Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules

Proceedings from the 14th European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules 2011

M.P. Marques, L.A.E. Batista de Carvalho, P.I. Haris, Maria Paula Marques, Luís A.E. Batista de Carvalho

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781614991830
• eBook ISBN: 9781614991847
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Biochemistry in Medicine

This book presents contributions from some of the leading experts in spectroscopic techniques including infrared, Raman, NMR, fluorescence and Circular Dichroism spectroscopy. Structural characterization of biomolecules, cells, tissues and whole organisms are amongst the topics that were covered by these experts at the 14th European Conference on Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules (ECSBM2011), held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, from 29th August to 3rd September 2011, of which this book contains the papers. The book would be particularly valuable for those interested in vibrational spectroscopy and imaging of cells and tissues, applications of spectroscopy in biotechnology, single cell studies and microbial characterization. It highlights the potential of spectroscopy and imaging in medical diagnosis and screening, and discusses issues related to methodology, including data acquisition, analysis and processing, that would be valuable for scientists who are new to the field. The book would be an important reference source for scientists in academia and industry as well as early stage researchers such as graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface: Proceedings of 14th European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules
• Contents
• Applications of infrared and Raman micro-spectroscopy of cells and tissue in medical diagnostics: Present status and future promises
• The application of biophysical techniques to study antimicrobial peptides
• Fluorescence lifetime imaging of propranolol uptake in living glial C6 cells
• Detection of Fusarium oxysporum fungal isolates using ATR spectroscopy
• Specific far infrared spectroscopic properties of phospholipids
• Impact of beta-turn sequence on beta-hairpin dynamics studied with infrared detected temperature jump
• Water activity
• Raman microspectroscopy of the yeast vacuoles
• Antimicrobial peptide from the eusocial bee Halictus sexcinctus interacting with model membranes
• Spectroscopic studies of methimazole reactivity toward the aquapentacyanoferrate(II) ion in aqueous solutions
• Can biofluids metabolic profiling help to improve healthcare during pregnancy?
• DCDR spectroscopy as efficient tool for liposome studies: Aspect of preparation procedure parameters
• Characterization of type I and IV collagens by Raman microspectroscopy: Identification of spectral markers of the dermo-epidermal junction
• Influence of fixation products used in the histological processing in the FTIR spectra of lung cells
• Brillouin neutron spectroscopy as a probe to investigate collective density fluctuations in bio-molecules hydration water
• Guanine - A combined study using vibrational spectroscopy and theoretical methods
• Pt(II) complexes with linear diamines. I - Vibrational study of Pt-diaminopropane
• Thymoquinone beta-cyclodextrin nanoparticles system: A preliminary study
• A new method for D2O/H2O exchange in infrared spectroscopy of proteins
• SERS microspectroscopy of biomolecules on dried Ag colloidal drops
• Spectroscopic study of the interaction of DNA with the linker histone H1 from starfish sperm reveals mechanisms of the formation of super condensed sperm chromatin
• Supramolecular organization of the complexes of DNA with chromosomal proteins HMGB1 and H1
• Study of cellular uptake of modified oligonucleotides by using time-resolved microspectrofluorimetry and florescence imaging
• Phosphorus compartmentalization on the cellular level of Douglas fir root as affected by Mn toxicity: A synchrotron based FTIR approach
• Raman spectroscopy of bacterial species and strains cultivated under reproducible conditions
• Amyloid-like structures formed by azobenzene-peptides: Light-triggered disassembly
• EPR and FTIR spectroscopies study of human blood after irradiation
• Evaluation of biochemical changes in skin-derived mesenchymal stem cells during in vitro neurodifferentiation by FT-IR analysis
• Theoretical and experimental studies on alkali metal phenoxyacetates
• Spectroscopic (FT-IR, Raman, NMR) and DFT quantum chemical studies on phenoxyacetic acid and its sodium salt
• Background estimation of biomedical Raman spectra using a geometric approach
• Structural perturbation of super-folder GFP in the presence of guanidine thiocyanate
• Protein-ligand interactions of the D-galactose/D-glucose-binding protein as a potential sensing probe of glucose biosensors
• A comparison between vanadyl, vanadate and decavanadate effects in actin structure and function: Combination of several spectroscopic studies
• The V30M amyloidogenic mutation decreases the rate of refolding kinetics of the tetrameric protein transthyretin
• THz and IR spectroscopy of molecular systems that simulate function-related structural changes of proteins
• Spectroscopic determination of pKa constants of MADS box segments
• The effect of bacterial adhesion on grafted chains revealed by the non-invasive sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy
• Application of FT-IR spectroscopy for fingerprinting of Zymomonas mobilis respiratory mutants
• Subject Index
• Author Index