Chemical shift labeling experiment

Fig. 2 (a) DRAMA pulse sequence (using % = t/2 = rr/4 in the text) and a representative calculated dipolar recoupled frequency domain spectrum (reproduced from [23] with permission), (b) RFDR pulse sequence inserted as mixing block in a 2D 13C-13C chemical shift correlation experiment, along with an experimental spectrum of 13C-labeled alanine (reproduced from [24] with permission), (c) Rotational resonance inversion sequence along with an n = 3 rotational resonance differential dephasing curve for 13C-labeled alanine (reproduced from [21] with permission), (d) Double-quantum HORROR experiment along with a 2D HORROR nutation spectrum of 13C2-2,3-L-alanine (reproduced from [26] with permission)... 

Figure 5.3 GHMBC spectrum of a colored impurity formed during the synthesis of Tipranavir. The long-range delay in the experiment was optimized for 10 Hz the data were acquired in 12.5 h. Chemical shift labels show the chemical shift of the carbon to which a given proton is long-range coupled. As can be seen by simple inspection, there was considerable degradation of the sample during the course of the data acquisition as there are peaks in the contour plot corresponding to responses that were not observed in the proton spectrum taken at the outset of data acquisition, which is plotted above the contour plot.

Fig. 10.18. IDR (Inverted Direct Response)—HSQC-TOCSY pulse sequence. The experiment first uses an HSQC sequence to label protons with the chemical shift of their directly bound carbons, followed by an isotropic mixing period that propagates magnetization to vicinal neighbor and more distant protons. The extent to which magnetization is propagated in the experiment is a function of both the size of the intervening vicinal coupling constants and the duration of the mixing period. After isotropic mixing, direct responses are inverted by the experiment and proton detection begins.

Thus, the magnetization is transferred from the amide proton to the attached nitrogen and then simultaneously to the intra- and interresidual 13C spins and sequential 13C spin. The 13C chemical shift is labelled during /, and 13C frequency during t2. The desired coherence is transferred back to the amide proton in the identical but reverse coherence transfer pathway. The 15N chemical shift is frequency labelled during t3, and implemented into the 13C 15N back-INEPT step. The sensitivity of the HNCOmCA-TROSY experiment is excellent and nearly similar to HNCA-TROSY except for the inherent sensitivity loss by a factor of /2, arising from additional quadrature detection needed for 13C frequency discrimination in the fourth dimension. The excellent sensitivity is due to a very efficient coherence transfer pathway,... 

As in the case of the HN(CO)CA-TROSY scheme, the HN(CO)CANH-TROSY experiment can be readily expanded to a four-dimensional HN(CO)CANH-TROSY experiment without increasing the overall length of the pulse sequence. This can be accomplished by labelling the 13C (f) chemical shift during additional incremented time delay, implemented into the 13C — 13C INEPT delay. As a result, a well-dispersed 13C (i- 1), 13C (i- 1), 15N(i), Hn(0 correlation map is obtained with minimal resonance overlap albeit with the inherent sensitivity loss by a factor of y/2. 

Other enzyme-substrate or inhibitor interaction studies80 82 have been addressed, using a combination of STD and trNOE NMR experiments, in order to collect details on the substrate bound conformation (ligand perspective). In other cases, the availability of a labelled protein receptor83 have permitted to follow the induced chemical shift variations of the protein resonances upon ligand addition to the NMR tube by HSQC methods (protein perspective). 

The l3C NMR spectrum of the C4H7+ cation in superacid solution shows a single peak for the three methylene carbon atoms (72) This equivalence can be explained by a nonclassical single symmetric (three-fold) structure. However, studies on the solvolysis of labeled cyclopropylcarbinyl derivatives suggest a degenerate equilibrium among carbocations with lower symmetry, instead of the three-fold symmetrical species (13). A small temperature dependence of the l3C chemical shifts indicated the presence of two carbocations, one of them in small amounts but still in equilibrium with the major species (13). This conclusion was supported by isotope perturbation experiments performed by Saunders and Siehl (14). The classical cyclopropylcarbinyl cation and the nonclassical bicyclobutonium cation were considered as the most likely species participating in this equilibrium. 

The DD-CSA cross-correlated relaxation, namely that between 13C-1H dipole and 31P-CSA, can also be used to determine backbone a and C angles in RNA [65]. The experiment requires oligonucleotides that are 13C-labeled in the sugar moiety. First, 1H-coupled, / - DQ//Q-II CP spectra are measured. DQ and ZQ spectra are obtained by linear combinations of four subspectra recorded for each q-increment. Then, the cross-relaxation rates are calculated from the peak intensity ratios of the doublets in the DQ and ZQ spectra. The observed cross-correlation rates depend on the relative orientations of CH dipoles with respect to the components of the 31P chemical shift tensor. As the components of the 31P chemical shift tensor in RNA are not known, the barium salt of diethyl phosphate was used as a model compound with the principal components values of -76 ppm, -16 ppm and 103 ppm, respectively [106]. Since the measured cross-correlation rates are a function of the angles / and e as well, these angles need to be determined independently using 3/(H, P) and 3/(C, P) coupling constants. 

Fig. 10.5 Sequential resonance assignment of the polypeptide backbone of 2H, 3C, 5N-labeled DHNA using the HNCA triple resonance experiment, which connects the Hn and 15N resonances of the amide groups with the sequential and intraresidual 13C chemical shifts. The dotted...

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