Spectroscopic studies of cold, gas-phase biomolecular ions

TR Rizzo, JA Stearns, OV Boyarkin - International Reviews in …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
While the marriage of mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy is not new, developments
over the last few years in this relationship have opened up new horizons for the …

Nitrile groups as vibrational probes of biomolecular structure and dynamics: an overview

BA Lindquist, KE Furse, SA Corcelli - Physical chemistry chemical …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper presents an overview of recent experiments and theoretical developments aimed
at using vibrational spectroscopy to understand the structure and dynamics of nitrile-labeled …

Map** hydration dynamics around a protein surface

L Zhang, L Wang, YT Kao, W Qiu… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Protein surface hydration is fundamental to its structure and activity. We report here the
direct map** of global hydration dynamics around a protein in its native and molten …

Biological water: A critique

D Zhong, SK Pal, AH Zewail - Chemical Physics Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
In this overview, we provide a critique of the hydration dynamics of macromolecules,
particularly those of protein and DNA. Only in the past decade has femtosecond …

[HTML][HTML] Existence of different structural intermediates on the fibrillation pathway of human serum albumin

J Juárez, P Taboada, V Mosquera - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
The fibrillation propensity of the multidomain protein human serum albumin (HSA) was
analyzed under different solution conditions. The aggregation kinetics, protein …

Hydration dynamics and time scales of coupled water− protein fluctuations

T Li, AA Hassanali, YT Kao, D Zhong… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We report experimental and theoretical studies on water and protein dynamics following
photoexcitation of apomyoglobin. Using site-directed mutation and with femtosecond …

Protein hydration dynamics and molecular mechanism of coupled water− protein fluctuations

L Zhang, Y Yang, YT Kao, L Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Protein surface hydration is fundamental to its structural stability and flexibility, and water−
protein fluctuations are essential to biological function. Here, we report a systematic global …

Exploring the diameter and surface dependent conformational changes in carbon nanotube-protein corona and the related cytotoxicity

X Zhao, D Lu, F Hao, R Liu - Journal of hazardous materials, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigated and compared carbon nanotubes (CNTs) of different diameters
regarding their interaction with bovine serum albumin (BSA) and their ability to alter protein …

Investigation on the interaction between tamoxifen and human holo-transferrin: determination of the binding mechanism by fluorescence quenching, resonance light …

S Sarzehi, J Chamani - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2010 - Elsevier
The interaction between tamoxifen (TMX) and human serum transferrin (HTF) was for the
first time studied at varying pH values by fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism (CD) …

Understanding the intricacy of protein in hydrated deep eutectic solvent: Solvation dynamics, conformational fluctuation dynamics, and stability

T Khan, N Das, KS Negi, S Bhowmik, P Sen - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are potential biocatalytic media due to their easy preparation,
fine-tuneability, biocompatibility, and most importantly, due to their ability to keep protein …