The complete assignment of the resonances of a protein is key to the determination of its solution structure by NMR spectroscopy and for the study of protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. The proton-based assignment strategy usually starts with the correlation of individual resonances of each amino acid residue through scalar connectivities followed by linking them one after the other. [1,2] Although many different triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy experiments have been designed for full assignments, [2] spectral overlap can still lead to ambiguities. This poses a significant limiting factor in the cases of large and/or paramagnetic biomolecules. [3] After the pioneering report of 13 C NMR spin-system assignments of 13 C-enriched Anabaena 7120 ferredoxin by Markley and co-workers, [4] heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy experiments were progressively abandoned in favor of 1 Hdetection experiments. However, as was recently pointed out, heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy decreases the effect of detrimental transverse relaxation, which is typical of large or paramagnetic proteins. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] For this reason, several heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy experiments for backbone assignment have been proposed for fully 13 C-and 15 N-enriched proteins. [13,14,17] Furthermore, backbone sequence-specific assignment by the recently-designed CANCO experiment has also been reported. [18] We present herein an extension of the set of exclusively heteronuclear experiments to protein side chain resonances for the complete heteronuclear assignment of a protein. With a novel CBCACO experiment the carbonyl carbon (CO) is linked to the C b and to the C a nuclei; the connection to the rest of the amino acid side chain is achieved through a 13 C-13 C TOCSY experiment with C a detection. In these experiments, we have successfully implemented spin-state selection methods for the removal of signal splitting in the acquisition dimension which is caused by multiple 13 C-13 C scalar couplings. This makes 13 C detection an amenable tool for high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. The proposed assignment strategy is summarized in Figure 1. A Figure 1. Illustration of the assignment procedure for 13 C NMR spectroscopy experiments. The assignment starts with analysis of the CACO experiment, which provides the correlation between the carbonyl carbon (CO) and the C a nuclei of each amino acid. The spin-system assignment is extended to the C b nuclei with the CBCACO experiment, and the process is completed with the TOCSY experiment, which provides correlation between the C a and the other carbon nuclei of the amino acid side chain. The amino acid spin systems are finally assigned in a sequence-specific manner with the aid of a CANCO experiment, [18] which provides the correlation of each CO to the two neighboring C a nuclei.