Raman Optical Activity of Biological Molecules

Abstract

… The majority of ROA studies on biomolecules have been reported for proteins and we present here an overview of protein ROA spectra. Vibrations of the peptide backbone are generally associated with three main regions of the Raman spectrum [27, 28]. The backbone skeletal stretch region ~870–1150 cm −1 originates in Cα–C, Cα–Cβ and Cα–N stretch coordinates; …