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Advanced Spectroscopic Methods to Study Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

  • 1st Edition - September 28, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Prakash Saudagar, Timir Tripathi
  • Language: English

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Advanced Spectroscopic Methods to Study Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics presents the latest emerging technologies in spectroscopy and advances in established spectroscopic methods. The book presents a guide to research methods in biomolecular spectroscopy, providing comprehensive coverage of developments in the spectroscopic techniques used to study protein structure and dynamics. Seventeen chapters from leading researchers cover key aspects of spectroscopic methods, with each chapter covering structure, folding, and dynamics. This title will help researchers keep up-to-date on the latest novel methods and advances in established methods.

Key features

  • Presents current, emerging, and evolving advances and applications of spectroscopic techniques in the study of biomolecules, including proteins and nucleic acids
  • Discusses contemporary spectroscopic techniques used to study biomolecular structure, interaction, and dynamics

Readership

Researchers and advanced students in biophysics, structural biology, computational biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and related areas.

Table of contents

1. Fundamentals of spectroscopy for biomolecular structure and dynamics

2. Fluorescence-based techniques to assess biomolecular structure and dynamics

3. Structural analysis of biomacromolecules using circular dichroism spectroscopy

4. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for protein structure, folding, and dynamics

5. Advanced NMR spectroscopy methods to study protein structure and dynamics

6. Applications of infrared spectroscopy to study proteins

7. Raman spectroscopy to study biomolecules, their structures, and dynamics

8. Spectroscopic investigation of biomolecular dynamics using light scattering methods

9. Protein footprinting by mass spectrometry: H/D exchange, specific amino acid labeling, and fast photochemical oxidation of proteins

10. Small angle scattering techniques for biomolecular structure and dynamics

11. Advances in X-ray crystallography methods to study structural dynamics of macromolecules

12. Spectroscopic methods to study protein folding kinetics: methodology, data analysis, and interpretation

13. Spectroscopic methods to study the thermodynamics of biomolecular interactions

14. Spectroscopic methods to detect and analyze protein oligomerization, aggregation, and fibrillation

15. Multimodal spectroscopic methods for the analysis of carbohydrates

16. Integration of spectroscopic and computational data to analyze protein structure, function, folding, and dynamics

17. Advance data handling tools for easy, fast, and accurate interpretation of spectroscopic data

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 28, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Prakash Saudagar

Dr. Prakash Saudagar is an active researcher and a sterling classroom teacher, currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, in 2013. His research has immensely contributed to exploring potential drug target proteins and inhibitors. His research interests include molecular and biochemical parasitology, infectious disease, and protein biochemistry. He has a strong command over computational techniques and in-vitro techniques used to study proteins. He has published more than 40 research articles in reputed journals like the International Journal of Biological Molecules, FEBS, FEBS OpenBio, PLOS one, Scientific Reports, Biological Chemistry, Parasitology International, Molecular Simulation, etc., and book chapters in Elsevier and Springer to his name. He has been PI/Co-PI in research grants from SERB and DST. He has been awarded the B.S. Narasinga Rao award SBC, India (2011), Best presentation award, ICIDN, Nepal (2015), Young Faculty Award, VIF India (2016), and Young Scientist Award, Telangana Academy of Science (2018). He is an associate fellow of the Telangana Academy of Science (2018) and a life member of the Indian Science Congress and Society of Biological Chemists. He has guided several Ph.D. and M.Tech. students, postdoctoral fellows, project fellows, and trainees. He has many interdisciplinary collaborating partners in prestigious institutions in India and abroad.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India

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Timir Tripathi

Dr. Timir Tripathi is a Professor of Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He previously held positions as Regional Director of IGNOU in Kohima and a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at NEHU. His research focuses on protein–substrate interactions, conformational dynamics, and the regulatory roles of non-catalytic domains. He is especially interested in intrinsically disordered and phase-separated proteins, their roles in disease, and, more recently, molecular memory, adaptive learning, and intelligence in proteins. Professor Tripathi has received several awards and is an Associate Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, India. He is a section editor of Elsevier's International Journal of Biological Macromolecules and has published five books with Elsevier.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

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