Jia-Ying Guan

Abstract Amide-proton detected magic-angle spinning NMR of deuterated proteins has become a main technique in NMR-based structural biology. In standard deuteration protocols that rely on D2O-based culture media, non-exchangeable amide sites remain deuterated, making these sites unobservable. Here we demonstrate that proteins produced with H2O-based culture medium doped with deuterated cell lysate allow to overcome this "reprotonation bottleneck", while retaining a high level of deuteration (ca.

Chaperonins are ubiquitous protein assemblies present in bacteria, eukaryota, and archaea, facilitating the folding of proteins, preventing protein aggregation, and thus participating in maintaining protein homeostasis in the cell. During their functional cycle, they bind unfolded client proteins inside their double ring structure and promote protein folding by closing the ring chamber in an adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP)–dependent manner.