TY - Generic T1 - Anisotropic Absorption Measurements Reveal Protein Dynamical Transition in Intramolecular Vibrations T2 - 2016 41st International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves Y1 - 2016 A1 - Xu, M. Y. A1 - Niessen, K. A1 - Michki, N. A1 - Deng, Y. T. A1 - Snell, E. A1 - Markelz, A. G. AB -

Modeling has predicted that intramolecular structural vibrations enables proteins to access functionally important structural change. We show that the vibrational density of states and the isotropic absorption in the terahertz range are only weakly dependent on the protein functional state for several bench marking proteins. At the same time the direction of motions changes dramatically with functional state and with a resulting impact on the anisotropic absorption. Our anisotropic THz microscopy (ATM) measurements confirm this sensitivity. Here we apply the technique to the question of whether the protein dynamical transition (DT) is important to protein function. We find a strong anisotropic resonance at 70 cm(-1) rapidly increases in strength at temperatures above the DT. As these intramolecular vibrations enable protein structure to change conformation, the results suggest function will cease below DT for those proteins that require large scale conformational change.

JF - 2016 41st International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves T3 - International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves PB - Ieee CY - New York SN - 978-1-4673-8485-8 N1 - ISI Document Delivery No.: BG7KC
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Xu, Mengyang Niessen, Katherine Michki, Nigel Deng, Yanting Snell, Edward Markelz, A. G.
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41st International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz)
Sep 25-30, 2016
Copenhagen, DENMARK
DTU, IEEE, QMC Instruments, Danish Ctr Laser Infrastructure, DTU Fotonik, Dept Photon Engn, ARL, Carl Sberg Fdn, AF Off Sci Res, Tech Univ Denmark, IEEE Microwave Theory & Tech Soc, Azpect Photon, Ekspla, Hubner HF Syst Engn, I2S, Laser Quantum, Menlo Syst, Neaspec, Springer, TeraView, Virginia Diodes
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