Authors: Allan M Torres Gang Zheng William S Price
Publish Date: 2017/03/07
Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 233-241
Abstract
Highly selective and efficient water signal suppression is indispensable in biomolecular 2D nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy NOESY experiments However the application of conventional water suppression schemes can cause a significant or complete loss of the biomolecular resonances at and around the water chemical shift ω2 In this study a new sequence NOESYWaterControl was developed to address this issue The new sequence was tested on lysozyme and bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor BPTI demonstrating its efficiency in both water suppression and more excitingly preserving waterproximate biomolecular resonances in ω2 The 2D NOESY maps obtained using the new sequence thus provide more information than the maps obtained with conventional water suppression thereby lessening the number of experiments needed to complete resonance assignments of biomolecules The 2D NOESYWaterControl map of BPTI showed strong bound water and exchangeable proton signals in ω1 but these signals were absent in ω2 indicating the possibility of using the new sequence to discriminate bound water and exchangeable proton resonances from nonlabile proton resonances with similar chemical shifts to water
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