Elastic and Conformational Softness of a Globular Protein

被引:52
作者
Hong, Liang [1 ]
Glass, Dennis C. [1 ,2 ]
Nickels, Jonathan D. [3 ]
Perticaroli, Stefania [3 ]
Yi, Zheng [1 ]
Madhusudan, Tyagi [4 ,5 ]
O'Neill, Hugh [6 ,7 ]
Zhang, Qiu [6 ]
Sokolov, Alexei P. [3 ]
Smith, Jeremy C. [1 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, UT ORNL Ctr Mol Biophys, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[2] Univ Tennessee, Grad Sch Genome Sci & Technol, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
[3] Univ Tennessee, Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Joint Inst Neutron Sci, Dept Chem, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[4] NIST, Ctr Neutron Res, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
[5] Univ Maryland, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[6] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Biol & Soft Matter Div, Oak Ridge, TN 37931 USA
[7] Univ Tennessee, Dept Biochem & Cellular & Mol Biol, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
INELASTIC NEUTRON-SCATTERING; DYNAMICAL TRANSITION; HYDRATION WATER; SIDE-CHAIN; MOTIONS; TEMPERATURE; MYOGLOBIN; LYSOZYME;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028104
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Flexibility, or softness, is crucial for protein function and consists of a conformational component, involving jumps between potential wells, and an elastic component, involving fluctuations within the wells. Combining molecular dynamics simulation with incoherent neutron scattering and light scattering measurements on green fluorescent protein, we reveal a relationship between the intrawell fluctuations and elastic moduli of the protein. This finding leads to a simple means of experimentally separating the conformational from the elastic atomic displacements. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028104
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