Porphyrin Triplet State as a Potential Spin Label for Nanometer Distance Measurements by PELDOR Spectroscopy
Journal of the American Chemical Society2014Vol. 136(18), pp. 6582–6585
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Abstract
This work demonstrates, for the first time, the feasibility of applying pulsed electron-electron double resonance (PELDOR/DEER) to determine the interspin distance between a photoexcited porphyrin triplet state (S = 1) and a nitroxide spin label chemically incorporated into a small helical peptide. The PELDOR trace shows deep envelope modulation induced by electron-electron dipole interaction between the partners in the pair, providing an accurate distance measurement. This new labeling approach has a high potential for measuring nanometer distances in more complex biological systems due to the sensitivity acquired from the spin polarization of the photoexcited triplet state spectrum.
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