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Publication Abstract from PubMed

A lanthanide complex, named CLaNP (caged lanthanide NMR probe) has been developed for the characterisation of proteins by paramagnetic NMR spectroscopy. The probe consists of a lanthanide chelated by a derivative of DTPA (diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid) with two thiol reactive functional groups. The CLaNP molecule is attached to a protein by two engineered, surface-exposed, Cys residues in a bidentate manner. This drastically limits the dynamics of the metal relative to the protein and enables measurements of pseudocontact shifts. NMR spectroscopy experiments on a diamagnetic control and the crystal structure of the probe-protein complex demonstrate that the protein structure is not affected by probe attachment. The probe is able to induce pseudocontact shifts to at least 40 A from the metal and causes residual dipolar couplings due to alignment at a high magnetic field. The molecule exists in several isomeric forms with different paramagnetic tensors; this provides a fast way to obtain long-range distance restraints.

A caged lanthanide complex as a paramagnetic shift agent for protein NMR.,Prudencio M, Rohovec J, Peters JA, Tocheva E, Boulanger MJ, Murphy ME, Hupkes HJ, Kosters W, Impagliazzo A, Ubbink M Chemistry. 2004 Jul 5;10(13):3252-60. PMID:15224334^[1]

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