Solution structure of Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor using NMR chemical shift restraints

Abstract

The solution structure of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor(BPTI) has been refined by NMR chemical shift data of CαH using classical molecular dynamics simulation. The structure dependent part of the observable chemical shift was modeled by ring current effect, magnetic anisotropy effect from the nearby groups, whereas the structure independent part was replaced with the random coil shift. A new harmonic function derived from the differences between the observed and calculated chemical shifts was added into physical force field as an pseudo potential energy term with force constant of 250 kJmol-1ppm-2. During the 1.5 ns molecular dynamics simulation with chemical shift restraints BPTI has accessed different conformation space compares to crystal and NOE driven structure.