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. 1989 Feb;86(3):817–820. doi: 10.1073/pnas.86.3.817

Identification of resonances from an oncogenic activating locus of human N-RAS-encoded p21 protein using isotope-edited NMR.

S C Burk 1, M Z Papastavros 1, F McCormick 1, A G Redfield 1
PMCID: PMC286568  PMID: 2644645

Abstract

A sample of Escherichia coli-expressed human N-RAS-encoded p21, a 21-kDa protein, was selectively labeled with 15N at each of the 14 glycine amide positions. Two-dimensional proton-observe 15N correlation spectra showed one peak for each glycine residue. Five glycine resonances were identified with residues near the nucleotide binding site and provide useful reporters of several oncogene-activating positions. Three of these resonances were assigned to residues 10, 15, and 115 from the spectrum of a sample that was also labeled with [13C]valine. These resonances showed extra splitting or broadening due to the 13C label, which could be eliminated by 13C decoupling. Two other peaks were unambiguously identified as Gly-12 and Gly-13 using a one-dimensional edited nuclear Overhauser experiment and by spectral comparison with an Asp-12 mutant. These assignments have provided several site-specific probes of critical domains in p21.

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