NMR characterization of the dynamics of biomacromolecules

AG Palmer III - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Function in biological systems is exquisitely dependent on spatial and temporal changes in
biomacromolecules. Innumerable biological processes ultimately rely on transduction of …

Residual dipolar couplings in structure determination of biomolecules

JH Prestegard, CM Bougault, AI Kishore - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
The use of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) in the analysis of biomolecular structure and
dynamics has expanded rapidly since its potential as a source of structural information on …

Studying excited states of proteins by NMR spectroscopy

FAA Mulder, A Mittermaier, B Hon, FW Dahlquist… - Nature structural …, 2001 - nature.com
Protein structure is inherently dynamic, with function often predicated on excursions from low
to higher energy conformations. For example, X-ray studies of a cavity mutant of T4 …

Weak alignment offers new NMR opportunities to study protein structure and dynamics

AD Bax - Protein Science, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Protein solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can be conducted in a slightly
anisotropic environment, where the orientational distribution of the proteins is no longer …

Solution structure of Ca2+–calmodulin reveals flexible hand-like properties of its domains

JJ Chou, S Li, CB Klee, A Bax - Nature structural biology, 2001 - nature.com
The solution structure of Ca2+-ligated calmodulin is determined from residual dipolar
couplings measured in a liquid crystalline medium and from a large number of …

NMR residual dipolar couplings as probes of biomolecular dynamics

JR Tolman, K Ruan - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
Since the first applications of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) to biomolecular systems
approximately a decade ago, RDCs have rapidly emerged as a standard tool for the …

Lessons from the lysozyme of phage T4

WA Baase, L Liu, DE Tronrud, BW Matthews - Protein Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
An overview is presented of some of the major insights that have come from studies of the
structure, stability, and folding of T4 phage lysozyme. A major purpose of this review is to …

Recent progress in the study of biomolecular structure and dynamics in solution from residual dipolar couplings

M Blackledge - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2005 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is now established as the method of
choice for the study of the structure and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids in solution …

A simple apparatus for generating stretched polyacrylamide gels, yielding uniform alignment of proteins and detergent micelles

JJ Chou, S Gaemers, B Howder, JM Louis… - Journal of biomolecular …, 2001 - Springer
Compressed and stretched polyacrylamide hydrogels previously have been shown to offer a
robust method for aligning proteins. A simple, funnel-like apparatus is described for …

Residual dipolar couplings in NMR structure analysis

RS Lipsitz, N Tjandra - Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) have recently emerged as a new tool in
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with which to study macromolecular structure and …