Figure 1.
Spectra of fully protonated Influenza A M2 recorded at 950 (blue) and 1200 (red) MHz spectrometers using 100 kHz MAS. Panel (A) shows the CP based C-H spectrum, (H)CH, and the slice shows linewidths of G34 α protons. In (B), the aromatic region of the same spectrum is shown. Panel (C) shows the CP-based N-H spectrum and linewidths of selected peaks. The insets show the linewidths of selected peaks that are resolved in the 2D spectrum. The peak indicated with a (*) was used to set the base contour level to a consistent fraction of the peak intensity for each set of overlaid spectra. In (D), the tetrameric structure of M2 is shown, taking the coordinates from protein data bank (PDB) code 2N70, which contains the S31N substitution, but shows a similar ‘dimer-of-dimers’ spectrum as the wild type sequence for which the spectra were recorded.
