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Nature Structural Biology  5, 55 - 59 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nsb0198-55

Pervasive conformational fluctuations on microsecond time scales in a fibronectin type III domain

Mikael Akke1, Jun Liu2, John Cavanagh3, Harold P. Erickson4 & Arthur G. Palmer III1

  1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.

  2Pharmacology Research & Development, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.

  3NMR Structural Biology Facility, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201, USA.

  4Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.

 Correspondence should be addressed to A.G.P. e-mail: agp6@columbia.edu

A novel off-resonance rotating-frame 15N NMR spin relaxation experiment is used to characterize conformational fluctuations with correlation times between 32 and 175 mus in the third fibronectin type III domain of human tenascin-C. Conformational fluctuations of contiguous regions of the beta-sandwich structure of the type III domain may represent collective motions, such as transient twisting or breathing of the beta-sheets. Flexibility of the loop containing the Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) tripeptide may affect the accessibility of this motif in protein-protein interactions.

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