{"id":5,"date":"2024-04-04T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T05:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/research-0\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:17:34","slug":"research-0","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/research-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><strong>Examples of Our Work<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"direction1\">1) Determination of light-induced active state protein structures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/567\/Picture2-4.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3597122302158273;width:498px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Solution structures of the orange carotenoid protein (OCP) determined by small angle scattering under in-situ illumination depicted on the left side, illumination setup shown on the right side.<br><br>(Golub et al., <em>J. Phys. Chem. B<\/em>, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jpcb.9b05073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jpcb.9b05073<\/a>; Golub et al., <em>Photosynth. Res.<\/em>, 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11120-026-01204-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11120-026-01204-6<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"direction2\">2) Determination of solution structures of membrane proteins solubilized in detergent shell<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"817\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/567\/Picture3-1.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5591551597352724;width:478px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/567\/Picture4.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5493443754313319;width:476px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Solution structure of the PSII complex reconstructed from SANS data using the DAMMIN routine (gray spheres) compared with the PSII crystal structure (PDB ID: 5kaf(16)) shown in cyan and violet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">(Golub et al., <em>J. Phys. Chem. B<\/em>, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jpcb.9b05073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jpcb.9b05073<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"direction3\">3) Time-resolved neutron scattering experiments show proteins at work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/567\/Picture5.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5400696864111498;width:945px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">Setup for novel time-resolved quasielastic neutron scattering (TR-QENS) experiments with in-situ light excitation. This method enables us to directly examine the modulation of picosecond protein dynamics during the functional cycle of photoactive proteins in real time.<br><br>(Burankova et al., <em>Biophys. J<\/em>., 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bpj.2026.02.028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bpj.2026.02.028<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examples of Our Work 1) Determination of light-induced active state protein structures Solution structures of the orange carotenoid protein (OCP) determined by small angle scattering under in-situ illumination depicted on the left side, illumination setup shown on the right side. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":336,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/neutronscattering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}