Focus Session: Physics of Proteins I: Dynamics and Function

Presentations

• Two tyrosyl radicals stabilize high oxidation states in cytochrome c oxidase for efficient energy conservation and proton translocation

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 8:00 AM – March 1, 2012, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Denis Rousseau

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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• Structural and electronic properties of copper-containing nitrite reductase (CuNiR): elucidating the mechanism of nitrite reduction at the T$_2$Cu center

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 8:36 AM – March 1, 2012, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Yan Li

    • North Carolina State University

  • Miroslav Hodak

    • CHiPS/NCSU
    • North Carolina State University

  • J. Bernholc

    • CHiPS/NCSU
    • North Carolina State University
    • NC State University, Raleigh and ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

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• Nanometer Scale Distance Measurements for Biological Systems using Gd$^{3+}$-based Spin Probes at High Magnetic Fields

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 8:48 AM – March 1, 2012, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Devin Edwards

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Daniella Goldfarb

    • Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

  • Songi Han

    • Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Mark Sherwin

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Metal-like transport in proteins: A new paradigm for biological electron transfer

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 9:00 AM – March 1, 2012, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Nikhil Malvankar

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Madeline Vargas

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Mark Tuominen

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • UMass Amherst, MA 01003
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Physics

  • Derek Lovley

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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• Behind the Scene Role of Conserved Threonine in Intein Splicing

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 9:12 AM – March 1, 2012, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Albert Dearden

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Brian Callahan

    • University at Albany

  • Marlene Belfort

    • University at Albany

  • Saroj Nayak

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations, Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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• Coherent Oscillations in Hemoglobin and Myoglobin Ligand Complexes and their Dynamical Connection to Global Protein Motion and Gas Discrimination

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 9:24 AM – March 1, 2012, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Jacob Jantzi

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Kristina Woods

    • Carnegie Mellon University

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• Vibrational Dynamics of Ferric MbCN-A Revisit by Resonance Raman and Vibrational Coherence Spectroscopy

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 9:36 AM – March 1, 2012, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Weiqiao Zeng

    • Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115

  • Yuhan Sun

    • Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115

  • Abdelkrim Benabbas

    • Northeastern University
    • Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115

  • Paul M. Champion

    • Northeastern University
    • Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115

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• Effect of DNA binding on geminate CO recombination kinetics in CooA

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 9:48 AM – March 1, 2012, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Abdelkrim Benabbas

    • Northeastern University
    • Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115

  • Karunakaran Venugopal

    • Northeastern University
    • Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115

  • Hwan Youn

    • California State University

  • Thomas Poulos

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Paul M. Champion

    • Northeastern University
    • Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115

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• Physical control of carrier-mediated ion-transporters by entrainment of their turnover rate

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 10:00 AM – March 1, 2012, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Wei Chen

    • University of South Florida

  • Clausell Mathis

    • University of South Florida

  • Zhihui Fang

    • University of South Florida

  • Jason Mast

    • University of South Florida

  • Karim Hamidi

    • University of South Florida

  • Patrick Kelly

    • University of South Florida

  • Max Eve

    • Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

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• Molecular dynamics simulation studies of dielectric response and vibrational energy relaxation in photoactive yellow protein and green fluorescent protein

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 10:12 AM – March 1, 2012, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Yao Xu

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Ramachandran Gnanasekaran

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • David Leitner

    • University of Nevada, Reno

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• Employing Solution X-Ray Scattering to Investigate Conformational Changes of Proteins

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 10:24 AM – March 1, 2012, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Mustafa Tekpinar

    • Department of Physics, University at Buffalo

  • Wenjun Zheng

    • Department of Physics, University at Buffalo

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• Near-Field Orientation Sensitive Terahertz Micro-Spectroscopy of Single Crystals

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 10:36 AM – March 1, 2012, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • G. Acbas

    • Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
    • Physics Dept., University at Buffalo, SUNY

  • Rohit Singh

    • Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY

  • Edward Snell

    • Department of Structural Biology, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, NY

  • Andrea Markelz

    • Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
    • University at Buffalo(SUNY) Department of Physics
    • Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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