Solid-State NMR Spin Diffusion for Measurement of Membrane-Bound Peptide Structure: Gramicidin A
- 27 May 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 43 (24) , 7899-7906
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi0356101
Abstract
A recently developed solid-state NMR method for measurement of depths in membrane systems is applied to gramicidin A, a membrane-bound peptide of known structure, to investigate the potential of this method. 15N-detected, 1H spin diffusion experiments demonstrate the resolution of the technique by measuring the 4−5 Å depth differences between three 15N-labeled backbone sites (Trp13, Val7, Gly2) in gramicidin A. We also show that 13C-detected, 1H spin diffusion experiments on unlabeled gramicidin A are sufficient to discriminate between the end-to-end dimer and double-helix structures of gramicidin A. Thus, spin diffusion solid-state NMR experiments can provide a simple approach, which does not require labeled samples, for testing structural models of membrane-bound peptides.Keywords
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