Nitroxide radical induced solvent proton relaxation: Measurement of localized translational diffusion
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 81 (9), 4038-4045
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.448147
Abstract
The field dependence of solventprotonnuclear magnetic relaxation is shown to provide a test of whether the relaxation is dominated by translational or rotational motions. When a paramagnetic center is present with a sufficiently long electron relaxation time, the dominance of translational contributions to the correlation time for the electron–nucleus interaction permits characterization of the translational diffusion of the solvent in local environment of the paramagnetic center. For bovine serum albumin covalently labeled with nitroxide radicals the approach yields a value of (3±1)×10− 6 cm2 s− 1 for water within the first 10 Å of the protein surface. The method is general for the measurement of localized solventdiffusion coefficients.Keywords
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