Time-resolved observation of protein allosteric communication

Time-resolved observation of protein allosteric communication.

Allostery represents a fundamental mechanism of biological regulation that is mediated via long-range communication between distant protein sites. Although little is known about the underlying dynamical process, recent time-resolved infrared spectroscopy experiments on a photoswitchable PDZ domain (PDZ2S) have indicated that the allosteric transition occurs on multiple timescales. Here, using e...

Time-resolved High Spectral Resolution Observation of 2MASSW J0746425+200032AB

Many brown dwarfs exhibit photometric variability at levels from tenths to tens of percents. The photometric variability is related to magnetic activity or patchy cloud coverage, characteristic of brown dwarfs near the L-T transition. Time-resolved spectral monitoring of brown dwarfs provides diagnostics of cloud distribution and condensate properties. However, current time-resolved spectral st...

Time-Resolved Observation of Thermalization in an Isolated Quantum System.

We use trapped atomic ions forming a hybrid Coulomb crystal and exploit its phonons to study an isolated quantum system composed of a single spin coupled to an engineered bosonic environment. We increase the complexity of the system by adding ions and controlling coherent couplings and, thereby, we observe the emergence of thermalization: Time averages of spin observables approach microcanonica...

Time-resolved observation of electron-phonon relaxation in copper.

First time-resolved EPR observation of Nafion photochemistry.

Time-resolved EPR spectra of UV-irradiated Nafion reveal the formation of spin-polarized excited triplet states and allow the detection of photoinduced triplet-triplet energy transfer processes through hydrogen bonds between water and sulfonic acid groups.