On the use of time-averaging restraints when deriving biomolecular structure from $$^3J$$ 3 J -coupling values obtained from NMR experiments
Abstract
Deriving molecular structure from \(^3J\) -couplings obtained from NMR experiments is a challenge due to (1) the uncertainty in the Karplus relation \(^3J(\theta )\) connecting a \(^3J\) -coupling value to a torsional angle \(\theta \) , (2) the need to account for the averaging inherent to the measurement of \(^3J\) -couplings, and (3) the sampling road blocks that may emerge due to the multiple-valuedness of the inverse function \(\theta (^3J)\) of the function \(^3J(\theta )\) . Ways to properly handle these issues in structure refinement of biomolecules are discussed and illustrated using the protein hen egg white lysozyme as example.
Source: Journal of Biomolecular NMR