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Rapid assessment of Watson–Crick to Hoogsteen exchange in unlabeled DNA duplexes using high-power SELOPE imino 1H CEST
Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
Atul Rangadurai
Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
Honglue Shi
Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Hashim M. Al-Hashimi
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Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Anomalous amide proton chemical shifts as signatures of hydrogen bonding to aromatic sidechains
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Structural polymorphism and substrate promiscuity of a ribosome-associated molecular chaperone
Small-molecule inhibitors of the PDZ domain of Dishevelled proteins interrupt Wnt signalling
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We used NMR to sequentially assign the side-chain resonances of the cytosolic domain of glycoprotein n of the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. The combination of cell-free protein synthesis with high-field NMR and artificial intelligence approaches facilitated a time- and effort-efficient approach. Our results will be harnessed to study the membrane-bound form of the domain and its interactions with virulence factors, which will ultimately help to understand their role in disease.
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Installing a tag containing a paramagnetic metal ion on a protein can lead to large changes (pseudocontact shifts) in the resonances observed in NMR spectra. These are easily measured and contain valuable long-range structural information. The present work shows that a single tagging site furnished with different tags can be sufficient to localise atoms in proteins with high accuracy. In fact, this strategy works almost as well as the same number of tags distributed over multiple tagging sites.
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Christopher A. Waudby and John Christodoulou
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Rubin Dasgupta, Karthick B. S. S. Gupta, Huub J. M. de Groot, and Marcellus Ubbink
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Sreelakshmi Mekkattu Tharayil, Mithun Chamikara Mahawaththa, Choy-Theng Loh, Ibidolapo Adekoya, and Gottfried Otting
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Short summary
There is growing interest in mapping exchange dynamics between Watson–Crick and Hoogsteen conformations across different DNA contexts. However, current methods are ill-suited for measurements at a large scale because they require isotopically enriched samples. We report that Hoogsteen dynamics can be measured on unlabeled samples using 1H CEST experiments, which have higher throughput and lower cost relative to conventional methods and also provide new insights into Hoogsteen dynamics.
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