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ProfessorJaspervan Thor

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences

Professor of Molecular Biophysics
 
 
 
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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Kim:2016:10.1039/c6cp00476h,
author = {Kim, TW and Yang, C and Kim, Y and Kim, JG and Kim, J and Jung, YO and Jun, S and Lee, SJ and Park, S and Kosheleva, I and Henning, R and van, Thor JJ and Ihee, H},
doi = {10.1039/c6cp00476h},
journal = {Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics},
pages = {8911--8919},
title = {Combined probes of X-ray scattering and optical spectroscopy reveal how global conformational change is temporally and spatially linked to local structural perturbation in photoactive yellow protein},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6cp00476h},
volume = {18},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Real-time probing of structural transitions of a photoactive protein is challenging owing to the lack of a universal time-resolved technique that can probe the changes in both global conformation and light-absorbing chromophores of the protein. In this work, we combine time-resolved X-ray solution scattering (TRXSS) and transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy to investigate how the global conformational changes involved in the photoinduced signal transduction of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) is temporally and spatially related to the local structural change around the light-absorbing chromophore. In particular, we examine the role of internal proton transfer in developing a signaling state of PYP by employing its E46Q mutant (E46Q-PYP), where the internal proton transfer is inhibited by the replacement of a proton donor. The comparison of TRXSS and TA spectroscopy data directly reveals that the global conformational change of the protein, which is probed by TRXSS, is temporally delayed by tens of microseconds from the local structural change of the chromophore, which is probed by TA spectroscopy. The molecular shape of the signaling state reconstructed from the TRXSS curves directly visualizes the three-dimensional conformations of protein intermediates and reveals that the smaller structural change in E46Q-PYP than in wild-type PYP suggested by previous studies is manifested in terms of much smaller protrusion, confirming that the signaling state of E46Q-PYP is only partially developed compared with that of wild-type PYP. This finding provides direct evidence of how the environmental change in the vicinity of the chromophore alters the conformational change of the entire protein matrix.
AU  - Kim,TW
AU  - Yang,C
AU  - Kim,Y
AU  - Kim,JG
AU  - Kim,J
AU  - Jung,YO
AU  - Jun,S
AU  - Lee,SJ
AU  - Park,S
AU  - Kosheleva,I
AU  - Henning,R
AU  - van,Thor JJ
AU  - Ihee,H
DO  - 10.1039/c6cp00476h
EP  - 8919
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1463-9084
SP  - 8911
TI  - Combined probes of X-ray scattering and optical spectroscopy reveal how global conformational change is temporally and spatially linked to local structural perturbation in photoactive yellow protein
T2  - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6cp00476h
VL  - 18
ER  -
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