Resonance Raman spectroscopy of biochemical and biological systems

4 Resonance Raman spectroscopy of biochemical and biological systems 

There has been tremendous work performed in molecular spectroscopy of biochemical and biological spectroscopy applying resonance Raman scattering. Several aspects have been discussed in detail by experts in the field. Spiro and Loehr (1975) have been one of the first researchers to summarize achievements made in the observation of res- 

In 1980-1982 comprehensive reviews on Raman and resonance Raman studies of biological and biochemical systems appeared in the literature (Carey and Solares, 1980 Carey, 1982). Particularly work on protein conformation, natural, protein-bound chro-mophores, resonance Raman labels (as already mentioned above), nucleic acids and nucleic acid-protein complexes as well as on lipids, membranes, and carbohydrates were reviewed. 

The great interest in resonance Raman spectroscopy as probe for studying biological systems still continues. Very recent results can be extracted from the biannual proceedings of the international Raman conferences (Durig and Sullivan, 1990 Kiefer et al., 1992 Yu and Li, 1994) and from the conferences on the spectroscopy of biological molecules (Bertoluzza et al., 1989 Hester and Gerling, 1991 Theophanides et al., 1993). 

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