Direct observation of fast protein conformational switching
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Direct observation of fast protein conformational switching.
Folded proteins can exist in multiple conformational substates. Each substate reflects a local minimum on the free-energy landscape with a distinct structure. By using ultrafast 2D-IR vibrational echo chemical-exchange spectroscopy, conformational switching between two well defined substates of a myoglobin mutant is observed on the approximately 50-ps time scale. The conformational dynamics are...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803764105