Title :
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of lysozyme and mouse urinary protein single crystals
Author :
Tych, K.M. ; Burnett, A.D. ; Wood, Charles D. ; Malham, Richard W. ; Lianhe Li ; Cunningham, John E. ; Pearson, Arwen R. ; Paci, Emanuele ; Linfield, Edmund H. ; Davies, A. Giles
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Abstract :
Broadband time-domain spectroscopy was used to measure the terahertz frequency absorption of protein single crystals in order to study global protein dynamics. Temperature dependent dynamics were measured for lysozyme, and the terahertz frequency spectrum of mouse urinary protein was compared to calculated spectra.
Keywords :
biological techniques; biothermics; enzymes; molecular biophysics; terahertz spectroscopy; terahertz wave spectra; broadband time-domain spectroscopy; global protein dynamics; lysozyme; mouse urinary protein single crystals; temperature dependent dynamics; terahertz frequency absorption; terahertz time-domain spectroscopy; Absorption; Crystallization; Frequency measurement; Proteins; Spectroscopy; Temperature measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2013 38th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mainz
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2013.6665840