Vibrational Spectroscopy in Protein Research, From Purified Proteins to Aggregates and Assemblies

• Provides thorough guidance in implementing cutting-edge vibrational spectroscopic methods from international leaders in the field
• Emphasizes in vivo, in situ and non-invasive analysis of proteins in biomedical and life science research more broadly
• Contains chapters that address vibrational spectroscopy for the study of simple purified proteins and protein aggregates, fibrous proteins, membrane proteins and protein assemblies

1. ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging of Proteins
Bernadette Byrne, James W. Beattie, Cai Li Song and Sergei G. Kazarian
2. Light-Induced Difference FTIR Spectroscopy of Photoreceptive Proteins
Hideki Kandori and Kota Katayama
3. Quantum Cascade Laser-based IR Transmission Spectroscopy of Proteins in Solution
Andreas Schwaighofer and Bernhard Lendl
4. Theoretical Simulation of Protein Two-Dimentional Infrared Spectroscopy
Zhijun Pan, Xian Chen, Tan Jin, Lu Zhang and Wei Zhuang
5. Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging for Understanding Neurodegenerative Protein-Folding Diseases
Lisa M. Miller
6. Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy in protein research
Mika Ishigaki and Yukihiro Ozaki
7. Vibrational imaging of proteins: changes in the tissues and cells in the lifestyle disease studies
Katarzyna Majzner, Krzysztof Czamara, Marta Z. Pacia, Jakub Dybas, Ewelina Bik, Karolina Chrabaszcz, Ewelina Wiercigroch, Aleksandra Dorosz, Adrianna Wislocka, Katarzyna M. Marzec, Kamilla Malek and Malgorzata Baranska
8. Interpretation of Vibrational Optical Activity Spectra of Proteins
Jana Hudecová and Petr Bour
9. Nano-scale analysis of protein self-assemblies
Ewelina Lipiec
10. Vibrational Spectroscopic Analysis and Quantification of Proteins in Human Blood Plasma and Serum
Clement Bruno, James M. Cameron, Drishya Rajan Parachalil, Matthew J. Baker, Franck Bonnier, Holly J. Butler and Hugh J. Byrne
11. Vibrational spectroscopy in protein research towards virus identification: challenges, new research and future perspectives
Marfran C. D. Santos, Camilo L. M. Morais, Kássio M. G. Lima and Francis L. Martin
12. Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy of Proteins
Yeonju Park, Isao Noda, Young Mee Jung
13. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of hemoglobin in red blood cells
Bayden R. Wood, Kamila Kochan and Katarzyna M. Marzec
14. Ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy for understanding structure and formation mechanism of amyloid fibrils
Joseph Handen and Igor K. Lednev
15. Recent advances in Raman spectroscopy of proteins for disease diagnosis
Keita Iwasaki, Hemanth Noothalapati, and Tatsuyuki Yamamoto
16. Dynamics and allostery of human hemoglobin as elucidated by time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy
Yasuhisa Mizutani
17. Immuno-SERS: from nanotag design to assays and microscopy
Yuling Wang, Yuying Zhang and Sebastian Schlücker
18. Highly localized characterization of protein structure and interaction by surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Janina Kneipp
19. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) chemosensing of proteins
Luca Guerrini and Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla