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SUBMITTER: Chalopin Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731342 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chalopin Yann Y Piazza Francesco F Mayboroda Svitlana S Weisbuch Claude C Filoche Marcel M
Scientific reports 20190906 1
Enzymes speed up biochemical reactions at the core of life by as much as 15 orders of magnitude. Yet, despite considerable advances, the fine dynamical determinants at the microscopic level of their catalytic proficiency are still elusive. In this work, we use a powerful mathematical approach to show that rate-promoting vibrations in the picosecond range, specifically encoded in the 3D protein structure, are localized vibrations optimally coupled to the chemical reaction coordinates at the activ ...[more]