Recent developments of methyl-labeling strategies in Pichia pastoris for NMR spectroscopy

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a primary structural biology method to characterize protein dynamics in solution. For large macromolecular systems, methyl-labeling in a perdeuterated background significantly improves the relaxation properties, while providing sensitive probes for structure and dynamics analysis. However, how to prepare methyl-labeled proteins, especially for functional eukaryotic proteins, remains to be a major...