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Abstract
Membrane incorporated synthetic α-helical polypeptides labelled with Dy(III) chelate complexes and nitroxide radicals were studied by the inversion recovery (IR) technique and Dy(III)-nitroxide distances were obtained. A comparison of obtained distances with the previously reported Gd(III)-nitroxide double electron–electron resonance (DEER) calibration data was performed and revealed reliability of the IR-based technique for the distance determination in membrane-incorporated biomacromolecules. The presented distance determination technique is ‘spectroscopically orthogonal’ to DEER-based distance measurements and can be potentially combined with DEER to study multiply spin-labelled biomacromolecules. The key steps of the data processing, the types of obtained distance information and the areas of possible application of the technique are discussed.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the SNF (Grant No. 200021_121579) and by the European Community Activity Large-Scale Facility Wageningen NMR Center (FP6-2004-026164 (2006–2009)).