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By directly probing the photolyzed NO from MbNO at physiological conditions, the rebinding trajectories of the photoproduct were obtained, from which we found that a time-dependent barrier arising from protein relaxation on the same time scale as that of the rebinding process is responsible for the NO nonexponential rebinding.
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