Elucidating proline dynamics in spider dragline silk fibre using 2H-13C HETCOR MAS NMR.

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  • Xiangyan Shi
  • Jeffery L Yarger
  • Gregory P Holland
چکیده

(2)H-(13)C HETCOR MAS NMR is performed on (2)H/(13)C/(15)N-Pro enriched A. aurantia dragline silk. Proline dynamics are extracted from (2)H NMR line shapes and T1 in a site-specific manner to elucidate the backbone and side chain molecular dynamics for the MaSp2 GPGXX β-turn regions for spider dragline silk in the dry and wet, supercontracted states.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Chemical communications

دوره 50 37  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014