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UV-CD12: synchrotron radiation circular dichroism beamline at ANKA

Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) is a rapidly growing technique for structure analysis of proteins and other chiral biomaterials. UV-CD12 is a high-flux SRCD beamline installed at the ANKA synchrotron, to which it had been transferred after the closure of the SRS Daresbury. The beamli...

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Autores principales: Bürck, Jochen, Roth, Siegmar, Windisch, Dirk, Wadhwani, Parvesh, Moss, David, Ulrich, Anne S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Union of Crystallography 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4416691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25931105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577515004476
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Sumario:Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) is a rapidly growing technique for structure analysis of proteins and other chiral biomaterials. UV-CD12 is a high-flux SRCD beamline installed at the ANKA synchrotron, to which it had been transferred after the closure of the SRS Daresbury. The beamline covers an extended vacuum-UV to near-UV spectral range and has been open for users since October 2011. The current end-station allows for temperature-controlled steady-state SRCD spectroscopy, including routine automated thermal scans of microlitre volumes of water-soluble proteins down to 170 nm. It offers an excellent signal-to-noise ratio over the whole accessible spectral range. The technique of oriented circular dichroism (OCD) was recently implemented for determining the membrane alignment of α-helical peptides and proteins in macroscopically oriented lipid bilayers as mimics of cellular membranes. It offers improved spectral quality <200 nm compared with an OCD setup adapted to a bench-top instrument, and accelerated data collection by a factor of ∼3. In addition, it permits investigations of low hydrated protein films down to 130 nm using a rotatable sample cell that avoids linear dichroism artifacts.