A New Paradigm of Protein Structures by Variable Pressure NMR

  • KITAHARA Ryo
    RIKEN Spring-8 Center, RIKEN Harima Institute
  • YOKOYAMA Shigeyuki
    RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
  • AKASAKA Kazuyuki
    RIKEN Spring-8 Center, RIKEN Harima Institute Department of Biotechnological Science School of Biology -Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University

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  • 可変圧力NMR法による新しい蛋白質構造パラダイムの構築
  • カヘン アツリョク NMRホウ ニ ヨル アタラシイ タンパクシツ コウゾウ パラダイム ノ コウチク

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Abstract

A protein in solution is a thermodynamic entity existing in equilibria among multiple conformations from the folded to the unfolded. Various experimental results indicate that transitions to higher energy conformers are crucial for function in many proteins. However, our knowledge on higher energy conformers is extremely limited at present, compared to the knowledge about the folded counterparts. A newly emerging technique, the variable pressure NMR method, enables us to explore a much wider conformational space of proteins than hitherto explored by X-ray crystallography and conventional NMR technique, giving a new dynamic view of proteins that amply fluctuate over the entire conformational space.

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