Time resolved transient circular dichroism spectroscopy using synchrotron natural polarization

François Auvray, David Dennetiere, Alexandre Giuliani, Frédéric Jamme, Frank Wien, Bastien Nay, Séverine Zirah, François Polack, Claude Menneglier, Bruno Lagarde, Jonathan D. Hirst, Matthieu Réfrégiers

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Abstract

Ultraviolet (UV) synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) spectroscopy has made an important contribution to the determination and understanding of the structure of bio-molecules. In this paper, we report an innovative approach that we term time-resolved SRCD (tr-SRCD), which overcomes the limitations of current broadband UV SRCD setups. This technique allows accessing ultrafast time scales (down to nanoseconds), previously measurable only by other methods, such as infrared (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), fluorescence and absorbance spectroscopies, and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The tr-SRCD setup takes advantage of the natural polarization of the synchrotron radiation emitted by a bending magnet to record broadband UV CD faster than any current SRCD setup, improving the acquisition speed from 10 mHz to 130 Hz and the accessible temporal resolution by several orders of magnitude. We illustrate the new approach by following the isomer concentration changes of an azopeptide after a photoisomerization. This breakthrough in SRCD spectroscopy opens up a wide range of potential applications to the detailed characterization of biological processes, such as protein folding and protein-ligand binding.

Original languageEnglish
Article number054307
JournalStructural Dynamics
Volume6
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2019
Externally publishedYes

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