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This week we are @rockymtnconf#EPR. Great atmosphere, talks, science and friendship. IES Medals awarded to Professors Hiroshi Hirata and Christiane Timmel, congratulations!
Excited to share our latest preprint on @bioRxiv! We explored bisphosphonate inhibition on mPPase and, with @PliotasGroup, used DEER spectroscopy to study mPPase's conformational dynamics in solution. @GoldmanLab
Read more: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, we have PhD and Postdoc openings focused on pulsed EPR/ESR spectroscopy and cryo-EM of membrane protein complexes. Join us in Berlin, one of the most scientifically and socially vibrant cities! Please DM for more details. Pls RT!
Huge congratulations to Prof. David Cole-Hamilton @univofstandrews on being elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry @RoySocChem. Do watch the periodic table at the end of the video.
Using Dongmei's and Alan's histidine knockout mutants and RIDME distance measurements we could show that of two dominant distances one is diminished in H3A and H9A each. However, H288A only leaves a short distance populations. H67A and H247 show no effect.
🥁 Thus the RIDME/EPR cluedo suggests that the three main sites for copper(II) form a triangle with vertices at copper-ions coordinated to H3, H9 and H288. Especially the last one was a surprise. 🧲
Out now🎉:
Spin–Lattice Relaxation and Spin–Phonon Coupling of ns1 Metal Ions at the Surface
Unusual oxidation state -> unusual electron configuration -> small spin-phonon coupling -> looooooong relaxation times!
The power of surfaces!
J Phys Chem Lett pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Chemicals regulation in the UK is broken. Lead pipes were banned in water supplies in 1970 but it’s still affecting UK residents today.
We are campaigning for a national Chemicals Agency to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past – there’s #NoTimeToWaste