Macromolecular Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

BIOP 803
SPRING 2001
3 credits
Time and Place: TBA; one 2-3 hr session per week; Schedule # 74790
Course Director: LukasTamm, Jordan Hall Rm 4-75, lkt2e@virginia.edu; Instructor # 0453
Prerequisites:     Advanced calculus; physical chemistry (advanced undergraduate or basic graduate course); MS503; PHY/BIOP506

Texts:

Van de Ven, F.J.M. Multidimensional NMR in Liquids: Basic Principles and Experimental Methods. VCH. New York. 1995.
Cavanagh J. et al. Protein NMR Spectroscopy. Principles and Practice. Academic Press. San Diego. 1996. 

Date                       

    Instructor

   Topic

Week 1 Jan 15
Perozo 
Fundamentals of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Bloch Equations; Chemical Shift; Spin-Spin Coupling
Week 2  Jan 22  
Tamm

Fourier Transforms in Spectroscopy; Symmetry and Selection Rules in Spectroscopy

Week 3  Jan 29 
Bushweller 

Quantum Mechanical Description of NMR Spectroscopy; Density

Matrix; Product Operators Relaxation; Spectral Density; Relaxation Mechanisms

Week 4 Feb 5 
Khorasaniz

Nuclear Overhauser Effect; Chemical Exchange; NMR Instrumentation; Data Acquisition and Processing; Water Suppression

Week 5 Feb 12 
Tamm/Han

Homonuclear 2D NMR; COSY; TOCSY; NOESY; Homonuclear {1H} Assignment Strategies

Week 6 Feb 26
Khorasaniz

Conformational Chemical Shift Indices; Determination

of 2o and 3o Structure from 1H-NMR; NOE Distance Restraints; Structure Calculations

Week 7  Mar 5
Tamm/Arora

Heteronuclear Correlation NMR; HMQC; HSQC 3D Triple-Resonance Experiments; HNCA; HN(CO)CA; HN(CA)CB; HNCO; HN(CA)CO; etc.

Week 8 Mar 19
Bushweller  

Heteronuclear Backbone Assignment Strategies; Heteronuclear Chemical Shift Indices; 13C – 13C Correlation Experiments; Side Chain Assignments; Side Chain Labeling Strategies; Heteronuclear-Edited NMR; 15N-Edited NOESY; Structure Calculations; Heteronuclear Relaxation; Heteronuclear NOEs

Week 9 Mar 26
Woolf 

Molecular Dynamics Calculations; Quality of NMR-Derived Structures

Week 10 Apr 2
Cafiso

Introduction to Solid State NMR Spectroscopy; CSA; Dipolar Interactions; Quadrupolar Interactions; Residual Dipolar Coupling in Solution NMR

Week 11 Apr 9 
Tamm 

Magic Angle Spinning; REDOR Experiments;  NMR of Proteins in Membranes and Bicelles 

Week 12 Apr 16
Perozo
Magnetic Resonance Principles of that are unique to EPR spectroscopy; EPR Spectroscopy of Metal Centers in Proteins; Spin Label EPR Spectroscopy; Heisenberg Spin Exchange; Electron Spin-Spin Coupling
Week 13 Apr 23 
Cafiso 

EPR Spectroscopy of Membrane Lipids and Proteins; ENDOR and ELDOR Spectroscopy