Rodella Maria Anna, Schneider Robert, Kümmerle Rainer, Felli Isabella C, Pierattelli Roberta
Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" and Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Bruker BioSpin AG, Fällanden, Switzerland.
J Biomol NMR. 2025 Mar;79(1):15-24. doi: 10.1007/s10858-024-00453-8. Epub 2025 Jan 22.
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions are central to many biological processes but difficult to characterize at atomic resolution. Nuclear magnetic resonance is particularly well-suited for providing structural and dynamical information on intrinsically disordered proteins, but existing NMR methodologies need to be constantly refined to provide greater sensitivity and resolution, particularly to capitalise on the potential of high magnetic fields to investigate large proteins. In this paper, we describe how N-detected 2D NMR experiments can be optimised for better performance. We show that using selective aliphatic H decoupling in N-TROSY type experiments results in significant increases in sensitivity and resolution for a prototypical intrinsically disordered protein, α-synuclein, as well as for a heterogeneous intrinsically disordered region of a large multidomain protein, CBP-ID4. We also investigated the performance of incorporating longitudinal relaxation enhancement in N-TROSY experiments, both with and without aliphatic H decoupling, and discussed the findings in light of the available information for the two systems.
内在无序蛋白质和蛋白质区域在许多生物过程中起着核心作用,但难以在原子分辨率下进行表征。核磁共振特别适合于提供关于内在无序蛋白质的结构和动力学信息,但现有的核磁共振方法需要不断改进,以提供更高的灵敏度和分辨率,特别是要利用高磁场的潜力来研究大蛋白质。在本文中,我们描述了如何优化N检测二维核磁共振实验以获得更好的性能。我们表明,在N-TROSY型实验中使用选择性脂肪族H去耦会显著提高原型内在无序蛋白质α-突触核蛋白以及大型多结构域蛋白质CBP-ID4的异质内在无序区域的灵敏度和分辨率。我们还研究了在N-TROSY实验中加入纵向弛豫增强的性能,包括有无脂肪族H去耦,并根据这两个系统的现有信息讨论了研究结果。