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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 95, Issue 11, Pages 5247-5256Publisher
BIOPHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.120147
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Apo-calmodulin, a small, mainly a, soluble protein is a calcium-dependent protein activator. This article presents a study of internal dynamics of native and thermal unfolded apo-calmodulin, using quasi-elastic neutron scattering. This technique can probe protein internal dynamics in the picosecond timescale and in the nanometer length-scale. It appears that a dynamical transition is associated with thermal denaturation of apo-calmodulin. This dynamical transition goes together with a decrease of the confinement of hydrogen atoms, a decrease of immobile protons proportion and an increase of dynamical heterogeneity. The comparison of native and unfolded states dynamics suggests that the dynamics of protein atoms is more influenced by their distance to the backbone than by their solvent exposure.
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