Structure of condensed phase peptides: insights from vibrational circular dichroism and Raman optical activity techniques

TA Keiderling - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peptides and proteins are naturally chiral molecular systems so that sensing their structure
and conformation with chirality-based spectral methods is an obvious and long-used …

Structure of Silk I (Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin before Spinning) -Type II β-Turn, Not α-Helix-

T Asakura - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, considerable attention has been paid to Bombyx mori silk fibroin by a range of
scientists from polymer chemists to biomaterial researchers because it has excellent …

Protein secondary structure and orientation in silk as revealed by Raman spectromicroscopy

T Lefèvre, ME Rousseau, M Pézolet - Biophysical journal, 2007 - cell.com
Taking advantage of recent advances in polarized Raman microspectroscopy, and based on
a rational decomposition of the amide I band, the conformation and orientation of proteins …

Intrinsically fluorescent polyureas toward conformation-assisted metamorphosis, discoloration and intracellular drug delivery

Y Zhou, F Fan, J Zhao, Z Wang, R Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Peptidomimetic polymers have attracted increasing interest because of the advantages of
facile synthesis, high molecular tunability, resistance to degradation, and low …

Conformational Control of Macrocycles by Remote Structural Modification: Focus Review

SD Appavoo, S Huh, DB Diaz, AK Yudin - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The conformational analysis of macrocycles is a complex and challenging problem. There
are many factors that contribute to this complexity. These include a large number of degrees …

Advances in two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy

I Noda - Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2004 - Elsevier
Current state of the perturbation-based generalized two-dimensional (2D) correlation
spectroscopy is reviewed with the emphasis placed on the advances made since August …

Modulation of mechanical properties of short bioinspired peptide materials by single amino-acid mutations

SH Hiew, Y Lu, H Han, RA Gonçalves… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The occurrence of modular peptide repeats in load-bearing (structural) proteins is common
in nature, with distinctive peptide sequences that often remain conserved across different …

Neutral peptides in the gas phase: conformation and aggregation issues

E Gloaguen, M Mons, K Schwing… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Combined IR and UV laser spectroscopic techniques in molecular beams merged with
theoretical approaches have proven to be an ideal tool to elucidate intrinsic structural …

[HTML][HTML] Localizing normal modes in large molecules

CR Jacob, M Reiher - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We show how vibrational spectra obtained from quantum chemical calculations can be
analyzed by transforming the calculated normal modes contributing to a certain band in the …

Probing the competition between secondary structures and local preferences in gas phase isolated peptide backbones

W Chin, F Piuzzi, I Dimicoli, M Mons - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Combining laser desorption with a supersonic expansion together with the selectivity of
IR/UV double resonance spectroscopy makes it possible to isolate and characterise the gas …