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ArticleBiochimica et biophysica acta2014

Protein helical structure determination using CD spectroscopy for solutions with strong background absorbance from 190 to 230nm.

Yang Wei, Aby A Thyparambil, Robert A Latour

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Article in Biochimica et biophysica acta, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yang WeiDepartment of Bioengineering, 501 Rhodes Engineering Research Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA.
Aby A ThyparambilDepartment of Bioengineering, 501 Rhodes Engineering Research Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA.
Robert A LatourDepartment of Bioengineering, 501 Rhodes Engineering Research Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA. Electronic address: LatourR@clemson.edu.
Clemson University · US

Funding

Targeted Nano-therapeutics for Neural RegenerationP20GM103444 · NIGMS · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI MARKWALD, ROGER R, VYAVAHARE, NAREN R · 2012 to 2018
$14.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103444
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conventional empirical methods for the quantification of the helical content of proteins in solution using circular dichroism (CD) primarily rely on spectral data acquired between wavelengths of 190 and 230nm. The presence of chemical species in a protein solution with strong absorbance within this range can interfere with the ability to use these methods for the determination of the protein's helical structure. The objective of this research was to overcome this problem by developing a method for CD spectral analysis that relies on spectral features above this wavelength range. In this study, we determined that the slopes of CD spectra acquired over the 230 to 240nm region strongly correlate with the helix contents including α-helix and 310-helix of protein as determined using conventional CD algorithms that rely on wavelengths between 190 and 230nm. This approach (i.e., the 230-240nm slope method) is proposed as an effective method to determine the helix content within proteins in the presence of additives such as detergents or denaturants with high absorbance of wavelengths up to 230nm.

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Circular dichroism spectroscopyDenaturantEmpirical algorithmProtein helical structure

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PMID25308773
PMCPMC4395514
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