文摘
Magnetically aligned bicelles are increasingly being used as model membranes in solution- andsolid-state NMR studies of the structure, dynamics, topology, and interaction of membrane-associatedpeptides and proteins. These studies commonly utilize the PISEMA pulse sequence to measure dipolarcoupling and chemical shift, the two key parameters used in subsequent structural analysis. In the presentstudy, we demonstrate that the PISEMA and other rotating-frame pulse sequences are not suitable for themeasurement of long-range heteronuclear dipolar couplings, and that they provide inaccurate values whenmultiple protons are coupled to a 13C nucleus. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a laboratory-frameseparated-local-field experiment is capable of overcoming these difficulties in magnetically aligned bicelles.An extension of this approach to accurately measure 13C-31P and 1H-31P couplings from phospholipids,which are useful to understand the interaction of molecules with the membrane, is also described. In these2D experiments, natural abundance 13C was observed from bicelles containing DMPC and DHPC lipidmolecules. As a first application, these solid-state NMR approaches were utilized to probe the membraneinteraction of an antidepressant molecule, desipramine, and its location in the membrane.