PROTEIN DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS: VIBRATIONAL ECHOES

蛋白质动力学和相互作用：振动回声

• 批准号: 6088954
• 负责人: MICHAEL D FAYER
• 金额: $ 22.89万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-04-01 至 2004-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6088954
• 关键词: active sites; binding sites; hemoglobin; infrared spectrometry; lysozyme; method development; molecular dynamics; myoglobin; protein denaturation; protein protein interaction; protein structure; time resolved data; vibration

Research is proposed to study protein dynamics and intraprotein interactions using an entirely new approach, ultrafast infrared vibrational echo experiments, stimulated vibrational echoes, chemically written stimulated vibrational echoes, and two dimensional vibrational echo spectroscopies. The vibrational echo, which operates on picosecond and femtosecond time scales, is the infrared vibrational equivalent of the NMR spin echo, but it directly examines dynamics and interactions among mechanical degrees of freedom rather than spins. The stimulated vibrational echo experiments extend the time scales that can be investigated, permitting the spectrum of structural fluctuation dynamics to be mapped out over a broad range of time scales. The vibrational echo experiments will initially be applied to the study myoglobin-CO (Mb-CO), hemoglobin-CO (Hb-CO), Mb-NO, lysozyme, Amide I bands and model structures. The time dependent vibrational echo studies of the heme proteins will examine protein dynamics that are felt by a ligand bound at the active site and provide information on how structure, temperature, and viscosity influence protein dynamics. The role played by the protein/solvent boundary in protein dynamics will be studied at room temperature, and the nature of glass like protein dynamics at low temperatures will be investigated. Experiments on intact proteins will be compared to experiments on denatured proteins to examine changes in structural dynamics caused by denaturing. Small molecules will be used as Structural Dynamics Labels that will permit examination of structural fluctuations occurring in different regions of a protein. Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy, a 2D method in which frequency and time are varied, will be used to obtain background suppression and peak enhancement in vibrational spectra of proteins that are not resolvable with conventional IR spectroscopy, e. g., Mb-NO. Two time 2D vibrational echo spectroscopy will be developed and applied to the study of the mechanical coupling between different structural units in proteins. The vibrational echo experiments are the first to use IR coherence experiments on biological systems, moving vibrational spectroscopy along the path that has been so fruitful in the study of biological systems and processes with of magnetic resonance.

研究提出了一种全新的方法来研究蛋白质动力学和蛋白质内部相互作用，超快红外振动回波实验，受激振动回波，化学书写受激振动回波和二维振动回波光谱。振动回波在皮秒和飞秒时间尺度上工作，是核磁共振自旋回波的红外振动等效，但它直接检查力学自由度之间的动力学和相互作用，而不是自旋。受激振动回波实验扩展了可以研究的时间尺度，允许在广泛的时间尺度范围内绘制结构波动动力学谱。振动回声实验将首先应用于肌红蛋白- co （Mb-CO）、血红蛋白- co （Hb-CO）、Mb-NO、溶菌酶、酰胺I带和模型结构的研究。血红素蛋白的时间依赖性振动回声研究将检查在活性位点结合的配体所感受到的蛋白质动力学，并提供有关结构、温度和粘度如何影响蛋白质动力学的信息。将在室温下研究蛋白质/溶剂边界在蛋白质动力学中的作用，并在低温下研究类玻璃蛋白质动力学的性质。完整蛋白质的实验将与变性蛋白质的实验进行比较，以检查变性引起的结构动力学变化。小分子将被用作结构动力学标签，这将允许检查在蛋白质的不同区域发生的结构波动。振动回波光谱（vibration Echo Spectroscopy）是一种改变频率和时间的二维方法，将用于获得传统红外光谱无法分辨的蛋白质（如Mb-NO）的振动光谱的背景抑制和峰值增强。二次二维振动回波光谱将被开发并应用于研究蛋白质中不同结构单元之间的力学耦合。振动回声实验首次将红外相干实验应用于生物系统，使振动光谱学沿着磁共振在生物系统和过程研究中取得丰硕成果的道路向前发展。