Determination of precise and accurate protein structures by NMR generally requires weeks or even months to acquire and interpret all the necessary NMR data. However, even medium-accuracy fold information can often provide key clues about protein evolution and biochemical function(s). In this article we describe a largely automatic strategy for rapid determination of medium-accuracy protein back...

1H NMR and static susceptibility measurements have been performed in an organic Mott insulator with a nearly isotropic triangular lattice, kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)(3), which is a model system of frustrated quantum spins. The static susceptibility is described by the spin S=1/2 antiferromagnetic triangular-lattice Heisenberg model with the exchange constant J approximately 250 K. Regardless of t...

A strategy for simplified and complete resonance assignment of insoluble and noncrystalline proteins by solid-state NMR (ssNMR) spectroscopy is presented. Proteins produced with [1-(13)C]- or [2-(13)C]glucose are very sparsely labeled, and the resulting 2D ssNMR spectra exhibit smaller line widths (by a factor of ∼2 relative to uniformly labeled proteins) and contain a reduced number of cross-p...

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a phenomenon wherein the response of a nonlin-ear system to a weak periodic input signal is optimized by the presence of a particular level of noise. Here we present a new method and theory for characterizing SR-type behavior in excitable systems with aperiodic inputs. These novel developments demonstrate that noise can serve to enhance the response of a nonlinear s...

Obtaining unambiguous resonance assignments remains a major bottleneck in solid-state NMR studies of protein structure and dynamics. Particularly for supramolecular assemblies with large subunits (>150 residues), the analysis of crowded spectral data presents a challenge, even if three-dimensional (3D) spectra are used. Here, we present a proton-detected 4D solid-state NMR assignment procedure ...

Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Principles and Applications. Carr J. C., Carroll T. J., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg/New York, 2012. 412 pp. Price $179.00. ISBN 978-1-4419-1685-3 (hardcover).

Octadecylammonium in monolayers transforms into a carbamate derivative, as observed by attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

The conversion between multiple- and single-quantum coherences is integral to many nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments of quadrupolar nuclei. This conversion is relatively inefficient when effected by a single pulse, and many composite pulse schemes have been developed to improve this efficiency. To provide the maximum improvement, such schemes typically require time-consuming experime...

Memoryless time evolutions are ubiquitous in nature but often correspond to a resolution-induced approximation, i.e. there are correlations in time whose effects are undetectable. Recent advances in the dynamical control of small quantum systems provide the ideal scenario to probe some of these effects. Here we experimentally demonstrate the precise induction of memory effects on the evolution ...