title: Long-range reactive dynamics in myoglobin.
abstract: We report the complete vibrational spectrum of the probe nucleus 57Fe at the oxygen-binding site of the protein myoglobin. The Fe-pyrrole nitrogen stretching modes of the heme group, identified here, probe asymmetric interactions with the protein environment. Collective oscillations of the polypeptide, rather than localized heme vibrations, dominate the low frequency region. We conclude that the heme "doming" mode is significantly delocalized, so that distant sites respond to oxygen binding on vibrational time scales. This has ramifications for understanding long-range interactions in biomolecules, such as those that mediate cooperativity in allosteric proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Sage
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Durbin
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sturhahn
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Wharton
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Champion
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hession
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sutter
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Alp
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D006736:Horses; D007503:Iron Isotopes / Q000737:chemistry*; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D007503:Iron Isotopes; D009211:Myoglobin; C018013:carboxymyoglobin