Investigations of Low-Frequency Vibrational Dynamics and Ligand Binding Kinetics of Cystathionine β-Synthase

Vibrational coherence spectroscopy is used to study the low frequency dynamics of the truncated dimer of human cystathionine β-synthase (CBS). CBS is a pyridoxal-5′-phosphate-dependent heme enzyme with cysteine and histidine axial ligands that catalyzes the condensation of serine and homocysteine to form cystathionine. A strong correlation between the “detuned” coherence spectrum (which probes higher frequencies) and the Raman spectrum is...