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J Chem Phys ; 155(9): 094201, 2021 Sep 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34496582

RESUMO

We present a rapid-scanning approach to fluorescence-detected two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy that combines acousto-optic phase-modulation with digital lock-in detection. This approach shifts the signal detection window to suppress 1/f laser noise and enables interferometric tracking of the time delays to allow for correction of spectral phase distortions and accurate phasing of the data. This use of digital lock-in detection enables acquisition of linear and nonlinear signals of interest in a single measurement. We demonstrate the method on a laser dye, measuring the linear fluorescence excitation spectrum as well as rephasing, non-rephasing, and absorptive fluorescence-detected two-dimensional electronic spectra.

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J Am Chem Soc ; 141(1): 262-271, 2019 01 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30532962

RESUMO

The engineering of microbial rhodopsins with enhanced fluorescence is of great importance in the expanding field of optogenetics. Here we report the discovery of two mutants (W76S/Y179F and L83Q) of a sensory rhodopsin from the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC7120 with opposite fluorescence behavior. In fact, while W76S/Y179F displays, with respect to the wild-type protein, a nearly 10-fold increase in red-light emission, the second is not emissive. Thus, the W76S/Y179F, L83Q pair offers an unprecedented opportunity for the investigation of fluorescence enhancement in microbial rhodopsins, which is pursued by combining transient absorption spectroscopy and multiconfigurational quantum chemistry. The results of such an investigation point to an isomerization-blocking electronic effect as the direct cause of instantaneous (subpicosecond) fluorescence enhancement.


Assuntos
Anabaena/metabolismo , Proteínas Mutantes/química , Proteínas Mutantes/metabolismo , Engenharia de Proteínas , Rodopsinas Microbianas/química , Rodopsinas Microbianas/metabolismo , Transporte de Elétrons , Modelos Moleculares , Proteínas Mutantes/genética , Conformação Proteica , Rodopsinas Microbianas/genética , Espectrometria de Fluorescência
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Phys Chem Chem Phys ; 20(11): 7885-7895, 2018 Mar 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29509200

RESUMO

The excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) of 3-hydroxyflavone derivatives results in a fluorescence spectrum composed of two emission bands, the relative intensity of which is strongly influenced by the interaction with the local environment. We use time-resolved fluorescence and ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopies to investigate the photophysics of 4'-methoxy-3-hydroxyflavone in different solvents characterized by various polarities and hydrogen (H) bonding capabilities. We evidence that in this compound, the ESIPT reaction rate varies by more than 3 orders of magnitude, depending on the H-bonding capability of its local environment. This remarkable property is attributed to the moderate electron-donating strength of the 4'-methoxy substituent, and turns this fluorescent dye into a very promising fluorescent probe of biomolecular structures and interactions, where local structural heterogeneity may possibly be revealed by resolving a distribution of ESIPT reaction rates.

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Nat Commun ; 9(1): 313, 2018 01 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29358689

RESUMO

The light-induced double-bond isomerization of the visual pigment rhodopsin operates a molecular-level optomechanical energy transduction, which triggers a crucial protein structure change. In fact, rhodopsin isomerization occurs according to a unique, ultrafast mechanism that preserves mode-specific vibrational coherence all the way from the reactant excited state to the primary photoproduct ground state. The engineering of such an energy-funnelling function in synthetic compounds would pave the way towards biomimetic molecular machines capable of achieving optimum light-to-mechanical energy conversion. Here we use resonance and off-resonance vibrational coherence spectroscopy to demonstrate that a rhodopsin-like isomerization operates in a biomimetic molecular switch in solution. Furthermore, by using quantum chemical simulations, we show why the observed coherent nuclear motion critically depends on minor chemical modifications capable to induce specific geometric and electronic effects. This finding provides a strategy for engineering vibrationally coherent motions in other synthetic systems.


Assuntos
Materiais Biomiméticos/química , Indanos/química , Dispositivos Ópticos , Pirróis/química , Retinaldeído/química , Rodopsina/química , Alquilação , Animais , Materiais Biomiméticos/síntese química , Engenharia Química , Humanos , Indanos/síntese química , Luz , Processos Fotoquímicos , Pirróis/síntese química , Teoria Quântica , Análise Espectral/instrumentação , Análise Espectral/métodos , Vibração , Visão Ocular/fisiologia
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J Chem Theory Comput ; 13(12): 6391-6404, 2017 Dec 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29112449

RESUMO

A novel atomistic methodology to perform free energy geometry optimization of a retinal chromophore covalently bound to any rhodopsin-like protein cavity is presented and benchmarked by computing the absorption maxima wavelengths (λmax) of distant rhodopsin systems. The optimization is achieved by computing the Nagaoka's Free Energy Gradient (FEG) within an Average Solvent Electrostatic Configuration (ASEC) atomistic representation of the thermodynamic equilibrium and minimizing such quantity via an iterative procedure based on sequential classical MD and constrained QM/MM geometry optimization steps. The performance of such an ASEC-FEG protocol is assessed at the CASPT2//CASSCF/Amber level by reproducing the λmax values observed for 12 mutants of redesigned human cellular retinol binding protein II (hCRBPII) systems; a set of 10 distant wild-type rhodopsins from vertebrates, invertebrates, eubacteria, and archaea organisms; and finally a set of 10 rhodopsin mutants from an eubacterial rhodopsin. The results clearly show that the proposed protocol, which can be easily extended to any protein incorporating a covalently bound ligand, yields correct λmax trends with limited absolute errors.


Assuntos
Modelos Moleculares , Teoria Quântica , Rodopsina/química , Animais , Humanos , Ligação de Hidrogênio , Lignanas , Mutagênese , Proteínas Celulares de Ligação ao Retinol/química , Proteínas Celulares de Ligação ao Retinol/genética , Proteínas Celulares de Ligação ao Retinol/metabolismo , Rodopsina/genética , Rodopsina/metabolismo , Eletricidade Estática , Termodinâmica
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