ISSN:
0006-3525
Keywords:
Chemistry
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Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The 13C off-resonance rotating frame spin-lattice relaxation technique is applicable to the study of protein rotational diffusion behavior in a variety of experimental situations. The original formalism of James and co-workers (1978) (J. Am. Chem. Soc. Vol. 100, pp. 3590-3594) incorporated random isotropic reorientational motion of a rigid spherical rotor with no provision for backbone or side-chain carbonyl group internal motion. Here we demonstrate that the failure to include such internal motion may lead to erroneous rotational correlation time determinations for overall reorientational motion. The effect becomes severe for protein molecular masses in excess of 100 kD. Inclusion of both backbone and side-chain carbonyl carbon internal motion, using reasonable parameters derived from the literature [R. Levy and M. Karplus (1979), Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 65, pp. 4-11; G. Careri, P. Fasella, and E. Gratton (1975), Critical Reviews in Biochemistry, Vol. 3, pp. 141-164; G. Lipari, A. Szabo, and R. Levy (1982), Nature, Vol. 300, pp. 197-198], plus corrections for anisotropic tumbling [C. F. Morgan, T. Schleich, G. H. Caines, and D. Michael (1990), Biopolymers, Vol. 29, pp. 469-480] and microscopic viscosity [S. H. Koenig (1980), ACS Symposium. Series, Vol. 127, pp. 157-176], leads to reliable values for the correlation time describing overall protein reorientation up to molecular masses of approximately 1000 kD. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Material:
2 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bip.360331008
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