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Abstract

Biochemistry

High-Pressure NMR Experiments for Detecting Protein Low-Lying Conformational States

Published: June 29th, 2021

DOI:

10.3791/62701

1Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, 2Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University

Abstract

High-pressure is a well-known perturbation method that can be used to destabilize globular proteins and dissociate protein complexes in a reversible manner. Hydrostatic pressure drives thermodynamical equilibria toward the state(s) with the lower molar volume. Increasing pressure offers, therefore, the opportunities to finely tune the stability of globular proteins and the oligomerization equilibria of protein complexes. High-pressure NMR experiments allow a detailed characterization of the factors governing the stability of globular proteins, their folding mechanisms, and oligomerization mechanisms by combining the fine stability tuning ability of pressure perturbation and the site resolution offered by solution NMR spectroscopy. Here we present a protocol to probe the local folding stability of a protein via a set of 2D 1H-15N experiments recorded from 1 bar to 2.5 kbar. The steps required for the acquisition and analysis of such experiments are illustrated with data acquired on the RRM2 domain of hnRNPA1.

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Keywords High pressure NMR

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