Information distance

GM Crippen, TF Flavel. Stable calculations of coordinates from distance information. Acta Cryst A 34 282, 1978. 

The metric matrix is the matrix of all scalar products of position vectors of the atoms when the geometric center is placed in the origin. By application of the law of cosines, this matrix can be obtained from distance information only. Because it is invariant against rotation but not translation, the distances to the geometric center have to be calculated from the interatomic distances (see Fig. 3). The matrix allows the calculation of coordinates from distances in a single step, provided that all A atom(A atom l)/2 interatomic distances are known. 

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DG was primarily developed as a mathematical tool for obtaining spahal structures when pairwise distance information is given [118]. The DG method does not use any classical force fields. Thus, the conformational energy of a molecule is neglected and all 3D structures which are compatible with the distance restraints are presented. Nowadays, it is often used in the determination of 3D structures of small and medium-sized organic molecules. Gompared to force field-based methods, DG is a fast computational technique in order to scan the global conformational space. To get optimized structures, DG mostly has to be followed by various molecular dynamic simulation. 

The procedure of DG calculations can be subdivided in three separated steps [119-121]. At first, holonomic matrices (see below for explanahon) with pairwise distance upper and lower limits are generated from the topology of the molecule of interest. These limits can be further restrained by NOE-derived distance information which are obtained from NMR experiments. In a second step, random distances within the upper and lower limit are selected and are stored in a metric matrix. This operation is called metrization. Finally, all distances are converted into a complex geometry by mathematical operations. Hereby, the matrix-based distance space is projected into a Gartesian coordinate space (embedding). 

For processing, the data on energy consumption were collected, within the trade, it was travel distance, information on cargo and storage time of various foods. All data was obtained primarily from farmers, processors and traders, absent sufficient data, it was supplemented by data from available databases, especially the Ecoinvent database. 

In the following, we will discuss heteronuclear polarization-transfer techniques in four different contexts. They can be used as a polarization-transfer method to increase the sensitivity of a nucleus and to shorten the recycle delay of an experiment as it is widely used in 1H-13C or 1H-15N cross polarization. Heteronuclear polarization-transfer methods can also be used as the correlation mechanism in a multi-dimensional NMR experiment where, for example, the chemical shifts of two different spins are correlated. The third application is in measuring dipolar coupling constants in order to obtain distance information between selected nuclei as is often done in the REDOR experiment. Finally, heteronuclear polarization transfer also plays a role in measuring dihedral angles by generating heteronuclear double-quantum coherences. 

Fig. 18.1 Fragment combination strategies. Left In SAR by NMR [5], small molecular fragments that bind to the target are identified using protein-detected experiments. In the follow-up step, compounds bound in close proximity to one another are identified by chemical shift perturbation and intermolecular NOE experiments, and distance information is used to design and synthesize a linked compound. Center In fragment...

Structural information on aromatic donor molecule binding was obtained initially by using H NMR relaxation measurements to give distances from the heme iron atom to protons of the bound molecule. For example, indole-3-propionic acid, a structural homologue of the plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid, was found to bind approximately 9-10 A from the heme iron atom and at a particular angle to the heme plane (234). The disadvantage of this method is that the orientation with respect to the polypeptide chain cannot be defined. Other donor molecules examined include 4-methylphenol (p-cresol) (235), 3-hydroxyphenol (resorcinol), 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol and benzhydroxamic acid (236), methyl 2-pyridyl sulfide and methylp-tolyl sulfide (237), and L-tyrosine and D-tyrosine (238). Distance constraints of between 8.4 and 12.0 A have been reported (235-238). Aromatic donor proton to heme iron distances of 6 A reported earlier for aminotriazole and 3-hydroxyphenol (resorcinol) are too short because of an inappropriate estimate of the molecular correlation time (239), a parameter required for the calculations. Distance information for a series of aromatic phenols and amines bound to Mn(III)-substituted HRP C has been published (240). 

Conformational analysis of oligosaccharides in solution by NMR is mainly based on hydrogen-hydrogen distance information obtained from the nuclear Overhauser effect (n.O.e.) ( ). Other independent NMR... 

Until now, the determination of three-dimensional structures of oligosaccharides in solution was based primarily on proton-proton distance information obtained from n.O.e. data. Here, we discuss the application of three-bond proton-carbon coupling constants. 

Recently, the two-dimensional 13C H heteronuclear correlation (HETCOR) NMR method, using the frequency-switched Lee-Goldberg (FSLG) H decoupling sequence55 at high MAS rates, has been developed, in order to provide intermolecular and spatial distance information. The HETCOR spectrum often has multiple proton cross peaks for each carbon, and these cross peaks can be extremely helpful for assigning the spectrum. Thus, this method can be used to characterize the structure of polymers in solids.55 71... 

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