Lanthanide tags offer the opportunity to retrieve long-range distance information from NMR experiments that can be used to guide protein docking. To determine whether sufficient restraints can be retrieved for proteins with low solubility and availability, Ln tags were applied in the study of the 65 kDa membrane-associated protein complex formed by the electron carrier adrenodoxin and its electron donor, adrenodoxin reductase. The reductase is only monomeric at low concentration, and the paramagnetic iron-sulfur cluster of adrenodoxin broadens many of the resonances of nuclei in the interface.
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