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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2011 Mar 1;50(13):2411–2423. doi: 10.1021/bi200198x

Table 1.

Rate constants in the kinetic simulations of wildtype and F434Y for the conformer exchange.

Parameter WT (A) F434Y (B)
MD simulation conformer time constants* k I→II (2400 ps)−1 (950 ps) −1
k II→I (900 ps) −1 (2400 ps) −1
MD simulation conformer occupancies conformer I 74.5% 28.8%
conformer II 25.5% 71.1%

conformer time constants k I→II (1200 ps) −1 (1100 ps) −1
k II→I (900 ps) −1 (1875 ps) −1
conformer Occupancies conformer I 57 % 37 %
conformer II 43 % 63 %
S2→S1 time constants Ikvib,IC (1 ps) −1 (0.3 ps) −1
IIkvib,IC (0.5 ps) −1 (0.3 ps) −1
radiative time constants Ikrad (17 ns) −1 (17 ns) −1
IIkrad (17 ns) −1 (17 ns) −1
IC time constants IkIC (20 ns) −1 (1.68 ns) −1
IIkIC (21 ns) −1 (2.15 ns) −1
ISC time constants IkISC (1.5 ns) −1 (1.5 ns) −1
IIk,ISC (3.0 ns) −1 (3.0 ns) −1
triplet quantum yield, φ φI,ISC 87% 41%
S-FMN distances conformer I S-FMN mean distance 3.74 Å 3.80 Å
conformer II S-FMN mean distance 4.54 Å 4.84 Å
*

Estimated conformer equilibration time constants are underestimated by 30% to 90% due to the use of a Langevin thermostat (shaded parameters).