A Diamond-shaped Zipper-like DNA Architecture Containing Triads
Sandwiched between Mismatches and Tetrads
V.Kuryavyi, A.Kettani, W.Wang, R.Jons, D.J.Patel
Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021 Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway NJ 08855

Conformational Changes Linked to Proton Translocation by
Subunit c of the F1FO ATP Synthase
Vinit K. Rastogi & Mark E. Girvin
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461

Thermal unfolding of a thioredoxin structural motif yields a loose
minimum hydrophobic core
R. Georgescu and M. L. Tasayco
Department of Chemistry City College of New York

Complete Structure Determination of U-13C,15N-Peptides by Solid State NMR
Chad M. Rienstra (1,2,4), Morten Hohwy (2,5), Leonard J. Mueller (2,6),
Lisa Tucker-Kellogg (3), Christopher P. Jaroniec (1,2), Bernd Reif (2,7),
Bruce Tidor (1), and Robert G. Griffin (1,2)
1. Department of Chemistry M.I.T.
2. Center for Magnetic Resonance, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
4. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
5. Laboratory for Biomolecular NMR, Chemistry Department,University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
6. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
7. Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85746 Garching, Germany

Measurement of Interfluorine Distances in Solids
M. Lane Gilchrist Jr., (1) Kenji Monde, (3) York Tomita, (4) Takashi
Iwashita, (5) Koji Nakanishi (2) and Ann E. McDermott (2)
(1) Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, NY, NY 10031
(2) Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, NY, NY 10027
(3) Current address: Institute for Chemical Reaction Sci., Tohoku University 2-1-1 Katahira, Sendai 980-77 JAPAN
(4) Current address: NIH/NIDR 30/223 Bethesda, MD 20892
(5) Current address: Suntory Inst. for Bioorganic Research, 1-1-1Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka 618, Japan

Configuration of the N-terminal catalytic domain of the homing endonuclease I-Tevi Joseph C. Kowalski (1), Janet Anderson (2), John Dansereau (1),
Marlene Belfort (1), Vicky Derbyshire (1) & Susan Baxter (1)
(1) Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health, Empire State Plaza, and
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY
(2) Department of Chemistry, Union College, Schenectady, NY

Solution structure of the yeast transcriptional regulator a1: Differences
from the crystal structure in the a1/alpha2/DNA ternary complex
Janet Anderson (1), Michael Forman (2), Sarah Modleski (2) & Susan Baxter (2)
(1) Department of Chemistry, Union College, Schenectady, NY
(2) Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health, Empire State Plaza, and
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY

A TROSY-CPMG sequence for characterizing chemical
exchange in large macromolecules
Patrick Loria
Deptartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Columbia University

Magnetic Field Dependent 15N Spin Relaxation
Studies of Escherichia coli Ribonuclease H
Chris Kroenke and Art Palmer
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Columbia University

How Does Sequence Specify Structure? Using Protein Design to
Study Protein Folding and Structure
Blake Hill and Bill DeGrado
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of Pennsylvania

Structural Studies of Human Platelet Profilin by NMR,CD and Tryptophan Fluorescence.
Glendon McLachlan and Steve Almo.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

NMR Study of the Interactions of N-Acylated
a-Aminoalkanoic Acids with Heparin
Robert Callender Hua Deng Miriam Gulotta Ruel Desamero Hu Chen
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

NMR study of "LBHB" models for Enzyme Active Sites.
Xiangjin Song, Ann McDermott
Columbia University

Strategies for Resonance Assignments and Protein Structure Determination by
Solid-State NMR
Ann McDermott (1), Tatyana Polenova (2), Anja Bockmann (3), Tatyana
Igumenova (1), Kurt W. Zilm (4), Eric Paulsen (4), Rachel Wagner (4)Gaetano T. Montellione (5)
(1) Columbia University, Department of Chemistry, NY NY 10027
(2) Hunter College, Department of Chemistry, NY NY 10021
(3) Institute de Biologie et Chemie des Proteines, UPR 412-CNRS Laboratoire de Conformation des Proteines, France
(4) Yale University, Department of Chemistry, New Haven CT 06511
(5) Rutgers University, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine,
Piscataway NJ 08854-5638

Biophysical Studies on a Transmembrane Peptide of the Saccharomyces
Cerevisiae alpha-Factor Receptor Using Solid State NMR
Boris Arshava (1), Shu-Hua Wang(1), Kathleen Valentine(2),
Stanley J.Opella (2), Jeffrey M. Becker(3) and Fred Naider(1).
(1) - College of Staten Island, CUNY, NY, NY (2) - University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
(3) - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Solvent Exchange of Hydrogen-Bonded Protons
at Subunit Interfaces in Human Hemoglobin
Mihaela-Rita Mihailescu and Irina M. Russu
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Program
Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 06459

Proton Exchange and Local Stability in a DNA Triple Helix
Steve Powell and Irina M. Russu
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Program
Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 06459

The timescale and thermal activation of a catalytic loop in Triosephoaphate Isomerase
Sharon Rozovsky and Ann E. McDermott
Chemistry Department, Columbia University

NMR Studies of Very Weak Interactions between N-Acylated a-Aminoalkanoic Acids and Heparin
(Looking for Help on What I Can Learn from the NMR Results)
Hua Deng
Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. 10461