Journal
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS-US
Volume 6, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5110685
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/M000192/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/P00752X/1]
- Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2014-126, RPG-2018-372]
- BBSRC [BB/P00752X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- EPSRC [EP/R020574/1, EP/M000192/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Both nuclear and electronic dynamics contribute to protein function and need multiple and complementary techniques to reveal their ultrafast structural dynamics response. Real-space information obtained from the measurement of electron density dynamics by X-ray crystallography provides aspects of both, while the molecular physics of coherence parameters and frequency-frequency correlation needs spectroscopy methods. Ultrafast pump-probe applications of protein dynamics in crystals provide real-space information through direct X-ray crystallographic structure analysis or through structural optical crystallographic analysis. A discussion of methods of analysis using ultrafast macromolecular X-ray crystallography and ultrafast nonlinear structural optical crystallography is presented. The current and future high repetition rate capabilities provided by X-ray free electron lasers for ultrafast diffraction studies provide opportunities for optical control and optical selection of nuclear coherence which may develop to access higher frequency dynamics through improvements of sensitivity and time resolution to reveal coherence directly. Specific selection of electronic coherence requires optical probes, which can provide real-space structural information through photoselection of oriented samples and specifically in birefringent crystals. Ultrafast structural optical crystallography of photosynthetic energy transfer has been demonstrated, and the theory of two-dimensional structural optical crystallography has shown a method for accessing the structural selection of electronic coherence. (C) 2019 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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