Spectroscopy in biology

Levinthal C 1969. In Debruimer P, J C M Tsibris and E Munck (Editors) Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Biological Systems, Proceedings of a Meeting held at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, Urbarra, p. 22. 

Levinthal, C. (1969). Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Biological Systems, Proceedings. University of Illinois Bulletin 41, 22—24. 

The study of metals in biological systems requires techniques, some of them highly specific, some limited to certain aspects of the metal ion in question, some of more general applicability. Thus, Mossbauer spectroscopy in biological systems is restricted to iron-containing systems because the only element available with a Mossbauer nucleus is 57Fe. The EPR spectroscopic techniques will be of application only if the metal centre has an unpaired electron. In contrast, provided that crystals can be obtained, X-ray diffraction allows the determination of the 3-D structure of metalloproteins and their metal centres. 

Debrunner, P., Tsibris, J. C. M., Munch, E. (editors) Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Biological System. University of Illinois Bulletin Urbana, 1969. 

Patterson MS, Pogue BW. Mathematical model for time-resolved and frequency-domain fluorescence spectroscopy in biological tissue. Applied Optics 1994, 33, 1963-1974. 

Bovee, W.M.M.J., de Certaines, J.D., Podo, F. (eds.) (1992). Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 

Although fluorescence has been a major hindrance for the use of Raman spectroscopy in biology, Shope and colleagues [116] clearly showed that the narrow Raman peaks were distinct from the broad features of fluorescence and proposed the use of full widths at half-height of the peaks for chemical quantitation from Raman spectra. Shope et al. [116] used a least squares fit to analyse the Raman spectra for quantification of the production of ethanol during the... 

Twardowski J, Anzenbacher P (1994) Raman and infrared spectroscopy in biology and biochemistry. Ellis Horwood, Chichester... 

A. T. Tu, Raman Spectroscopy in Biology. John Wiley, New York, 1982. 

Zlatanova J, Lindsay SM, Leuba SH (2000) Single molecule force spectroscopy in biology using atomic force spectroscopy. Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 74 37-61... 

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