Carbon-13 NMR shielding in the twenty common amino acids: comparisons with experimental results in proteins
Abstract
We have used ab initio quantum chemical techniques to compute the (13)C(alpha) and (13)C(beta) shielding surfaces for the 14 amino acids not previously investigated (R. H. Havlin et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 11951-11958) in their most popular conformations. The spans (Omega = sigma(33) - sigma(11)) of all the tensors reported here are large ( approximately 34 ppm) and there are only very minor differences between helical and sheet residues. This is in contrast to the previous report in which Val, Ile and Thr were reported to have large ( approximately 12 ppm) differences in Omega between helical and sheet geometries. Apparently, only the beta-branched (beta-disubstituted) amino acids have such large CSA span (Omega) differences; however, there are uniformly large differences in the solution-NMR-determined CSA (Deltasigma = sigma(orth) - sigma(par)) between helices and sheets in all amino acids considered. This effect is overwhelmingly due to a change in shielding tensor orientation. With the aid of such shielding tensor orientation information, we computed Deltasigma values for all of the amino acids in calmodulin/M13 and ubiquitin. For ubiquitin, we find only a 2.7 ppm rmsd between theory and experiment for Deltasigma over an approximately 45 ppm range, a 0.96 slope, and an R(2) = 0.94 value when using an average solution NMR structure. We also report C(beta) shielding tensor results for these same amino acids, which reflect the small isotropic chemical shift…
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