This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Distance distributions provide valuable structural information that could help to provide insight into the static structure of membrane proteins and conformationally heterogeneous water soluble proteins as well as fluctuations in these structures. Another important aspect of determining distance distributions is the case of more than two spins. For example, in fully-labeled KcsA channels there are four spin-labels, with two possible distances due to symmetry considerations. The two distances and the stoichiometry could be used as additional parameters that could help to determine distance distributions with a high degree of confidence. These distributions could then be used to find the change in distances upon channel gating when only a fraction of the channels is in the open state. T4-Lysozyme served as testing ground for determining methods useful for solving the inverse problem of finding the distributions from the DQC-ESR spectra. High-quality data were obtained on T4-L 65/135 and 61/135 mutants at 17GHz with use of deuterated solvents. The DQC signals with excellent SNR were recorded on a time-scale of 6s and analyzed by the Tikhonov regularization method. The shapes of the distributions in this work are consistent with the distributions found in our previous study of T4-L by trial and error. In the theoretical part of this work, regularization methods were shown to outperform SVD methods. A direct conversion of DQC-ESR signals into distance distributions by the Tikhonov regularization method was facilitated by obtaining the regularization parameter from the L-curve criterion.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
Type
Biotechnology Resource Grants (P41)
Project #
2P41RR016292-06
Application #
7420461
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-BCMB-K (40))
Project Start
2006-09-15
Project End
2007-08-31
Budget Start
2006-09-15
Budget End
2007-08-31
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$23,772
Indirect Cost
Name
Cornell University
Department
Chemistry
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
872612445
City
Ithaca
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
14850
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