Counting the Monomers in Nanometer-Sized Oligomers by Pulsed Electron−Electron Double Resonance
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- 1 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 129 (21) , 6736-6745
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja065787t
Abstract
In a lot of cases active biomolecules are complexes of higher order, thus methods capable of counting the number of building blocks and elucidating their geometric arrangement are needed. Therefore, we experimentally validate here spin-counting via 4-pulse electron−electron double resonance (PELDOR) on well-defined test samples. Two biradicals, a symmetric and an asymmetric triradical, and a tetraradical were synthesized in a convergent reaction scheme via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. PELDOR was then used to obtain geometric information and the number of spin centers per molecule in a single experiment. The measurement yielded the expected distances (2.2−3.8 nm) and showed that different spin−spin distances in one molecule can be resolved even if the difference amounts to only 5 Å. The number of spins n has been determined to be 2.1 in both biradicals, to 3.1 and 3.0 in the symmetric and asymmetric triradicals, respectively, and to 3.9 in the tetraradical. The overall error of PELDOR spin-counting was found to be 5% for up to four spins. Thus, this method is a valuable tool to determine the number of constituting spin-bearing monomers in biologically relevant homo- and heterooligomers and how their oligomerization state and geometric arrangement changes during function.Keywords
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