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We describe the recent development in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipped with paramagnetic lanthanide probe. Paramagnetic lanthanide probe provides long-range (~40 Å) distance and angular information that can be exploited in structure determination of large proteins and their complexes, dynamics, ligand screening, and structure-based resonance assignment. Application of the paramagnetic lanthanide probe is not limited to metal-binding proteins but becoming general by the use of lanthanide-binding tags. We here illustrate the practical aspects of the experiments and analyses for the use of paramagnetic lanthanide probe. Applications to protein-protein and protein-ligand structure determination and ligand screening are also shown.
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We would like to thank Dr. Yoshihiro Kobashigawa for providing the data for Fig. 5. A part of this work was supported by the Creation of Innovation Centers for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Areas Program, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
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Saio, T., Inagaki, F. (2016). NMR Structural Biology Using Paramagnetic Lanthanide Probe. In: Senda, T., Maenaka, K. (eds) Advanced Methods in Structural Biology. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56030-2_17
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