We demonstrate the simultaneous measurement of several backbone torsion angles <
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13C,
15N-labeled
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-Spectrin SH3 domain using two different 3D
15N-
13C-
13C-
15N dipolar-chemicalshift magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR experiments. The first NCCN experiment utilizes double quantum(DQ) spectroscopy combined with the INADEQUATE type
13C-
13C chemical shift correlation. The decayof the DQ coherences formed between
13C'
i and
13C
i spin pairs is determined by the "correlated" dipolarfield due to
15N
i-
13C
i and
13C'
i-
15N
i+1 dipolar couplings and is particularly sensitive to variations of thetorsion angle in the regime
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> 140
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. However, the ability of this experiment to constrain multiple
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-torsionangles is limited by the resolution of the
13C
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-
13CO correlation spectrum. This problem is partially addressedin the second approach described here, which is an NCOCA NCCN experiment. In this case the resolutionis enhanced by the superior spectral dispersion of the
15N resonances present in the
15N
i+1-
13C
i part ofthe NCOCA chemical shift correlation spectrum. For the case of the 62-residue
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-spectrin SH3 domain,we determined 13
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angle constraints with the INADEQUATE NCCN experiment and 22
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constraintswere measured in the NCOCA NCCN experiment.