Congrats to Talia, Jennifer and Irina, as well as our international network of collaborators on the acceptance of an exciting new paper in JACS. It describes the power of dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) to enable multidimensional solid-state NMR studies of polyglutamine-expanded huntingtin exon 1 fibrils. Importantly in these experiments we did not apply stable-isotope labeling to these protein deposits that are implicated in Huntington’s disease. This approach enables great structural data and can hopefully prove applicable to many more (types of) samples.
More info to follow, but for now: Read the accepted paper here at the journal.
Title: Structural fingerprinting of protein aggregates by DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR at natural isotopic abundance
Authors: Adam N. Smith, Katharina Märker, Talia Piretra, Jennifer C. Boatz, Irina Matlahov, Ravindra B. Kodali, Sabine Hediger, Patrick C.A. van der Wel, and Gaël De Paëpe
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09002