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Dipolar Couplings for Structure Refinement 309<br />

Fig. 4. Example of the input format for residual dipolar coupling-derived restraints<br />

(7) in X-PLOR (23). Residue 500 OO, X, Y, Z correspond to the origin, x-, y-, and<br />

z-axes of the alignment tensor axis system, respectively. Restraints are made with reference<br />

to the N–HN bond vector for each residue. The value in the second column<br />

from the right is the measured residual dipolar coupling. The far right number (0.2000)<br />

corresponds to the experimental measurement error, however this is not taken into<br />

consideration in the simulated annealing protocol.<br />

Edipolar = kdipolar ( 1DNH,calc – 1DNH,obs) 2 (5)<br />

where kdipolar is a force constant, and 1DNH,calc and 1DNH,obs are calculated and<br />

observed values of the residual dipolar couplings. This force constant is scaled in<br />

tandem with the NOE force constant during the cooling phase of the simulated<br />

annealing protocol. The value for kdipolar is chosen empirically, such that the difference<br />

between the calculated vs experimental values for 1DNH approximates the<br />

measurement error.<br />

3. If the number of measured 1DNH values is limited, as in the case of the LDLR-AB<br />

pair, estimates for Da and R may be refined using a grid search method (8). We<br />

have used this method to optimize the two parameters independently. The procedure<br />

involves calculating series of structure ensembles (20 structures per<br />

ensemble) with varying values for either Da and R. For the 10 lowest total energy<br />

structures for each ensemble, estimates for Da and R were evaluated based on

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