Nuclear magnetic relaxation is widely used to probe protein dynamics. For decades, most analyses of relaxation in proteins have relied successfully on the model-free approach, forgoing mechanistic descriptions of motion. Model-free types of correlation functions cannot describe a large carbon-13 relaxation dataset in protein side chains. Here, we use molecular dynamics simulations to design explicit models of motion and solve Fokker-Planck diffusion equations. These models of motion provide better agreement with relaxation data, mechanistic insight, and a direct link to configuration entropy.
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