Through the use of site-directed mutagenesis and chemical rescue, we have identified the proton acceptor for redox-active tyrosine D in photosystem II (PSII). Effects of chemical rescue on the tyrosyl radical were monitored by EPR spectroscopy. We also have acquired the Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrum associated with the oxidation of tyrosine D and concomitant protonation of the acc...

Fourier transformation infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy has been used to measure glucose concentrations in different matrices. The accuracy of the FT-IR technique does not meet the requirements of medical applications, so we have developed a new, efficient and precise method based on attenuated total reflectance coupled with wavelet transformation (ATR-WT-IR). One thousand interferograms, divided ...

Horizontal attenuation total reflection Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy (HATR-FT-IR) studies on cuscutae semen and its confusable varieties Japanese dodder and sinapis semen combined with discrete wavelet transformation (DWT) and radial basis function (RBF) neural networks have been conducted in order to classify them. DWT is used to decompose the FT-IRs of cuscutae semen, Japanese...

4(4-nitrophenyl-zao)-2-(2-methoxy phenimino)-phenol and its coordination compounds with ni(ii), cu(ii), co(ii) and fe(iii) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, ft-ir, far-ir, near ir, uv-vis, mass spectrometry and molar conductivity and their electrochemical behaviours are reported.

BACKGROUND The infrared (IR) analysis of dried samples of DNA and DNA-polypeptide complexes is still scarce. Here we have studied the FT-IR profiles of these components to further the understanding of the FT-IR signatures of chromatin and cell nuclei. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Calf thymus and salmon testis DNA, and complexes of histone H1, protamine, poly-L-lysine and poly-L-arginine (hi...

background: the seminal plasma is an excellent source for noninvasive detection of spermatogenesis. the seminal plasma of normospermic and azoospermic men has been analyzed for detection of spermatogenesis. methods: optical spectroscopy (attenuated total reflectance-infrared spectroscopy (atr-ir) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir) has been used to analyze the seminal plasma and...