Overview
- Provides a concise overview of investigations of ionic biochromophores
- First integrated overview of the photophysics of different classes of biomolecules: from single amino acids over peptides and proteins to DNA
- Introduces different experimental techniques for spectroscopic investigation of bio chromophore ions
- Highly interdisciplinary work with relevance to chemistry, physics and biology/life sciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Physical Chemistry in Action (PCIA)
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About this book
This volume focuses on biological systems from protein biochromophores, e.g. the protonated Schiff-base retinal responsible for vision, and individual aromatic amino acids to peptides and whole proteins, studied using visible, ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet light. Work on DNA nucleotides and strands that are amenable to mass spectrometric studies because of the negatively charged sugarphosphate backbone are also presented. DNA strands represent an example of the interplay between multiple chromophores, which is even harder to model correctly than just single chromophores due to spatially extended excited states and weak coupling terms. The experimental techniques used to measure spectra and commonly used theoretical methods are described with a discussion on limitations and advantages. The volume includes an updated status of the field and interesting future directions such as cold ionspectroscopy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Photophysics of Ionic Biochromophores
Editors: Steen Brøndsted Nielsen, Jean Ann Wyer
Series Title: Physical Chemistry in Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40190-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40189-3Published: 07 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52224-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40190-9Published: 16 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2197-4349
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4357
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry, general