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Title: Observing heme doming in myoglobin with femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Abstract

We report time-resolved X-ray absorption measurements after photolysis of carbonmonoxy myoglobin performed at the LCLS X-ray free electron laser with nearly 100 fs (FWHM) time resolution. Data at the Fe K-edge reveal that the photoinduced structural changes at the heme occur in two steps, with a faster (~70 fs) relaxation preceding a slower (~400 fs) one. We tentatively attribute the first relaxation to a structural rearrangement induced by photolysis involving essentially only the heme chromophore and the second relaxation to a residual Fe motion out of the heme plane that is coupled to the displacement of myoglobin F-helix.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [1];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Palermo, Palermo (Italy)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  3. CNRS - Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble 38044, France
  4. Univ. of Rennes, Rennes (France)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1190858
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Structural Dynamics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2329-7778
Publisher:
American Crystallographic Association/AIP
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.

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Levantino, M., Lemke, H. T., Schirò, G., Glownia, M., Cupane, A., and Cammarata, M. Observing heme doming in myoglobin with femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4921907.
Levantino, M., Lemke, H. T., Schirò, G., Glownia, M., Cupane, A., & Cammarata, M. Observing heme doming in myoglobin with femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4921907
Levantino, M., Lemke, H. T., Schirò, G., Glownia, M., Cupane, A., and Cammarata, M. Wed . "Observing heme doming in myoglobin with femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4921907. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1190858.
@article{osti_1190858,
title = {Observing heme doming in myoglobin with femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy},
author = {Levantino, M. and Lemke, H. T. and Schirò, G. and Glownia, M. and Cupane, A. and Cammarata, M.},
abstractNote = {We report time-resolved X-ray absorption measurements after photolysis of carbonmonoxy myoglobin performed at the LCLS X-ray free electron laser with nearly 100 fs (FWHM) time resolution. Data at the Fe K-edge reveal that the photoinduced structural changes at the heme occur in two steps, with a faster (~70 fs) relaxation preceding a slower (~400 fs) one. We tentatively attribute the first relaxation to a structural rearrangement induced by photolysis involving essentially only the heme chromophore and the second relaxation to a residual Fe motion out of the heme plane that is coupled to the displacement of myoglobin F-helix.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4921907},
journal = {Structural Dynamics},
number = 4,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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