The Ultrafast Laser Resource at the University of Pennsylvania is founding the technoogies for multidimensional infrared spectroscopy in biological and biomedical research including drug design. The components of the laboratory are an integrated multifaceted attack on advancing two dimensional infrared methods. Each TR&D is dynamically evolving at the cutting edge of infrared technology, they are mutually supportive. The utility of 2D IR in biomedical applications is increasing substantially. Just within the last year a protein structure has been determined by 2D IR. TR&D's #1 focuses on phototriggered states, the technology combines optical and infrared methods to obtain 2D IR structural-time dependent information during nonequilibrium dynamical processes. The TR&D #2 concerns dual frequency 2D IR which combines into a two dimensional spectrum the excitation of two modes having widely separated frequencies of proteins and proton channels. TR&D#3 involves a specialization on structure determination, to build on previous studies using 2D IR, by improvements in the methodology that are specifically geared towards the equilibrium dynamics of structures of proteins on time scales that have not been achieved by other structural methods. Six DBF's are included: (1)The M2 proton channel of the Influenza A virus: properties of channel water (W.F. DeGrado, UCSF).(2)The structure and dynamics of amyloid A40 fibrils and their formation kinetics (P. Abelson, Upend) (3) Phototriggering of conformational change (A.B. Smith, Upend)) (4) Pushing the Structural Resolution Limit of Linear and Nonlinear Infrared Spectroscopies (F. Gai, Upend) (5) Radical pair dynamics by optically triggered - IR probe spectroscopy (S. Vinogradov, Upend) (6) Spectroscopy and dynamics of HlV-1 RT/inhibitor complexes probed by 2D IR methods and MD simulations (E. Arnold, Rutgers). The proposal also includes seven Collaborative and Service projects on (1) Nitrile and Azide probes (Brewer) (2) Protonated histidines (Londergan) (3) Amyloid fluorescence (Petersson)(4) Blood coagulation (Knshnaswamy) (5) Kinases models (Sarkar)(6)Amyloid kinetics (Dai) (7) Oxygen microscopy (Vinogradov), The Resource provides training for users, and the work is widely disseminated.

Public Health Relevance

The resource employs driving biomedical projects, collaborative and service projects to explore and advance new methods of structure determination with ultrafast infared pulses which are applied in these research projects to expose mechanisms of action of the influenza A virus and HIV AIDS drugs acting on reverse transcriptase, the folding and misfolding of amyloid proteins and of dysregulaed blood coagulation

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Biotechnology Resource Grants (P41)
Project #
5P41GM104605-34
Application #
8847741
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1)
Program Officer
Sammak, Paul J
Project Start
1997-08-01
Project End
2016-05-31
Budget Start
2015-06-01
Budget End
2016-05-31
Support Year
34
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Pennsylvania
Department
Chemistry
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
042250712
City
Philadelphia
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
19104
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