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. 2023 Sep 18;15(11):1549–1558. doi: 10.1038/s41557-023-01329-4

Fig. 6. Schema of time-resolved conformational changes in lysozyme following T-jump.

Fig. 6

The cartoon highlights closure of the active site cleft upon chitobiose (CHI) binding, with subsequent representations of time-resolved structural changes following T-jump. At short pump–probe time delays (20 ns) atomic vibrations (shown as red dots) are present in both the apo and inhibitor-bound structures. These vibrations persist in the inhibitor-bound structure but dissipate into more complex motions in the apo structure, including the bending of a helix that lies at the hinge point of the lysozyme molecule.