Poster presentation award in one of the largest NMR symposiums

In ISMAR–APNMR 2021, one of the largest NMR symposiums in the world, held online on August 22–27, 2021, Mr. Hibiki Terami, a 1st-year master's student in Ishii Laboratory (LST, Tokyo Tech), was awarded "Asia–Pacific NMR Symposium Poster Award".

His presentation tilte was "Side-chain selective deuteration of proteins for solid-state NMR analysis", which was on an improvement in the resolution of solid-state NMR signals. In collaboration with RIKEN (Yokohama, JAPAN), he succeeded in the development of a selective deuteration (2H) technique of side-chain hydrogen atoms by modifying the process of protein expression with E. coli, leading to reduction of unwanted signal broadening in main-chain proton (1H) solid-state NMR spectra. This sample preparation technique allows us to analyze protein structures with larger molecular weight and smaller amount of samples.

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