自动pH滴定期间肌红蛋白结构的CD检测
Circular dichroism spectroscopy (CD) is very
sensitive to the secondary structure of
polypeptides and proteins. Circular dichroism is a
form of light absorption spectroscopy that
measures the difference in absorbance of rightand left-circularly polarized light (rather than the
commonly used absorbance of isotropic light) by a
substance. It has been shown that CD spectra
between 260 and approximately 180 nm can be
analyzed for the different secondary structure
types: alpha helix, beta sheet, beta turn, random
coils, etc. Secondary structure determination by
CD is reported to achieve accuracies of 0.97 for
helices, 0.75 for beta sheet, 0.50 for turns, and 0.89
for other structure types. In this application CD
will be used to follow the denaturation of
myoglobin during an automated pH titration with
acid.