Polarized Raman spectroscopy is used to provide evidence of hemoglobin protein ordering as the red blood cell (RBC) is stretched with optical tweezers. The stretching of the cell is intended to mimic the deformation that it experiences as it travels through vessels and capillaries. The depolarization ratios for a number of heme Raman bands change as the cell is stretched, confirming the semi-ordered nature of the hemoglobin ensemble in the cytoplasm. Furthermore, trends observed in the ratio shifts point to increased packing and ordering of the Hb after cell stretching. This evidence should shed more light on to the role of deformation in the RBC function.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Polarization Raman study of protein ordering by controllable RBC deformation
Satish Rao, Stefan Bálint, Luisa del Carmen Frias, Dmitri Petrov
Polarized Raman spectroscopy is used to provide evidence of hemoglobin protein ordering as the red blood cell (RBC) is stretched with optical tweezers. The stretching of the cell is intended to mimic the deformation that it experiences as it travels through vessels and capillaries. The depolarization ratios for a number of heme Raman bands change as the cell is stretched, confirming the semi-ordered nature of the hemoglobin ensemble in the cytoplasm. Furthermore, trends observed in the ratio shifts point to increased packing and ordering of the Hb after cell stretching. This evidence should shed more light on to the role of deformation in the RBC function.
Polarized Raman spectroscopy is used to provide evidence of hemoglobin protein ordering as the red blood cell (RBC) is stretched with optical tweezers. The stretching of the cell is intended to mimic the deformation that it experiences as it travels through vessels and capillaries. The depolarization ratios for a number of heme Raman bands change as the cell is stretched, confirming the semi-ordered nature of the hemoglobin ensemble in the cytoplasm. Furthermore, trends observed in the ratio shifts point to increased packing and ordering of the Hb after cell stretching. This evidence should shed more light on to the role of deformation in the RBC function.
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