@article {199, title = {Protein and RNA dynamical fingerprinting}, journal = {Nature communications}, volume = {10}, number = {1}, year = {2019}, pages = {1-10}, isbn = {2041-1723}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08926-3}, author = {Niessen, Katherine A and Xu, Mengyang and George, Deepu K and Chen, Michael C and Ferr{\'e}-D{\textquoteright}Amar{\'e}, Adrian R and Snell, Edward H and Cody, Vivian and Pace, James and Schmidt, Marius and Markelz, Andrea G} } @conference {546, title = {Direct Measurements of the Long-Range Collective Vibrations of Photoactive Yellow Protein}, booktitle = {30th Anniversary Symposium of The Protein Society}, year = {2016}, address = {Baltimore MD}, abstract = {

Long-range collective vibrations are thought to be crucial to protein functions. In the case of photoactive protein family, modeling suggests the intramolecular vibrations provide an efficient means of energy relaxation[1], feedback for enhancement of chromophore vibrations that promote structural transitions[2] and can assist in charge energy transfer[3]. As a paradigm of this family, photoactive yellow protein (PYP) is a cytoplasmic photocycling protein related to negative phototactic response to blue light in purple photosynthetic bacteria. PYP has a p-coumaric acid chromophore binding to the cysteine residue via a thioester bond, whose vibrations were found to overlap calculated vibrations of the protein scaffold. Using our unique technique of anisotropic terahertz microscopy(ATM)[4], we measure the intramolecular vibrations for PYP for the first time, including cycling between ground and blue shift (pB) states. Room temperature ATM measurements are performed in the dark and with continuous wave illumination at 488nm, resulting in a steady pB state with approximately 5\% population conversion. In pB state, we find an overall decrease in the strength of resonant band in frequency range of 30-60 cm-1. Our calculated spectra using quasi-harmonic analysis indicate that our measurements are dominated by the protein vibrations, rather than the pCA chromophore, allowing us to characterize how the scaffold dynamics changes with functional states and mutations.

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3. Fokas, A.S., et al. Photosynth. Res., 2014. 122

}, doi = {10.1002/pro.3026}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.3026}, author = {Deng, Yanting and Xu, Mengyang and Niessen, Katherine A. and Schmidt, Marius and Markelz, Andrea G.} }