FTIR spectroscopy of metalloproteins
Oscar Gutiérrez-Sanz1, Olaf Rüdiger, Antonio L De Lacey
1Laboratorio de Bioelectrocatalisis, Departamento de Biocatalisis, Instituto de Catalisis y Petroleoquimica, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
Absorption of infrared radiation by proteins gives important information about their structure and function. The most intense infrared bands correspond to the overlap of all the peptide bond absorption. Additionally, in many metalloproteins their prosthetic groups have intrinsic ligands or bind substrates/inhibitors that absorb intensively in the infrared. Here, we describe thoroughly several Fourier transform infrared methods for studying structure-function relationships in metalloproteins, using hydrogenases as an example.
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