylFLYA confidently assigns 488 methyl groups, i.e. 80% of those with NOESY data. Of these, 459 agree with the reference, 6 were different, and 23 were without reference assignment. MethylFLYA assigns significantly more methyl groups than alternative algorithms, has an average error rate of 1%, modest runtimes of 0.4-1.2 h, and can handle arbitrary isotope labeling patterns and data from other types of NMR spectra.
同位素标记的甲基基团可作为 NMR 探针用于大型氘代蛋白质。然而,共振分配是甲基 NMR 更广泛应用的瓶颈。在这里,我们提出了一种基于甲基-甲基核 Overhauser 效应光谱(NOESY)峰列表的自动甲基 FLYA 分配方法。MethylFLYA 适用于五个包含总共 708 个同位素标记甲基基团的蛋白质(28-358 kDa),其中 612 个贡献了 NOESY 交叉峰。MethylFLYA 可以自信地分配 488 个甲基基团,占具有 NOESY 数据的甲基基团的 80%。其中,459 个与参考值一致,6 个不同,23 个没有参考分配。MethylFLYA 分配的甲基基团数量明显多于其他算法,平均错误率为 1%,运行时间为 0.4-1.2 小时,可处理任意同位素标记模式和来自其他类型 NMR 谱的数据。