Nonexponential structural relaxations in proteins

被引:67
作者
Hagen, SJ
Eaton, WA
机构
[1] Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
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10.1063/1.471044
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Conformational changes in proteins have been observed to exhibit a nonexponential time course. In myoglobin the conformational relaxation that follows photodissociation of the heme ligand is a very extended process that stretches from less than 1 picosecond to nearly 1 microsecond. We explain these kinetics with a model in which the initial protein conformational substates are connected to the final substates and to each other via transition states of a single energy. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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