作用中のタンパク質:光活性フラボタンパク質のフェムト秒からミリ秒の構造ダイナミクス

Richard Brust1, Andras Lukacs, Allison Haigney

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University , Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, United States.

まとめ

研究者は,トランジント振動スペクトロスコピーを用いて,光活性フラボタンパク質のBLUFドメインの構造的ダイナミクスを研究した. 彼らは,タンパク質の再編成がマイクロ秒で起き,光活性化機能にとって重要な階層的なリラックス経路を明らかにすることを発見しました.

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