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Landing Proteins on Graphene Trampoline Preserves Their Gas-Phase Folding on the Surface

Anggara, Kelvin
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Ochner, Hannah
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Szilagyi, Sven
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2023
Acs Central Science

Molecule-surface collisions are known to initiate dynamics that lead to products inaccessible by thermal chemistry. These collision dynamics, however, have mostly been examined on bulk surfaces, leaving vast opportunities unexplored for molecular collisions on nanostructures, especially on those that exhibit mechanical properties radically different from those of their bulk counterparts. Probing energy-dependent dynamics on nanostructures, particularly for large molecules, has been challenging due to their fast time scales and high structural complexity. Here, by examining the dynamics of a protein impinging on a freestanding, single-atom-thick membrane, we discover molecule-on-trampoline dynamics that disperse the collision impact away from the incident protein within a few picoseconds. As a result, our experiments and ab initio calculations show that cytochrome c retains its gas-phase folded structure when it collides onto freestanding single-layer graphene at low energies (similar to 20 meV/atom). The molecule-on-trampoline dynamics, expected to be operative on many freestanding atomic membranes, enable reliable means to transfer gas-phase macromolecular structures onto freestanding surfaces for their single molecule imaging, complementing many bioanalytical techniques.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acscentsci.2c00815
Web of Science ID

WOS:000898823900001

Author(s)
Anggara, Kelvin
Ochner, Hannah
Szilagyi, Sven
Malavolti, Luigi
Rauschenbach, Stephan
Kern, Klaus  
Date Issued

2023

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Acs Central Science
Volume

9

Issue

2

Start page

151

End page

158

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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controlled deposition

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quantum dynamics

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energy-transfer

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cytochrome-c

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peptide ions

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collisions

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nanoelectrospray

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chemisorption

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electrospray

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dissociation

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REVIEWED

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January 2, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/193537
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