Volume 44, Number 3, 157-166, DOI: 10.1007/s10858-009-9325-z

Two-point anchoring of a lanthanide-binding peptide to a target protein enhances the paramagnetic anisotropic effect

Tomohide Saio, Kenji Ogura, Masashi Yokochi, Yoshihiro Kobashigawa and Fuyuhiko Inagaki

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Abstract

Paramagnetic lanthanide ions fixed in a protein frame induce several paramagnetic effects such as pseudo-contact shifts and residual dipolar couplings. These effects provide long-range distance and angular information for proteins and, therefore, are valuable in protein structural analysis. However, until recently this approach had been restricted to metal-binding proteins, but now it has become applicable to non-metalloproteins through the use of a lanthanide-binding tag. Here we report a lanthanide-binding peptide tag anchored via two points to the target proteins. Compared to conventional single-point attached tags, the two-point linked tag provides two to threefold stronger anisotropic effects. Though there is slight residual mobility of the lanthanide-binding tag, the present tag provides a higher anisotropic paramagnetic effect.

Keywords  Lanthanide binding peptide tag - Two-point anchoring - Paramagnetic NMR - Pseudo-contact shift - Residual dipolar coupling

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