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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 129, Issue 13, Pages 3840-+Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0660958
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Proteins with more than similar to 100 residues usually demonstrate a rapid and significant collapse as the earliest event in their folding dynamics; however, the limit in the time resolution of available experimental methods precluded us from conducting a detailed analysis of the event. To investigate the collapse in a real time, a new rapid flow mixer was developed by using a femtosecond laser ablation technique, which achieved a mixing time of 11 mu s. By using the developed mixer, the collapse dynamics of cytochrome c, initiated by pH jumps after the solution mixing, was investigated. The time domain within 100 mu s, which was previously unobservable, was clearly resolved and demonstrated that the process can be approximated by a single-exponential process. The results support the presence of a single kinetic barrier in the initial collapse of cytochrome c.
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