posters 5th Asia-Pacific NMR Symposium 2013

Most of the popular biomolecular NMR solvent signal suppression methods are based on the application of selective/soft pulses, which causes significant information loss due to unquantifiable suppression and loss of the contiguous-to-water resonances. The newly developed WaterControl and NOESY-WaterControl methods provide a well-defined quantifiable and extremely selective solvent signal control/suppression with no or minimal loss of features of interest. As shown in Figure 1, a ‘null’ region can be clearly observed on the PGSTE-WATERGATE spectrum (Figure 1 (a)) while there is no ‘null’ region on the WaterControl spectrum  (Figure 1 (b)).

Figure 1 The ¹H 500 MHz PGSTE-WATERGATE (a) and WaterControl (b) spectra of 2 mM lysozyme in 90% H₂O and 10% D₂O.

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