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  • Title: Accurate measurements of the effects of deuteration at backbone amide positions on the chemical shifts of ¹⁵N, ¹³Cα, ¹³Cβ, ¹³CO and ¹Hα nuclei in proteins.
    Author: Zhang D, Tugarinov V.
    Journal: J Biomol NMR; 2013 Jun; 56(2):169-82. PubMed ID: 23612994.
    Abstract:
    An approach towards accurate NMR measurements of deuterium isotope effects on the chemical shifts of all backbone nuclei in proteins ((15)N, (13)Cα, (13)CO, (1)Hα) and (13)Cβ nuclei arising from (1)H-to-D substitutions at amide nitrogen positions is described. Isolation of molecular species with a defined protonation/deuteration pattern at successive backbone nitrogen positions in the polypeptide chain allows quantifying all deuterium isotope shifts of these nuclei from the first to the fourth order. Some of the deuterium isotope shifts measured in the proteins ubiquitin and GB1 can be interpreted in terms of backbone geometry via empirical relationships describing their dependence on (φ; ψ) backbone dihedral angles. Because of their relatively large variability and notable dependence on the protein secondary structure, the two- and three-bond (13)Cα isotope shifts, (2)ΔCα(NiD) and (3)ΔCα(Ni+1D), and three-bond (13)Cβ isotope shifts, (3)ΔCβ(NiD), are useful reporters of the local geometry of the protein backbone.
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