Deuterium isotope effects on 15N backbone chemical shifts in proteins.

ABSTRACT: Quantum mechanical calculations are presented that predict that one-bond deuterium isotope effects on the (15)N chemical shift of backbone amides of proteins, (1)Delta(15)N(D), are sensitive to backbone conformation and hydrogen bonding. A quantitative empirical model for (1)Delta(15)N(D) including the backbone dihedral angles, Phi and Psi, and the hydrogen bonding geometry is presented for glycine and amino acid residues with aliphatic side chains. The effect of hydrogen bonding is rationalized in part as an electric-field effect on the first derivative of the nuclear shielding with respect to N-H bond length. Another contributing factor is the effect of increased anharmonicity of the N-H stretching vibrational state upon hydrogen bonding, which results in an altered N-H/N-D equilibrium b

SUBMITTER: Abildgaard J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2697368 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature