Nanosecond-time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study of fast relaxation kinetics of protein folding by means of laser-induced temperature-jump
Zhang Qing-Li (张庆利)a, Wang Li (王莉)ab, Weng Yu-Xiang (翁羽翔)a, Qiu Xiang-Gang (邱祥冈)c, Wang Wei-Chi (王渭池)a, Yan Ji-Xiang (阎吉祥)b
a Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; b Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100080, China; c National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
Abstract Elucidating the initial kinetics of folding pathways is critical to the understanding of the protein folding mechanism. Transient infrared spectroscopy has proved a powerful tool to probe the folding kinetics. Herein we report the construction of a nanosecond laser-induced temperature-jump ($T$-jump) technique coupled to a nanosecond time-resolved transient mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectrometer system capable of investigating the protein folding kinetics with a temporal resolution of 50 ns after deconvolution of the instrumental response function. The mid-IR source is a liquid N$_{2}$ cooled CO laser covering a spectral range of 5.0$\mu$m (2000 cm$^{-1}) \sim $ 6.5$\mu$m (1540 cm$^{-1})$. The heating pulse was generated by a high pressure H$_{2}$ Raman shifter at wavelength of 1.9$\mu$m. The maximum temperature-jump could reach as high as 26$\pm $1$^{\circ}$C. The fast folding/unfolding dynamics of cytochrome $C$ was investigated by the constructed system, providing an example.
Received: 06 July 2005
Revised: 08 September 2005
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Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 20373088) and Program for innovation group (Grant No 60321002).
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Zhang Qing-Li (张庆利), Wang Li (王莉), Weng Yu-Xiang (翁羽翔), Qiu Xiang-Gang (邱祥冈), Wang Wei-Chi (王渭池), Yan Ji-Xiang (阎吉祥) Nanosecond-time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study of fast relaxation kinetics of protein folding by means of laser-induced temperature-jump 2005 Chinese Physics 14 2484
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