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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 128, Issue 3, Pages 1002-1008Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja055584p
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Heat capacity changes of short-lived transient species in different time ranges were measured for the first time by using the thermal component of the transient grating and transient lens signals at various temperatures. This method was applied to the transient intermediates of Photoactive Yellow Protein (PYP). The temperature dependence of the enthalpy change shows that the heat capacity of the short-lived intermediate pR(2) (also called I-1 or PYPL) species is the same as that of the ground state (pG) species within our experimental accuracy, whereas that of the long-lived intermediate pB (I-2 or PYPM) is much larger (2.7 +/- 0.4 kJ/mol K) than that of pG. The larger heat capacity is interpreted in terms of the conformational change of the pB species such as melted conformation and/or exposure of the nonpolar residues to the aqueous phase. This technique can be used for photochemical reactions in general to investigate the conformational change and the hydrophobic interaction in a time domain.
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