Rubtsov Igor V, Wang Jianping, Hochstrasser Robin M
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 May 13;100(10):5601-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0931292100. Epub 2003 Apr 22.
The structure fluctuations of the peptide bond interacting with solvent are examined through the coupling and correlations of the frequency distributions of amide I and amide II transitions. The fluctuations of the two modes are anticorrelated as a result of the solvent-induced changes in the mixing of the dominant valence-bond structures of the peptide. Significant anharmonic coupling of the two modes is seen. The results are the application of a new approach to two-dimensional infrared (2D-IR) spectroscopy in which the pulse sequences used to produce the vibrational echoes incorporate two frequencies. This dual-frequency arrangement greatly extends the capabilities of 2D-IR spectroscopy by allowing the coupling between widely separated modes to be characterized in analogy with heteronuclear NMR. The experiment exposes the cross peaks, representing the mode coupling, free of the interference of the strong diagonal peaks that typically dominate 2D-IR spectroscopy. The alignment and dephasing of coupled transitions, in this example the amide I and amide II transition dipoles, is also determined by these experiments.
通过酰胺I和酰胺II跃迁频率分布的耦合与相关性,研究了与溶剂相互作用的肽键的结构波动。由于溶剂引起的肽的主要价键结构混合变化,这两种模式的波动呈反相关。可以看到这两种模式存在显著的非谐耦合。这些结果是一种二维红外(2D-IR)光谱新方法的应用,其中用于产生振动回波的脉冲序列包含两个频率。这种双频配置通过允许以类似于异核NMR的方式表征广泛分离模式之间的耦合,极大地扩展了二维红外光谱的能力。该实验揭示了代表模式耦合的交叉峰,而没有通常主导二维红外光谱的强对角峰的干扰。在此示例中,耦合跃迁(即酰胺I和酰胺II跃迁偶极矩)的排列和去相也由这些实验确定。