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72 Fabian and Vogel<br />

4. ATR-FTIR spectroscopy is, of course, an important technique for studying the<br />

association of membrane proteins or peptides with membranous or membrane<br />

minetic surfaces. The technique allows detection of the changes in secondary<br />

structure that accompany their binding; moreover the orientation (e.g., parallel or<br />

perpendicular to the membrane surface) can be determined. (e.g., ref. 29).<br />

5. <strong>Protein</strong> concentrations are most-accurately determined spectroscopically using<br />

published extinction coefficients or by quantitative amino acid analysis of stock<br />

solutions.<br />

6. The trifluoro acetate has a strong infrared absorption band at 1673 cm –1 that can<br />

overlap with the amide I band of the peptide. In some synthetic peptide preparations,<br />

it is best to remove the TFA completely. This can be accomplished by<br />

repeated lyophilization from 10 mM hydrochloric acid (30).<br />

References<br />

1. Goormaghtigh, E., Cabiaux, V., and Ruyschaert, J.-M. (1994) Determination of<br />

soluble and membrane protein structure by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,<br />

in Subcellular Biochemistry, vol. 23, Physicochemical Methods in the Study<br />

of Biomembranes (Hilderson, H. J. and Ralston, B. G., eds.), Plenum, New York,<br />

pp. 329–450.<br />

2. Fabian, H. and Mantsch, H. H. (1995) Ribonuclease A revisited: Infrared spectroscopic<br />

evidence for the lack of native-like structures in the thermally denatured<br />

state. Biochemistry 33, 10,725–10,730.<br />

3. Alben, J. O. and Fiamingo, F. G. (1984) Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, in<br />

Optical Techniques in Biological Research (Rousseau, D. L., ed.), Academic, New<br />

York, pp. 133–179.<br />

4. Venyaminov, S. Y. and Prendergast, F. G. (1997) Water (H2O and D2O) molar<br />

absorptivity in the 1000–4000 cm –1 range and quantitative infrared spectroscopy of<br />

aqueous solutions. Anal. Biochem. 248, 234–245.<br />

5. Jackson, M. and Mantsch, H. H. (1995) The use and misuse of FTIR spectroscopy<br />

in the determination of protein structure. Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 30,<br />

95–120.<br />

6. Nara, M., Tasumi, M., Tanokura, M., Hiraoki, T., Yazuwa, M., and Tsutsumi, A.<br />

(1994) Infrared studies of interaction between metal ions and Ca2+ -binding proteins.<br />

Marker bands for identifying the types of coordination of the side-chain COO- groups to metal ions in pike parvalbumin. FEBS Lett. 349, 84–88.<br />

7. Nara, M., Tanokura, M., Yamamoto, T., and Tasumi, M. (1995) A comparative study<br />

of the binding effects of Mg2+ , Ca2+ , Sr2+ , and Cd2+ on calmodulin by Fouriertransform<br />

infrared spectroscopy. Biospectroscopy 1, 47–54.<br />

8. Moffatt, D. J. and Mantsch, H. H. (1992) Fourier resolution enhancement of infrared<br />

spectral data. Methods Enzymol. 210, 192–200.<br />

9. Surewicz, W. K., Mantsch, H. H., and Chapman, D. (1993) Determination of protein<br />

secondary structure by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Biochemistry<br />

32, 389–394.

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