Short-time dynamics of proteins in solutions studied by neutron spin echo |
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Institution: | 2. Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom;3. Macromolecular Structure Group, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Dynamics of proteins in solutions include translational, rotational, and internal motions that are linked to different protein properties. Because most proteins are small with the sizes of just a few nanometers, the timescale for their short-time dynamics usually ranges from a few nanoseconds to a few hundreds of nanoseconds, during which a protein usually does not rotate too much. Protein short-time dynamics has been shown to be useful to study liquid theories, protein cluster formation, gelation transitions of concentrated protein systems, and protein internal motions. Neutron spin echo, which is able to measure protein motions with the right correlation time at the appropriate length scale, is ideally suitable to study the short-time dynamics of proteins in solutions. Here, we review recent activities of using neutron spin echo to study the protein short-time motions. Despite all progresses, there are still both theoretical and experimental challenges to exploit the full capability of neutron spin echo to study protein dynamics. |
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Keywords: | Protein Neutron spin echo Internal motions Short-time dynamics |
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