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Distribution of Pico- and Nanosecond Motions in Disordered Proteins from Nuclear Spin Relaxation

Khan, Shahid N.
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Charlier, Cyril
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Augustyniak, Rafal
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2015
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are ubiquitous in the eukaryotic proteome. The description and understanding of their conformational properties require the development of new experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches. Here, we use nuclear spin relaxation to investigate the distribution of timescales of motions in an IDR from picoseconds to nanoseconds. Nitrogen-15 relaxation rates have been measured at five magnetic fields, ranging from 9.4 to 23.5 T (400-1000 MHz for protons). This exceptional wealth of data allowed us to map the spectral density function for the motions of backbone NH pairs in the partially disordered transcription factor Engrailed at 11 different frequencies. We introduce an approach called interpretation of motions by a projection onto an array of correlation times (IMPACT), which focuses on an array of six correlation times with intervals that are equidistant on a logarithmic scale between 21 ps and 21 ns. The distribution of motions in Engrailed varies smoothly along the protein sequence and is multimodal for most residues, with a prevalence of motions around 1 ns in the IDR. We show that IMPACT often provides better quantitative agreement with experimental data than conventional model-free or extended model-free analyses with two or three correlation times. We introduce a graphical representation that offers a convenient platform for a qualitative discussion of dynamics. Even when relaxation data are only acquired at three magnetic fields that are readily accessible, the IMPACT analysis gives a satisfactory characterization of spectral density functions, thus opening the way to a broad use of this approach.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.bpj.2015.06.069
Web of Science ID

WOS:000360960500016

Author(s)
Khan, Shahid N.
Charlier, Cyril
Augustyniak, Rafal
Salvi, Nicola  
Dejean, Victoire
Bodenhausen, Geoffrey  
Lequin, Olivier
Pelupessy, Philippe  
Ferrage, Fabien
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Elsevier

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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume

109

Issue

5

Start page

988

End page

999

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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November 10, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/120518
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