| Start Date: | 5/29/2014 | Start Time: | 4:30 PM |
| End Date: | 5/29/2014 | End Time: | 6:00 PM |
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Event Description
Joel M. Friedman, Deptartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY Title: Master and Slave: the Dynamic Dance between Solvent and Protein
Abstract: Many proteins can be viewed as complex nano-devices whose functions are controlled by a complex array of molecular motions. Functionally important protein dynamics pose a difficult challenge for study in that they span orders of magnitude with respect to amplitudes and time scales. One approach to organizing and systematically studying protein dynamics is based on the degree to which the different protein motions are slaved to different categories of solvent motion. This approach is the basis for the solvent slaving model of Frauenfelder and coworkers and our protein dynamic state model. In the present work, we describe how sol-gels, trehalose-derived glasses and reverse micelles can be used as matrices to systematically tune these different categories of protein dynamics through modulation of solvent dynamics and confinement volume. Through this approach we can dissect out the factors that control the activation energies and onset of activation for dynamics in hemeproteins such as hemoglobin and myoglobin that control substrate/ligand diffusion within the protein, conformational averaging as well as escape from or entry into the protein from the solvent. By correlating the activation energies of the different categories of protein motion with those associated with the alpha and beta relaxation so the solvent and hydration shell, it becomes possible to expose the intimate dynamic dance between protein and solvent. |
Contact Information:
Name: Prof. Frank Ji
Phone: 215.895.2562
Email: hj56@drexel.edu |
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Location:
Disque Hall, Room 109, 32 South 32nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
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Special Features:
Free Food |
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