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Quasi-analytical resolution-correction of elastic neutron scattering from proteins

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Elastic neutron scattering from proteins reflects the motional amplitudes resulting from their internal collective and single-atom dynamics and is observable if the global diffusion of whole molecules is either blocked or cannot be resolved by the spectrometer under consideration. Due to finite instrumental resolution, the measured elastic scattering amplitude always contains contaminations from quasielastic neutron scattering and some model must be assumed to extract the resolution-corrected counterpart from corresponding experimental spectra. Here, we derive a quasi-analytical method for that purpose, assuming that the intermediate scattering function relaxes with a “stretched” Mittag-Leffler function, Eα(−(t/τ)α) (0 < α < 1), toward the elastic amplitude and that the instrumental resolution function has Gaussian form. The corresponding function can be integrated into a fitting procedure and allows for eliminating the elastic intensity as a fit parameter. We illustrate the method for the analysis of two proteins in solution, the intrinsically disordered Myelin Basic Protein, confirming recently published results [Hassani et al., J. Chem. Phys. 156, 025102 (2022)], and the well-folded globular protein myoglobin. We also briefly discuss the consequences of our findings for the extraction of mean square position fluctuations from elastic scans.
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hal-04188415 , version 1 (25-08-2023)

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Abir Hassani, Andreas Stadler, Gerald Kneller. Quasi-analytical resolution-correction of elastic neutron scattering from proteins. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022, 157 (13), ⟨10.1063/5.0103960⟩. ⟨hal-04188415⟩
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