Correlated dynamics determining x-ray diffuse scattering from a crystalline protein revealed by molecular dynamics simulation.

Phys Rev Lett

Computational Molecular Biophysics, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Published: November 2005

The dynamical origin of the x-ray diffuse scattering by crystals of a protein, Staphylococcal nuclease, is determined using molecular dynamics simulation. A smooth, nearly isotropic scattering shell at originates from equal contributions from correlations in nearest-neighbor water molecule dynamics and from internal protein motions, the latter consisting of -helix pitch and inter--strand fluctuations. Superposed on the shell are intense, three-dimensional scattering features that originate from a very small number of slowly varying (>10 ns) collective motions. The individual three-dimensional features are assigned to specific collective motions in the protein, and some of these explicitly involve potentially functional active-site deformations.

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