Numbat: An interactive software tool for fitting δχ-tensors to molecular coordinates using pseudocontact shifts

Christophe Schmitz; Mitchell J. Stanton-Cook; Xun Cheng Su; Gottfried Otting; Thomas Huber

doi:10.1007/s10858-008-9249-z

Numbat: An interactive software tool for fitting δχ-tensors to molecular coordinates using pseudocontact shifts

Christophe Schmitz, Mitchell J. Stanton-Cook, Xun Cheng Su, Gottfried Otting, Thomas Huber^*

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Abstract

Pseudocontact shift (PCS) effects induced by a paramagnetic lanthanide bound to a protein have become increasingly popular in NMR spectroscopy as they yield a complementary set of orientational and long-range structural restraints. PCS are a manifestation of the χ-tensor anisotropy, the Δ_χ-tensor, which in turn can be determined from the PCS. Once the Δ_χ-tensor has been determined, PCS become powerful long-range restraints for the study of protein structure and protein-ligand complexes. Here we present the newly developed package Numbat (New User-friendly Method Built for Automatic Δ_χ-Tensor determination). With a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows a high degree of interactivity, Numbat is specifically designed for the computation of the complete set of Δ_χ-tensor parameters (including shape, location and orientation with respect to the protein) from a set of experimentally measured PCS and the protein structure coordinates. Use of the program for Linux and Windows operating systems is illustrated by building a model of the complex between the E. coli DNA polymerase III subunits ε186 and θ using PCS.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	179-189
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Volume	41
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-008-9249-z
Publication status	Published - Jul 2008

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