Perspectives on Solid State NMR in Biology

Section I: Advances in MAS Techniques for Non-Aligned Systems.- Using symmetry to design pulse sequences in solid-state NMR.- Accurate 13C-15N Distance Measurements in Uniformly 13C,15N-Labeled Peptides.- Selectivity of Double-Quantum Filtered Rotational-Resonance Experiments on Larger-than-Two-Spin Systems.- Multiple-quantum spectroscopy of fully labeled polypeptides under MAS: A statistical and experimental analysis.- Section II: Advances in Techniques for Aligned Systems.- 2H, 15N and 31P solid-state NMR spectroscopy of polypeptides reconstituted into oriented phospholipid membranes.- From Topology to High Resolution Membrane Protein Structures.- Toward dipolar recoupling in macroscopically ordered samples of membrane proteins rotating at the magic angle.- Solid state 19F-NMR of biomembranes.- Section III: Important Technologies.- Numerical simulations for experiment design and extraction of structural parameters in biological solid-state NMR spectroscopy.- An ab-initio molecular dynamics modeling of the primary photochemical event in vision.- Refolded G protein-coupled receptors from E. coli inclusion bodies.- Semliki Forest virus vectors: versatile tools for efficient large-scale expression of membrane receptors.- G protein-coupled receptor expression in Halobacterium salinarum.- Magnetic resonance microscopy for studying the development of chicken and mouse embryos.- Section IV: Applications in Membrane Proteins and Peptides.- MAS NMR on a uniformly [13C 15N] labeled LH2 light-harvesting complex from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila 10050 at ultra-high magnetic fields.- Determination of Torsion Angles in Membrane Proteins.- Characterization and assignment of uniformly labeled NT(8–13) at the agonist binding site of the G-protein coupled neurotensin receptor.-Structural insight into the interaction of amyloid-? peptide with biological membranes by solid state NMR..- Photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centres observed by 13C solid-state NMR.