Paramagnetic chemical probes for studying biological macromolecules

Q Miao, C Nitsche, H Orton, M Overhand… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic chemical probes have been used in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for more than four decades. Recent …

Pseudocontact shifts in biomolecular NMR spectroscopy

T Müntener, D Joss, D Häussinger… - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic centers in biomolecules, such as specific metal ions that are bound to a
protein, affect the nuclei in their surrounding in various ways. One of these effects is the …

Structure determination of high-energy states in a dynamic protein ensemble

JB Stiller, R Otten, D Häussinger, PS Rieder… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Macromolecular function frequently requires that proteins change conformation into high-
energy states,,–. However, methods for solving the structures of these functionally essential …

Advances in NMR spectroscopy of weakly aligned biomolecular systems

SC Chiliveri, AJ Robertson, Y Shen, DA Torchia… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The measurement and application of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) in solution NMR
studies of biological macromolecules has become well established over the past quarter of a …

Paramagnetic NMR in drug discovery

CA Softley, MJ Bostock, GM Popowicz… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2020 - Springer
The presence of an unpaired electron in paramagnetic molecules generates significant
effects in NMR spectra, which can be exploited to provide restraints complementary to those …

Design and applications of lanthanide chelating tags for pseudocontact shift NMR spectroscopy with biomacromolecules

D Joss, D Häussinger - Progress in nuclear magnetic resonance …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review, lanthanide chelating tags and their applications to pseudocontact shift NMR
spectroscopy as well as analysis of residual dipolar couplings are covered. A complete …

Visualizing Proteins in Human Cells at Near‐Physiological Concentrations with Sensitive 19F NMR Chemical Tags

Z Chai, Q Wu, K Cheng, X Liu, Z Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In‐cell NMR spectroscopy is an effective tool for observing proteins at atomic resolution in
their native cellular environment. However, its utility is limited by its low sensitivity and the …

Nanobody GPS by PCS: an efficient new NMR analysis method for g protein coupled receptors and other large proteins

FJ Wu, PS Rieder, LA Abiko, P Rößler… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
NMR chemical shift changes can report on the functional dynamics of biomacromolecules in
solution with sizes> 1 MDa. However, their interpretation requires chemical shift …

Unexpected dynamics in femtomolar complexes of binding proteins with peptides

S Cucuzza, M Sitnik, S Jurt, E Michel, W Dai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ultra-tight binding is usually observed for proteins associating with rigidified molecules.
Previously, we demonstrated that femtomolar binders derived from the Armadillo repeat …

Tris-Silanide f-Block Complexes: Insights into Paramagnetic Influence on NMR Chemical Shifts

BLL Réant, FJ Mackintosh, GK Gransbury, CA Mattei… - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
The paramagnetism of f-block ions has been exploited in chiral shift reagents and magnetic
resonance imaging, but these applications tend to focus on 1H NMR shifts as paramagnetic …