Evaluation and Optimization of Coherence Transfer in High Molecular Weight Systems

ISSN： 1090-7807

Source： Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Vol.155, Iss.1, 2002-03, pp. : 123-130

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Abstract

For very large proteins in the highest magnetic fields, the large chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) of carbonyl carbon deteriorates coherence transfer efficiency in experiments designed for unambiguous sequential backbone assignment. In this communication, coherence throughput of several TROSY experiments is evaluated. Two new experiments, MP-HNCA and HN(CO)CANH, are also introduced as attractive alternatives for sequential assignment purposes of large proteins with correlation time over 50 ns. Their theoretical coherence transfer efficiencies for the interresidual ¹³C^α correlations are significantly better than in recently introduced MP-CT-HNCA and sequential HNCA experiments. The improvement with the new experiments is observed already on 60.8 kDa homodimer of protein Cel6A at 800 ¹H MHz. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).