The determination of coupling constants in biomacromolecules provides information about local conformations and complements the structural information obtained from NOEs.1 * To whom correspondence should be addressed.
We introduce the C'-FIDS-(1)H,(15)N-HSQC experiment, a new method for the determination of (3)J(H (infi) (supN) ,C (infi) (sup') ) coupling constants in proteins, yielding information about the torsional angle ϕ. It relies on the (1)H,(15)N-HSQC or HNCO experiment, two of the the most sensitive heteronuclear correlation experiments for isotopically labeled proteins. A set of three (1)H,(15)N-HSQC or HNCO spectra are recorded: a reference experiment in which the carbonyl spins are decoupled during t(1) and t(2), a second experiment in which they are decoupled exclusively during t(1) and a third one in which they are coupled in t(1) as well as t(2). The last experiment yields an E.COSY-type pattern from which the (2)J(H (infi) (supN) ,C (infi-1) (sup') ) and (1)J(N(i),C (infi-1) (sup') ) coupling constants can be extracted. By comparison of the coupled multiplet (obtained from the second experiment) with the decoupled multiplet (obtained from the first experiment) convoluted with the (2)J(H (infi) (supN) ,C (infi-1) (sup') ) coupling, the (3)J(H (infi) (supN) ,C (infi) (sup') ) coupling can be found in a one-parameter fitting procedure. The method is demonstrated for the protein rhodniin, containing 103 amino acids. Systematic errors due to differential relaxation are small for (n)J(H(N),C') couplings in biomacromolecules of the size currently under NMR spectroscopic investigation.
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