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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1777, Issue 1, Pages 15-31Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2007.10.004
Keywords
heme proteins; femtosecond spectroscopy; molecular dynamics; heme-based sensors; oxidases; cytochrome
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Physiological bond formation and bond breaking events between proteins and ligands and their immediate consequences are difficult to synchronize and study in general. However, diatomic ligands can be photodissociated from heme, and thus in heme proteins ligand release and rebinding dynamics and trajectories have been studied on timescales of the internal vibrations of the protein that drive many biochemical reactions, and longer. The rapidly expanding number of characterized heme proteins involved in a large variety of functions allows comparative dynamics-structure-function studies. In this review, an overview is given of recent progress in this field, and in particular on initial sensing processes in signaling proteins, and on ligand and electron transfer dynamics in oxidases and cytochromes. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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