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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05586-0
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-20-1-0391]
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems [CE110001013]
- NIH [P41-GM103311]
- ARC [DP180101421]
The structural dynamics of macromolecules play a vital role in microbiological processes. Optical sensors have recently been used to measure the dynamic polarizability of single-molecules. This study presents a method to predict the dynamic polarizability from the atomic configuration of macromolecules, allowing the connection between measured polarizability and molecular structure.
The structural dynamics of macromolecules is important for most microbiological processes, from protein folding to the origins of neurodegenerative disorders. Noninvasive measurements of these dynamics are highly challenging. Recently, optical sensors have been shown to allow noninvasive time-resolved measurements of the dynamic polarizability of single-molecules. Here we introduce a method to efficiently predict the dynamic polarizability from the atomic configuration of a given macromolecule. This provides a means to connect the measured dynamic polarizability to the underlying structure of the molecule, and therefore to connect temporal measurements to structural dynamics. To illustrate the methodology we calculate the change in polarizability as a function of time based on conformations extracted from molecular dynamics simulations and using different conformations of motor proteins solved crystalographically. This allows us to quantify the magnitude of the changes in polarizablity due to thermal and functional motions.
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