TRANSIENT INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF PROTEIN DYNAMICS

该研究旨在描述各种媒体对 光学触发事件触发包括电子激发， 电子转移、光化学反应和配体释放。的各种 介质包括模型溶剂和蛋白质。具体目标是学习 蛋白质如何响应结构或电荷分布的变化， 或将其分离，或将其分离。的新颖方法 将使用瞬态红外光谱，以便振动 可以评估平衡分布的频率和动力学。 具体来说，将进行电子转移实验 光合细菌反应中心过程及模型 系统中的不连贯和连贯的反应将被探讨。 计划对血红蛋白和肌红蛋白进行配体释放实验， 研究由此产生的蛋白质构象变化。也 将研究“从头”合成蛋白质的结构响应 通过红外方法。正在努力设计新的方法， 利用烧孔技术了解蛋白质的红外光谱。

The research is aimed at characterizing the responses of various media to optically triggered events. The triggering involves electronic excitation, electron transfer, photochemical reaction and ligand release. The various media include model solvents and proteins. The specific goal is to learn how proteins respond to changes in the structure or charge distribution of chromophores imbedded in them or to charge separation. The novel method of transient infrared spectroscopy will be used in order that the vibrational frequencies and dynamics of the equilibrium distribution can be evaluated. Specifically, experiments will be carried out on electron transfer processes in reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria and model systems in which the incoherent and coherent responses will be explored. Ligand release experiments on hemoglobin and myoglobin are planned to investigate the resulting protein conformational change. Also the structural responses of the 'de novo' synthesized proteins will be studied by infrared methods. Efforts are underway to devise new methods of understanding the IR spectra of proteins using hole burning.