“…Membrane proteins that can only be obtained in relatively small quantities (hundreds of micrograms or less) will benefit from technical developments that improve resolution and sensitivity. Recent such developments include microcoil MAS and microsamples (Takeda, 2012), fast MAS at 100 kHz and above (Agarwal et al, 2014;André et al, 2015;Böckmann et al, 2015), MAS with the sample at cryogenic temperatures (Barnes et al, 2009;Concistrè et al, 2013;Thurber & Tycko, 2008;Tycko, 2013), DNP-enhanced MAS (Akbey et al, 2013;Koers et al, 2014;Maciejko et al, 2015;Smith et al, 2015;Su et al, 2015) and higher field (1 GHz plus) magnets (Hashi et al, 2015). Deuteration of the protein and sample allows acquisition of high-resolution solid-state NMR proton spectra that are useful for membrane protein structure determination (Reif, 2012), it also improves T 2 relaxation times and resolution that facilitate sequential backbone assignments using 13 C-detected experiments (Tang et al, 2010).…”