NDLI: Probing the collective vibrational dynamics of a protein in liquid water by terahertz absorption spectroscopy

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Author	Xu, Jing Plaxco, Kevin W. Allen, S. James
Abstract	Biological polymers are expected to exhibit functionally relevant, global, and subglobal collective modes in the terahertz (THz) frequency range (i.e., picosecond timescale). In an effort to monitor these collective motions, we have experimentally determined the absorption spectrum of solvated bovine serum albumin (BSA) from 0.3 to 3.72 THz (10–124 cm−1). We successfully extract the terahertz molar absorption of the solvated BSA from the much stronger attenuation of water and observe in the solvated protein a dense, overlapping spectrum of vibrational modes that increases monotonically with increasing frequency. We see no evidence of distinct, strong, spectral features, suggesting that no specific collective vibrations dominate the protein's spectrum of motions, consistent with the predictions of molecular dynamics simulations and normal mode analyses of a range of small proteins. The shape of the observed spectrum resembles the ideal quadratic spectral density expected for a disordered ionic solid, indicating that the terahertz normal mode density of the solvated BSA may be modeled, to first order, as that of a three-dimensional elastic nanoparticle with an aperiodic charge distribution. Nevertheless, there are important detailed departures from that of a disordered inorganic solid or the normal mode densities predicted for several smaller proteins. These departures are presumably the spectral features arising from the unique molecular details of the solvated BSA. The techniques used here and measurements have the potential to experimentally confront theoretical calculations on a frequency scale that is important for macromolecular motions in a biologically relevant water environment.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1110/ps.062073506
Ending Page	1181
Page Count	7
Starting Page	1175
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09618368
e-ISSN	1469896X
Journal	Protein Science : A Publication of the Protein Society
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	15
Language	English
Publisher	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publisher Date	2006-05-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Subject Keyword	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine Molecular Biology Biochemistry

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