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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2012 Jul 19;7(8):1523–1533. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2012.077

TABLE 2.

Sample input file names, description and data format.

File name Description Format of data columns
dest.txt DEST data Residue number, Frequency of resonance in DEST dimension (15N for 15N-DEST) measured from 0 p.p.m. (Hz), Peak intensities as a function of frequency (N data points where N is the number of experiments including reference experiments)
frequencies.txt Saturation offset of DEST saturation pulse Offset from carrier frequency (Hz) for each data point in dest.txt in the same order, including a value of 0 for reference experiments
satfields.txt DEST saturation field intensity as a function of offset Saturation field (Hz) for each data point in dest.txt in the same order, with 0 used to specify reference experiments
R2.txt Transverse relaxation rate in the NMR-visible state Residue number, R2 (s−1)
R1.txt Longitudinal relaxation rate in the NMR-visible state (Note: as these values do not affect the result within the entire range of R1 for biomolecules, estimated values can be used) Residue number, R1 (s−1)
deltaR2.txt Difference in R2 between dark state and reference sample Residue number, ΔR2 (s−1), s.d. (s−1)
DESTconstants.txt Various experimental parameters Fit type (integer from 0 to 7 and - 1, see fit descriptions Table 1)
B0field expressed as 1H Larmor frequency (MHz)
Carrier frequency in DEST experiment (p.p.m.)
DEST experiment sweep-width (Hz)
DEST nucleus (3 for 15N, 2 for 13C, 1 for 1H)
Relative weighting factor for ΔR2 values in fit optimization (e.g., 0.5)
Length of DEST saturation pulse (s)
Make plots (1 for yes, 0 for no)
Save plots to file (1 for yes, 0 for no)
Optimize parameters (1 for yes, 0 for no; i.e., if 0 just simulate with the initial parameter value and generate output)
Optimize dark-state resonance offset chemical shift (CS; 0 for no, same CS as light state, 1 for yes, use a single residue-specific dark-state offset for all dark states, 2 use a separate residue-specific CS for each of two dark state)
Values of R1 of dark states (0 to assume R1 in the dark state is uniform rate of 0.5 s−1, 1 to use position-specific R1 for dark states equal to user provided R1 in the NMR-visible state)
params1.txt Various kinetic and relaxation parameters for McConnell model fitting See Table 3
normalize.txt Scaling factor to manually normalize data points Residue number, number by which to multiply auto-normalized DEST data to achieve desired normalization
folded.txt Correction for aliased resonance positions Residue number, integer number of times resonance position provided in dest.txt column 2 is aliased (positive integer for aliased downfield, negative for aliased upfield; where aliased downfield indicates that actual resonance position is downfield of spectral window)
darkoff.txt Dark state CS, initial guess CS (p.p.m.) for each data point in dest.txt in the same order, if the option to optimize CSs in the dark state is specified in DESTconstants.txt
darkoff2.txt Dark state 2 CS, initial guess CS (p.p.m.) for each data point in dest.txt in the same order, if the option to optimize CSs of two dark states independently is specified in DESTconstants.txt