Broad-Bandwidth Chiral Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy for Probing the Kinetics of Proteins at Interfaces
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The kinetics of proteins at interfaces plays an important role in biological functions and inspires solutions to fundamental problems in biomedical sciences and engineering. Nonetheless, due to the lack of surface-specific and structural-sensitive biophysical techniques, it still remains challenging to probe protein kinetics in situ and in real time without the use of spectroscopic labels at interfaces. Broad-bandwidth chiral sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy has been recently developed for protein kinetic studies at interfaces by tracking the chiral vibrational signals of proteins. In this article, we review our recent progress in kinetic studies of proteins at interfaces using broad-bandwidth chiral SFG spectroscopy. We illustrate the use of chiral SFG signals of protein side chains in the C-H stretch region to monitor self-assembly processes of proteins at interfaces. We also present the use of chiral SFG signals from the protein backbone in the N-H stretch region to probe the real-time kinetics of proton exchange between protein and water at interfaces. In addition, we demonstrate the applications of spectral features of chiral SFG that are typical of protein secondary structures in both the amide I and the N-H stretch regions for monitoring the kinetics of aggregation of amyloid proteins at membrane surfaces. These studies exhibit the power of broad-bandwidth chiral SFG to study protein kinetics at interfaces and the promise of this technique in research areas of surface science to address fundamental problems in biomedical and material sciences.
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