Polarized infrared spectroscopy of oriented purple membrane
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Polarized infrared spectroscopy of oriented purple membrane
Abstract
Polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has been used to study the structure of purple membrane from Halobacterium halobium. Membranes were oriented by drying a suspension of membrane fragments onto Irtran-4 slides. Dichroism measurements of the amide I, II and A peaks were used to find the average spatial orientation of the bacteriorhodopsin alpha-helices. By deriving a function that relates the observed dichroism to the orientational order parameters for the peptide groups, helical axis distribution, and mosaic spread of the membranes, the average orientation of the alpha-helices was found to lie in a range of less than 26 degrees away from the membrane normal, agreeing with electron microscopic measurements. The frequency of the amide I and A peaks is at least 10 cm-1 higher than values found for most alpha-helical polypeptides and proteins. This may indicate that bacteriorhodopsin contains distorted alpha-helical conformations.
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