Intermolecular Interactions and Protein Dynamics by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the dynamics of interacting proteins is a crucial step toward describing many biophysical processes. Here we investigate the backbone dynamics for protein GB1 in two different assemblies: crystalline GB1 and the precipitated GB1-antibody complex with a molecular weight of more than 300 kDa. We perform these measurements on samples containing as little as eight nanomoles of GB1. From measurements of site-specific ¹⁵N relaxation rates including relaxation dispersion we obtain snapshots of dynamics spanning nine orders of magnitude in terms of the time scale. A comparison of measurements for GB1 in either environment reveals that while many of the dynamic features of the protein are conserved between them (in particular for the fast picosecond-nanosecond motions), muc

SUBMITTER: Lamley JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4954056 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature