Twisting of protein molecules in water is successfully captured on molecular movie
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 06:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A research group led by Hyotcherl Ihee at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) observed twisting of protein molecules in an aqueous solution (which is very similar to the environment in vivo at room temperature) as an X-ray molecular movie with a precision of 100 picoseconds (one over one-ten-billionth of a second). They were assisted by Prof. Shin-ichi Adachi at the Institute of Materials Structure Science at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Prof. Shin-ya Koshihara at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a research group from the University of Chicago in the US.