Article
Real time monitoring of sickle cell hemoglobin fiber formation by UV resonance Raman spectroscopy.
Biochemistry - 20 Oct 2009
Knee Kelly M, Mukerji Ishita
Abstract excerpt
In sickle cell hemoglobin, individual tetramers associate into long fibers as a consequence of the mutation at the beta6 position. In this study UV resonance Raman spectroscopy is used to monitor the formation of Hb S fibers in real time through aromatic amino acid vibrational modes. The intermolecular contact formed by the mutation site ((1)beta(1)6 Glu-->Val) of one tetramer and the (2)beta(2)85...
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