Abstract
A time-resolved circular dichroism (CD) experiment is carried out on carbonmonoxy-myoglobin. The CD is measured with a sub-picosecond time resolution after ligand dissociation and the data are interpreted thanks to a classical CD calculation based on the polarizability theory. We observe a decrease of the CD signal in a few picoseconds and a sub-100 ps relaxation towards steady-state deoxy-myoglobin values which we assign to a stress of the proximal histidine which relaxes with the global reorganization of the protein from its liganded geometry to its deliganded one.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 313-316 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
| Volume | 415 |
| Issue number | 4-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Nov 2005 |