skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Dynamical Transition of Collective Motions in Dry Proteins

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [1];  [1];  [6];  [1]
  1. Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China)
  2. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Shanghai (China)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
  5. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  6. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Water is widely assumed to be essential for protein dynamics and function. In particular, the well-documented “dynamical” transition at ~ 200 K , at which the protein changes from a rigid, nonfunctional form to a flexible, functional state, as detected in hydrogenated protein by incoherent neutron scattering, requires hydration. We report on coherent neutron scattering experiments on perdeuterated proteins and reveal that a transition occurs in dry proteins at the same temperature resulting primarily from the collective heavy-atom motions. Furthermore, the dynamical transition discovered is intrinsic to the energy landscape of dry proteins.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; DMR-1508249
OSTI ID:
1376609
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1372727
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 4; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 23 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (58)

Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of amino acids and proteins. Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation of deuteriomethyl-labeled amino acids in crystals and in Halobacterium halobium and Escherichia coli cell membranes journal January 1984
Is the first hydration shell of lysozyme of higher density than bulk water? journal April 2002
The GROMOS Biomolecular Simulation Program Package journal May 1999
Methyl Group Dynamics and the Onset of Anharmonicity in Myoglobin journal May 2008
de Gennes Narrowing Describes the Relative Motion of Protein Domains journal April 2014
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water journal July 1983
Solvent effects on protein fast dynamics: implications for biopreservation journal January 2013
The Role of Dynamics in Enzyme Activity journal June 2003
Dynamics of Charged Macromolecules in Solution journal May 1974
How Soft Is a Protein? A Protein Dynamics Force Constant Measured by Neutron Scattering journal June 2000
All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins journal April 1998
Thermal motions and function of bacteriorhodopsin in purple membranes: effects of temperature and hydration studied by neutron scattering. journal October 1993
Dynamics and mechanism of ultrafast water–protein interactions journal June 2016
Low-temperature, cooperative conformational transition within [Zn-cytochrome c peroxidase, cytochrome c] complexes: variation with cytochrome journal August 1991
A unified model of protein dynamics journal February 2009
Esterase catalysis of substrate vapour: enzyme activity occurs at very low hydration journal October 2004
Role of Protein-Water Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in the Protein Dynamical Transition journal March 2002
Dynamical transition of myoglobin revealed by inelastic neutron scattering journal February 1989
Coincidence of Dynamical Transitions in a Soluble Protein and Its Hydration Water:  Direct Measurements by Neutron Scattering and MD Simulations journal April 2008
Direct Evidence of the Amino Acid Side Chain and Backbone Contributions to Protein Anharmonicity journal February 2010
Temperature-Dependent Dynamical Transitions of Different Classes of Amino Acid Residue in a Globular Protein journal November 2012
Seeking the solution journal August 2005
Slaving: Solvent fluctuations dominate protein dynamics and functions journal November 2002
A time-of-flight backscattering spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source, BASIS journal August 2011
Determination of functional collective motions in a protein at atomic resolution using coherent neutron scattering journal October 2016
Spatial Dependence of Protein-Water Collective Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics journal November 2013
The Low-Temperature Inflection Observed in Neutron Scattering Measurements of Proteins Is Due to Methyl Rotation: Direct Evidence Using Isotope Labeling and Molecular Dynamics Simulations journal April 2010
Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling journal January 2007
Structure and short-time dynamics of polydisperse charge-stabilized suspensions journal July 1996
Elastic and Conformational Softness of a Globular Protein journal January 2013
Motional Coherence in Fluid Phospholipid Membranes journal December 2008
Using polarization analysis to separate the coherent and incoherent scattering from protein samples journal January 2010
Average protein density is a molecular-weight-dependent function journal October 2004
Surface Hydration Amplifies Single-Well Protein Atom Diffusion Propagating into the Macromolecular Core journal June 2012
Observation of fragile-to-strong dynamic crossover in protein hydration water journal June 2006
The high-flux backscattering spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research journal May 2003
Effect of rotational diffusion on quasielastic light scattering from fractal colloid aggregates journal September 1988
Light scattering study of dynamic and time-averaged correlations in dispersions of charged particles journal May 1975
Polymorphic transitions in single crystals: A new molecular dynamics method journal December 1981
Overview lecture. Hydration processes in biological and macromolecular systems journal January 1996
Influence of Hydration on the Dynamics of Lysozyme journal October 2006
Protein Dynamical Transition Does Not Require Protein Structure journal October 2008
Liquid dynamics and inelastic scattering of neutrons journal January 1959
Translational diffusion of hydration water correlates with functional motions in folded and intrinsically disordered proteins journal March 2015
The Density and Refractive Index of Adsorbing Protein Layers journal July 2004
Cold neutron scattering from liquid CD4 journal October 1966
Crystalline ribonuclease A loses function below the dynamical transition at 220 K journal June 1992
Derivation of Mean-Square Displacements for Protein Dynamics from Elastic Incoherent Neutron Scattering journal April 2012
Methyl Group Dynamics in Glassy Polyisoprene: A Neutron Backscattering Investigation journal July 1994
Thermal Motions in Bacteriorhodopsin at Different Hydration Levels Studied by Neutron Scattering: Correlation with Kinetics and Light-Induced Conformational Changes journal October 1998
Small Energy Transfer Scattering of Cold Neutrons from Liquid Argon journal October 1967
Does a Dry Protein Undergo a Glass Transition? journal March 2014
P450cam Visits an Open Conformation in the Absence of Substrate , journal April 2010
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method journal November 1995
Activity and Dynamics of an Enzyme, Pig Liver Esterase, in Near-Anhydrous Conditions journal October 2010
Principal Components of the Protein Dynamical Transition journal November 2003
Three Entropic Classes of Side Chain in a Globular Protein journal March 2013
Water in enzyme reactions: biophysical aspects of hydration-dehydration processes journal July 2000

Cited By (5)

The effects of pressure on the energy landscape of proteins journal February 2018
Analysis of elastic incoherent neutron scattering data beyond the Gaussian approximation journal December 2018
Role of hydration water in the onset of protein structural dynamics journal August 2019
Evidence of a low-temperature dynamical transition in concentrated microgels journal September 2018
Evidence of a low-temperature dynamical transition in concentrated microgels text January 2018

Similar Records

Determination of functional collective motions in a protein at atomic resolution using coherent neutron scattering
Journal Article · Fri Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Science Advances · OSTI ID:1376609

Protein-style dynamical transition in a non-biological polymer and a non-aqueous solvent
Journal Article · Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces and Biophysical Chemistry · OSTI ID:1376609

Structure and collective dynamics of hydrated anti-freeze protein type III from 180 K to 298 K by X-ray diffraction and inelastic X-ray scattering
Journal Article · Thu Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Chemical Physics · OSTI ID:1376609

Related Subjects