PMID- 21947913 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120416 LR - 20211020 IS - 1573-5001 (Electronic) IS - 0925-2738 (Print) IS - 0925-2738 (Linking) VI - 51 IP - 1-2 DP - 2011 Sep TI - Mathematical treatment of adiabatic fast passage pulses for the computation of nuclear spin relaxation rates in proteins with conformational exchange. PG - 35-47 LID - 10.1007/s10858-011-9539-8 [doi] AB - Although originally designed for broadband inversion and decoupling in NMR spectroscopy, recent methodological developments have introduced adiabatic fast passage (AFP) pulses into the field of protein dynamics. AFP pulses employ a frequency sweep, and have not only superior inversion properties with respect to offset effects, but they are also easily implemented into a pulse sequence. As magnetization is dragged from the +z to the -z direction, Larmor precession is impeded since magnetization becomes spin-locked, which is a potentially useful feature for the investigation of microsecond to millisecond dynamics. A major drawback of these pulses as theoretical prediction is concerned, however, results from their time-dependent offset: simulations of spin density matrices under the influence of a time-dependent Hamiltonian with non-commuting elements are costly in terms of computational time, rendering data analysis impracticable. In this paper we suggest several ways to reduce the computational time without compromising accuracy with respect to effects such as cross-correlated relaxation and modulation of the chemical shift. FAU - Auer, Renate AU - Auer R AD - Department of Structural and Computational Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Campus Vienna Biocenter 5, 1030 Vienna, Austria. FAU - Tollinger, Martin AU - Tollinger M FAU - Kuprov, Ilya AU - Kuprov I FAU - Konrat, Robert AU - Konrat R FAU - Kloiber, Karin AU - Kloiber K LA - eng GR - V 173/FWF_/Austrian Science Fund FWF/Austria PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110927 PL - Netherlands TA - J Biomol NMR JT - Journal of biomolecular NMR JID - 9110829 RN - 0 (Proteins) SB - IM MH - *Algorithms MH - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular/*methods MH - Protein Conformation MH - Proteins/*chemistry PMC - PMC3180638 EDAT- 2011/09/29 06:00 MHDA- 2012/04/17 06:00 PMCR- 2011/09/27 CRDT- 2011/09/28 06:00 PHST- 2011/05/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/07/13 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/09/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/09/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/04/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2011/09/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 9539 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s10858-011-9539-8 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Biomol NMR. 2011 Sep;51(1-2):35-47. doi: 10.1007/s10858-011-9539-8. Epub 2011 Sep 27.