A transverse-dephasing optimized (SE)-E-3 (spin-state selective excitation) method is implemented in solid-state NMR experiments of uniformly labeled protein samples, and it is shown to provide a simultaneous significant gain in both resolution (up to a factor of 2.2) and sensitivity (up to a factor of 1.4). This is illustrated with high-resolution NCO and NCA correlations of a microcrystalline sample of the oxidized form of the 153 residue human Cu(II)Zn(II) superoxide dismutase (SOD), a dimeric paramagnetic enzyme of 32 kDa. This method allows the resolution of 145 signals in the highly crowded carbonyl region in the NCO correlation spectrum.
David Lyndon Emsley, Marinella Mazzanti, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Gabriele Stevanato, Georges Guévork Jean-Jacques Menzildjian
Giovanni Boero, Franck Vincent, Marco Grisi, Nicola Harris, Beatrice Volpe