• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein
  • Contributor: Pande, Kanupriya; Hutchison, Christopher D. M.; Groenhof, Gerrit; Aquila, Andy; Robinson, Josef S.; Tenboer, Jason; Basu, Shibom; Boutet, Sébastien; DePonte, Daniel P.; Liang, Mengning; White, Thomas A.; Zatsepin, Nadia A.; Yefanov, Oleksandr; Morozov, Dmitry; Oberthuer, Dominik; Gati, Cornelius; Subramanian, Ganesh; James, Daniel; Zhao, Yun; Koralek, Jake; Brayshaw, Jennifer; Kupitz, Christopher; Conrad, Chelsie; Roy-Chowdhury, Shatabdi; [...]
  • Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
  • Published in: Science, 352 (2016) 6286, Seite 725-729
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.aad5081
  • ISSN: 1095-9203; 0036-8075
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  • Description: Visualizing a response to light Many biological processes depend on detecting and responding to light. The response is often mediated by a structural change in a protein that begins when absorption of a photon causes isomerization of a chromophore bound to the protein. Pande et al. used x-ray pulses emitted by a free electron laser source to conduct time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography in the time range of 100 fs to 3 ms. This allowed for the real-time tracking of the trans-cis isomerization of the chromophore in photoactive yellow protein and the associated structural changes in the protein. Science , this issue p. 725