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Protein Folding and Misfolding

Shining Light by Infrared Spectroscopy

Heinz Fabian, Dieter Naumann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
XVI, 244 Seiten
2013 | 2012
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-27057-4 (ISBN)
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This book explores biophysical methods for probing conformational changes with high kinetic and structural resolution, and the strengths and limitations of infrared spectroscopy for examining folding events over time scales ranging from picoseconds to minutes.
Infrared spectroscopy is a new and innovative technology to study protein folding/misfolding events in the broad arsenal of techniques conventionally used in this field. The progress in understanding protein folding and misfolding is primarily due to the development of biophysical methods which permit to probe conformational changes with high kinetic and structural resolution. The most commonly used approaches rely on rapid mixing methods to initiate the folding event via a sudden change in solvent conditions. Traditionally, techniques such as fluorescence, circular dichroism or visible absorption are applied to probe the process. In contrast to these techniques, infrared spectroscopy came into play only very recently, and the progress made in this field up to date which now permits to probe folding events over the time scale from picoseconds to minutes has not yet been discussed in a book. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the developments as seen by some of the main contributors to the field. The chapters are not intended to give exhaustive reviews of the literature but, instead to illustrate examples demonstrating the sort of information, which infrared techniques can provide and how this information can be extracted from the experimental data. By discussing the strengths and limitations of the infrared approaches for the investigation of folding and misfolding mechanisms this book helps the reader to evaluate whether a particular system is appropriate for studies by infrared spectroscopy and which specific advantages the techniques offer to solve specific problems.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Naumann is the head of biomedical spectroscopy at the Robert Koch Institute Berlin

Reconstruction of the Amide I contour in the IR spectra of proteins: From structure to spectrum; R.Mendelsohn (USA).- Millisecond-to-minute time-resolved protein folding/misfolding events monitored by FTIR spectroscopy; H. Fabian & D. Naumann (Germany).- Sub-millisecond events in proteins probed by continuous-flow FTIR experiments; S. Takahashi (Japan).- Protein folding/misfolding at high pressure probed by FTIR spectroscopy; R. Winter (Germany).-Site-specific relaxation kinetics of peptides using temperature-jump IR spectroscopy and isotopic labelling; A. Barth (Sweden), K.Hauser (Germany).- Nanosecond-to-millisecond time-resolved nonlinear infrared spectroscopy of proteins;M. Zanni (USA).- Light triggered peptide dynamics; W. Zinth & J. Wachtveitl (Germany).-Dynamics of alpha helix and beta-sheet formation; K. Hauser.- Time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy of peptides; A. Peralvarez-Martin, J. E.T. Corrie, A. Barth.-High pressure vibrationals spectroscopy of folding and misfolding proteins; M. Puehse, J. Markgraf, R. Winter

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.11.2013
Reihe/Serie Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Zusatzinfo XVI, 244 p.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 403 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Angewandte Physik
Schlagworte infrared spectroscopy • Protein folding/misfolding • Protein Structure • Protein studies • Time-resolved protein reactions • Time-resolved spectroscopy
ISBN-10 3-642-27057-3 / 3642270573
ISBN-13 978-3-642-27057-4 / 9783642270574
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