How does it really move? Recent progress in the investigation of protein nanosecond dynamics by NMR and simulation

O Stenström, C Champion, M Lehner… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin relaxation experiments currently probe molecular
motions on timescales from picoseconds to nanoseconds. The detailed interpretation of …

Deuteration for high-resolution detection of protons in protein magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR

B Reif - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proton detection developed in the last 20 years as the method of choice to study
biomolecules in the solid state. In perdeuterated proteins, proton dipolar interactions are …

[HTML][HTML] The intriguing molecular dynamics of Cer [EOS] in rigid skin barrier lipid layers requires improvement of the model

F Fandrei, T Havrišák, L Opálka, O Engberg… - Journal of Lipid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Omega-O-acyl ceramides such as 32-linoleoyloxydotriacontanoyl sphingosine (Cer [EOS])
are essential components of the lipid skin barrier, which protects our body from excessive …

Analytical framework to understand the origins of methyl side-chain dynamics in protein assemblies

K Zumpfe, M Berbon, B Habenstein… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Side-chain motions play an important role in understanding protein structure, dynamics,
protein–protein, and protein–ligand interactions. However, our understanding of protein side …

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 …

A method to construct the dynamic landscape of a bio-membrane with experiment and simulation

AA Smith, A Vogel, O Engberg, PW Hildebrand… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biomolecular function is based on a complex hierarchy of molecular motions. While
biophysical methods can reveal details of specific motions, a concept for the comprehensive …

Analysis of the dynamics of the human growth hormone secretagogue receptor reveals insights into the energy landscape of the molecule

AA Smith, EM Pacull, S Stecher… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
G protein‐coupled receptors initiate signal transduction in response to ligand binding.
Growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR), the focus of this study, binds the 28 …

Recent advances in solid-state relaxation dispersion techniques

P Rovo - Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 2020 - Elsevier
This review describes two rotating-frame (R 1 ρ) relaxation dispersion methods, namely the
Bloch-McConnell Relaxation Dispersion and the Near-rotary Resonance Relaxation …

Model-free or not?

K Zumpfe, AA Smith - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Relaxation in nuclear magnetic resonance is a powerful method for obtaining spatially
resolved, timescale-specific dynamics information about molecular systems. However …

Microsecond motions probed by near-rotary-resonance R 15N MAS NMR experiments: the model case of protein overall-rocking in crystals

A Krushelnitsky, D Gauto… - Journal of biomolecular …, 2018 - Springer
Solid-state near-rotary-resonance measurements of the spin–lattice relaxation rate in the
rotating frame (R 1ρ) is a powerful NMR technique for studying molecular dynamics in the …