In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

Physics of viral dynamics

RF Bruinsma, GJL Wuite, WH Roos - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Viral capsids are often regarded as inert structural units, but in actuality they display
fascinating dynamics during different stages of their life cycle. With the advent of single …

Viruses as biomaterials

T Yang, Y Chen, Y Xu, X Liu, M Yang, C Mao - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Viruses lacking the capacity to infect mammals exhibit minimal toxicity, good
biocompatibility, and well-defined structures. As self-organized biomolecular assemblies …

19F Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at Fast Magic Angle Spinning for NMR of HIV-1 Capsid Protein Assemblies

M Lu, M Wang, IV Sergeyev, CM Quinn… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report remarkably high, up to 100-fold, signal enhancements in 19F dynamic nuclear
polarization (DNP) magic angle spinning (MAS) spectra at 14.1 T on HIV-1 capsid protein …

Dynamic regulation of HIV-1 capsid interaction with the restriction factor TRIM5α identified by magic-angle spinning NMR and molecular dynamics simulations

CM Quinn, M Wang, MP Fritz, B Runge, J Ahn… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
The host factor protein TRIM5α plays an important role in restricting the host range of HIV-1,
interfering with the integrity of the HIV-1 capsid. TRIM5 triggers an antiviral innate immune …

Mechanistic Insights into Microsecond Time-Scale Motion of Solid Proteins Using Complementary 15N and 1H Relaxation Dispersion Techniques

P Rovó, CA Smith, D Gauto, BL de Groot… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
NMR relaxation dispersion methods provide a holistic way to observe microsecond time-
scale protein backbone motion both in solution and in the solid state. Different nuclei (1H …

[HTML][HTML] Solid-state NMR for studying the structure and dynamics of viral assemblies

L Lecoq, ML Fogeron, BH Meier, M Nassal… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Structural virology reveals the architecture underlying infection. While notably electron
microscopy images have provided an atomic view on viruses which profoundly changed our …

Fast Magic‐Angle Spinning 19F NMR Spectroscopy of HIV‐1 Capsid Protein Assemblies

M Wang, M Lu, MP Fritz, CM Quinn… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 19F NMR spectroscopy is an attractive and growing area of research with broad
applications in biochemistry, chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, and materials science …

A pocket-factor–triggered conformational switch in the hepatitis B virus capsid

L Lecoq, S Wang, M Dujardin, P Zimmermann… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Viral hepatitis is growing into an epidemic illness, and it is urgent to neutralize the main
culprit, hepatitis B virus (HBV), a small-enveloped retrotranscribing DNA virus. An intriguing …

On the use of ultracentrifugal devices for routine sample preparation in biomolecular magic-angle-spinning NMR

A Mandal, JC Boatz, TB Wheeler… - Journal of biomolecular …, 2017 - Springer
A number of recent advances in the field of magic-angle-spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR
have enabled its application to a range of biological systems of ever increasing complexity …