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Area of Science:

  • Biophysics
  • Computational Biology
  • Protein Dynamics

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  • Observing real-time biomolecular energy transport requires advanced experimental techniques.
  • Unnatural amino acids like β-(1-azulenyl)alanine (Azu) and azidohomoalanine (Aha) enable site-specific energy injection and probing in proteins.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a computational protocol for simulating vibrational energy flow in proteins.
  • To aid the interpretation of experimental data on real-time biomolecular energy transport.

Main Methods:

  • Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations were performed on TrpZip2 and PDZ3 protein domains.
  • An efficient simulation protocol was established to mimic the experimental excitation and probing steps using Azu and Aha.

Main Results:

  • Simulations accurately reproduced experimentally observed protein cooling times at room temperature.
  • Protein cooling significantly slows below the glass temperature of water.
  • Vibrational energy transfer pathways in PDZ3 were elucidated, involving inter-residue contacts and backbone transport.

Conclusions:

  • The established simulation protocol effectively models biomolecular energy transport.
  • Energy flow pathways in proteins may be linked to allosteric communication mechanisms.
  • Understanding these pathways is crucial for interpreting experiments on protein dynamics.