High-resolution proton and laser photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization NMR studies of cation binding to bovine .alpha.-lactalbumin

Biochemistry ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (18) ◽  
pp. 5769-5774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Berliner ◽  
Keiko Koga ◽  
Hiroyasu Nishikawa ◽  
Julie E. Scheffler

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4649
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Overall ◽  
Lauren E. Price ◽  
Brice J. Albert ◽  
Chukun Gao ◽  
Nicholas Alaniva ◽  
...  

We demonstrate for the first time in-cell dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) in conjunction with flow cytometry sorting to address the cellular heterogeneity of in-cell samples. Utilizing a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter of HIV reactivation, we correlate increased 15N resonance intensity with cytokine-driven HIV reactivation in a human cell line model of HIV latency. As few as 10% GFP+ cells could be detected by DNP nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The inclusion of flow cytometric sorting of GFP+ cells prior to analysis by DNP-NMR further boosted signal detection through increased cellular homogeneity with respect to GFP expression. As few as 3.6 million 15N-labeled GFP+ cells could be readily detected with DNP-NMR. Importantly, cell sorting allowed for the comparison of cytokine-treated GFP+ and GFP− cells in a batch-consistent way. This provides an avenue for normalizing NMR spectral contributions from background cellular processes following treatment with cellular modulators. We also demonstrate the remarkable stability of AMUPol (a nitroxide biradical) in Jurkat T cells and achieved in-cell enhancements of 46 with 10 mM AMUPol, providing an excellent model system for further in-cell DNP-NMR studies. This represents an important contribution to improving in-cell methods for the study of endogenously expressed proteins by DNP-NMR.





Biomolecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1246
Author(s):  
Nhi T. Tran ◽  
Frédéric Mentink-Vigier ◽  
Joanna R. Long

While atomic scale structural and dynamic information are hallmarks of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methodologies, sensitivity is a fundamental limitation in NMR studies. Fully exploiting NMR capabilities to study membrane proteins is further hampered by their dilution within biological membranes. Recent developments in dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), which can transfer the relatively high polarization of unpaired electrons to nuclear spins, show promise for overcoming the sensitivity bottleneck and enabling NMR characterization of membrane proteins under native-like conditions. Here we discuss fundamental aspects of DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy, experimental details relevant to the study of lipid assemblies and incorporated proteins, and sensitivity gains which can be realized in biomembrane-based samples. We also present unique insights which can be gained from DNP measurements and prospects for further development of the technique for elucidating structures and orientations of membrane proteins in native lipid environments.



2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 8150-8163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Mentink-Vigier ◽  
Guinevere Mathies ◽  
Yangping Liu ◽  
Anne-Laure Barra ◽  
Marc A. Caporini ◽  
...  

The mixed trityl-TEMPO biradical TEMTriPol-1 provides excellent MAS NMR sensitivity with DNP while avoiding nuclear depolarization.



1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Zhou ◽  
Baolian Yang ◽  
Jianzhi Hu ◽  
Hongbing Hu ◽  
Liyun Li ◽  
...  


2020 ◽  
Vol 313 ◽  
pp. 106719
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Keller ◽  
Alexander J. Laut ◽  
Jagadishwar Sirigiri ◽  
Thorsten Maly


2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 515-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Korchak ◽  
A. S. Kiryutin ◽  
K. L. Ivanov ◽  
A. V. Yurkovskaya ◽  
Yu. A. Grishin ◽  
...  


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