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SCIENCE
Volume 302, Issue 5643, Pages 262-266Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086911
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01GM61577-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Electron transfer is used as a probe for angstrom-scale structural changes in single protein molecules. In a flavin reductase, the fluorescence of flavin is quenched by a nearby tyrosine residue by means of photo-induced electron transfer. By probing the fluorescence lifetime of the single flavin on a photon-by-photon basis, we were able to observe the variation of flavin-tyrosine distance over time. We could then determine the potential of mean force between the flavin and the tyrosine, and a correlation analysis revealed conformational fluctuation at multiple time scales spanning from hundreds of microseconds to seconds. This phenomenon suggests the existence of multiple interconverting conformers related to the fluctuating catalytic reactivity.
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