Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

Published in

Springer (part of Springer Nature), Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, 0(74), p. s1277-s1279

DOI: 10.1007/s003390201695

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Influence of hydration and cation binding on parvalbumin dynamics

Journal article published in 2002 by Jm-M. Zanotti ORCID, J. Parello, Mc-C. Bellissent Funel ORCID
This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

Due to structural characteristics, parvalbumin exerts a major role in intracellular Mg2+ and Ca2+ concentration regulation during the muscular contraction-relieving cycle. This structure-function relationship being established, we are investigating the structure-dynamics-function relationship to take into account the protein dynamics. Because of the strong incoherent neutron scattering cross section of hydrogen and of the abundance of this element in proteins, incoherent inelastic neutron scattering is a unique probe to study vibrations and localised motions in biological macromolecules. We take advantage of the complementarities in energy or time resolution of various neutron spectrometers (time of flight, backscattering, spin-echo) to probe the parvalbumin dynamics from a fraction of a picosecond to a few nanoseconds. Influences of hydration and of the nature of the cation on parvalbumin dynamics are discussed.