Abstract

Resonance Raman spectroscopy will be applied to nucleic acids, using ultraviolet laser excitation. Spectral responses to base pairing and stacking interactions, as well as to the backbone conformation, will be mapped. Applications to biologically important structures are planned. Flavins and flavoproteins will be studied via the surface enhanced Raman technique, using adsorption on silver colloids or electrodes to enhance the Raman spectrum while quenching fluorescence. Pyridoxal coenzymes will be studied with resonance Raman spectroscopy, using time-resolved techniques to explore their photochemistry.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01GM025158-08
Application #
3272804
Study Section
Metallobiochemistry Study Section (BMT)
Project Start
1978-06-01
Project End
1990-03-31
Budget Start
1986-04-01
Budget End
1987-03-31
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
1986
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Princeton University
Department
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
002484665
City
Princeton
State
NJ
Country
United States
Zip Code
08544

  Publications

Vaughn, Morgan B; Zhang, Jianyu; Spiro, Thomas G et al. (2018) Activity-Related Microsecond Dynamics Revealed by Temperature-Jump Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Measurements on Thermophilic Alcohol Dehydrogenase. J Am Chem Soc 140:900-903
Meadows, Corey W; Balakrishnan, Gurusamy; Kier, Brandon L et al. (2015) Temperature-Jump Fluorescence Provides Evidence for Fully Reversible Microsecond Dynamics in a Thermophilic Alcohol Dehydrogenase. J Am Chem Soc 137:10060-3
Jones, Eric M; Balakrishnan, Gurusamy; Squier, Thomas C et al. (2014) Distinguishing unfolding and functional conformational transitions of calmodulin using ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy. Protein Sci 23:1094-101
Balakrishnan, Gurusamy; Soldatova, Alexandra V; Reid, Philip J et al. (2014) Ultrafast charge transfer in nickel phthalocyanine probed by femtosecond Raman-induced Kerr effect spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 136:8746-54
Jones, Eric M; Monza, Emanuele; Balakrishnan, Gurusamy et al. (2014) Differential control of heme reactivity in alpha and beta subunits of hemoglobin: a combined Raman spectroscopic and computational study. J Am Chem Soc 136:10325-39
Soldatova, Alexandra V; Ibrahim, Mohammed; Spiro, Thomas G (2013) Electronic structure and ligand vibrations in FeNO, CoNO, and FeOO porphyrin adducts. Inorg Chem 52:7478-86
Spiro, Thomas G; Soldatova, Alexandra V; Balakrishnan, Gurusamy (2013) CO, NO and O2 as Vibrational Probes of Heme Protein Interactions. Coord Chem Rev 257:511-527
Balakrishnan, Gurusamy; Hu, Ying; Spiro, Thomas G (2012) His26 protonation in cytochrome c triggers microsecond ?-sheet formation and heme exposure: implications for apoptosis. J Am Chem Soc 134:19061-9
Balakrishnan, Gurusamy; Jarzecki, Andrzej A; Wu, Qiang et al. (2012) Mode recognition in UV resonance Raman spectra of imidazole: histidine monitoring in proteins. J Phys Chem B 116:9387-95
Jones, Eric M; Balakrishnan, Gurusamy; Spiro, Thomas G (2012) Heme reactivity is uncoupled from quaternary structure in gel-encapsulated hemoglobin: a resonance Raman spectroscopic study. J Am Chem Soc 134:3461-71

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