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Pranav Gupta1, Boris Dzikovski1,2, Jack H Freed1
1National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Abstract:
CW saturation experiments are widely used in ESR studies of relaxation processes in proteins and lipids. We develop the theory of saturation in ESR spectra in terms of its close relation with that of 2D-ELDOR. Our treatment of saturation is then based on the microscopic order macroscopic disorder (MOMD) model and can be used to fit the full CW saturation spectrum, rather than fitting just the peak-peak amplitude as a function of microwave field B 1 as is commonly done. This requires fewer experiments to yield effects on T 1, as well as provides a more extensive dynamic structural picture, for example, for scanning experiments on different protein sites. The code is released as a publicly available software package in Python that can be used to fit CW saturation spectra from biological samples of interest.
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