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Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy to study structure and conformational dynamics of model proteins and the transporter BetP from Corynebacterium glutamicum

Fachliche Zuordnung Biophysik
Förderung Förderung von 2010 bis 2015
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 161780196
 
Erstellungsjahr 2015

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Overall, we achieved very good results for the task 1 (establishment of a fluorescence spectroscopic toolkit) and for task 2 (Monitoring conformational exchange in selected model proteins by fluorescence). The fluorescence methods could be published in very good journals and are well cited. We successfully applied them to nine proteins to study their conformational dynamics in the time range between 80 ns and sub-milliseconds. The findings for T4L and the Klenow fragment were surprising. For both proteins we found a more complex conformational dynamics and identified new previously hidden states. So far it was general belief that both systems were well understood (e.g. > 400 crystal structures for T4L), so that we had to perform a lot of control experiments to convince ourselves and the colleagues that the found novel states are no methodological artefacts but functionally relevant enzyme states. The achieved progress was a crucial technological boost for the Seidel group, which put me in the position to submit the project proposal "hybridFRET" for an ERC Advanced Grant 2014 which will be actually funded.

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