1H-Detected Biomolecular NMR under Fast Magic-Angle Spinning

T Le Marchand, T Schubeis, M Bonaccorsi… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Since the first pioneering studies on small deuterated peptides dating more than 20 years
ago, 1H detection has evolved into the most efficient approach for investigation of …

NMR spectroscopy captures the essential role of dynamics in regulating biomolecular function

TR Alderson, LE Kay - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Biomolecules are in constant motion. To understand how they function, and why
malfunctions can cause disease, it is necessary to describe their three-dimensional …

Structural and hydrodynamic properties of an intrinsically disordered region of a germ cell-specific protein on phase separation

JP Brady, PJ Farber, A Sekhar, YH Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Membrane encapsulation is frequently used by the cell to sequester biomolecules and
compartmentalize their function. Cells also concentrate molecules into phase-separated …

The ensemble nature of allostery

HN Motlagh, JO Wrabl, J Li, VJ Hilser - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Allostery is the process by which biological macromolecules (mostly proteins) transmit the
effect of binding at one site to another, often distal, functional site, allowing for regulation of …

Excited-state observation of active K-Ras reveals differential structural dynamics of wild-type versus oncogenic G12D and G12C mutants

AL Hansen, X Xiang, C Yuan… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the prominent role of the K-Ras protein in many different types of human cancer,
major gaps in atomic-level information severely limit our understanding of its functions in …

An introduction to NMR-based approaches for measuring protein dynamics

IR Kleckner, MP Foster - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Proteins are inherently flexible at ambient temperature. At equilibrium, they are
characterized by a set of conformations that undergo continuous exchange within a …

Studying “invisible” excited protein states in slow exchange with a major state conformation

P Vallurupalli, G Bouvignies, LE Kay - Journal of the American …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Ever since its initial development, solution NMR spectroscopy has been used as a tool to
study conformational exchange. Although many systems are amenable to relaxation …

Theory, practice, and applications of paramagnetic relaxation enhancement for the characterization of transient low-population states of biological macromolecules …

GM Clore, J Iwahara - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Understanding the function of biological macromolecules and their complexes at the
physicochemical level requires knowledge of both their structure and dynamics …

Intrinsic dynamics of an enzyme underlies catalysis

EZ Eisenmesser, O Millet, W Labeikovsky… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
A unique feature of chemical catalysis mediated by enzymes is that the catalytically reactive
atoms are embedded within a folded protein. Although current understanding of enzyme …

A dynamic knockout reveals that conformational fluctuations influence the chemical step of enzyme catalysis

G Bhabha, J Lee, DC Ekiert, J Gam, IA Wilson… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Conformational dynamics play a key role in enzyme catalysis. Although protein motions
have clear implications for ligand flux, a role for dynamics in the chemical step of enzyme …