Electronic circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is an important tool for the elucidation of biomolecular structure. This review describes the latest progress and developments in experimental and theoretical studies of proteins using CD spectroscopy, including time-resolved measurements, oriented CD, and stateof-the-art experiments using polarized UV light from high-energy synchrotron radiation. Statistical and machine learning methods for the analysis of experimental spectra are surveyed. Computational methods employed to predict CD spectra from structure include ab initio quantum chemistry techniques, time-dependent density functional theory, and exciton theory. We describe recent computations using exciton theory, where we outline the importance of electronic-vibrational coupling and the influence of electrostatics of the protein environment on the electronic transitions in the chromophores responsible for CD signals in the near UV. Improvements in the accuracy of the computational approaches should allow more quantitative studies, applying a combination of experimental data and modeling to a variety of interesting questions. Fundamentals of the Phenomenon of Electronic Circular DichroismCircular dichroism (CD) is the differential absorption of left-and right-handed circularly polarized light. An elliptically polarized light wave results when a linearly polarized light wave passes through an optically active chiral compound. The magnitude of the effect is given by
Ultraviolet (UV) synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) spectroscopy has made an important contribution to the determination and understanding of the structure of bio-molecules. In this paper, we report an innovative approach that we term time-resolved SRCD (tr-SRCD), which overcomes the limitations of current broadband UV SRCD setups. This technique allows accessing ultrafast time scales (down to nanoseconds), previously measurable only by other methods, such as infrared (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), fluorescence and absorbance spectroscopies, and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The tr-SRCD setup takes advantage of the natural polarization of the synchrotron radiation emitted by a bending magnet to record broadband UV CD faster than any current SRCD setup, improving the acquisition speed from 10 mHz to 130 Hz and the accessible temporal resolution by several orders of magnitude. We illustrate the new approach by following the isomer concentration changes of an azopeptide after a photoisomerization. This breakthrough in SRCD spectroscopy opens up a wide range of potential applications to the detailed characterization of biological processes, such as protein folding and protein-ligand binding.
<a> </a><p><a></a><a>Ultraviolet (UV) synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) spectroscopy has made an important contribution to the determination and understanding of the structure of bio-molecules. In this paper, we report an innovative</a> approach that we term time-resolved SRCD (tr-SRCD), which overcomes the limitations of current broadband UV SRCD setups. This technique allows accessing ultrafast time scales (down to nanoseconds), previously measurable only by other methods, such as infrared (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), fluorescence and absorbance spectroscopies and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The tr-SRCD setup takes advantage of the natural polarisation of the synchrotron radiation emitted by a bending magnet to record broadband UV CD faster than any current SRCD setup, improving the acquisition speed from 10 mHz to 130 Hz and the accessible temporal resolution by several orders of magnitude. We illustrate the new approach by following the isomers concentration changes of an azopeptide after a photoisomerisation. This breakthrough in SRCD spectroscopy opens up a wide range of potential applications to the detailed characterisation of biological processes, such as protein folding, protein-ligand binding.<a></a></p>
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