In this article, we address theory and explore possible implications of infrared–visible sum frequency generation microscopy imaging for structural and orientational analysis of a single polypeptide at a phospholipid membrane interface. The suggested structural analysis is based on detection of amplitude (intensity) images specific to a single protein under a given orientation, rather than on detection of spectral dispersions of responses from orientationally averaged ensembles. To establish the principle and model implications, we perform quantum-mechanical calculations of nonlinear responses of a pentadecapeptide helix and a penta-pentadecapeptide helical dimer, the secondary structure of which is identical to that of gramicidin. Using properties of calculated amide I modes, we account polarization settings for the mixing fields, under the considered experimental geometry, to extract images specific to χ YYY , χ XYY , χ XYX , χ YZY , and χ XYZ nonlinearities. If extracted in dependence on the angle of rotation of the sample holder, the reconstructed images provide information, which may allow identifying structure and orientation of the proteins under study. Hence, the approach may help addressing catalytic properties of proteins, whose role is to attune chemical permeability of membranes they associate with.

Resolving capacity of infrared–visible sum frequency generation microscopy to address discrete structural realizations of a protein at interface / Volkov, Victor; Chelli, Riccardo. - In: JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY. - ISSN 0377-0486. - STAMPA. - 47:(2016), pp. 828-838. [10.1002/jrs.4902]

Resolving capacity of infrared–visible sum frequency generation microscopy to address discrete structural realizations of a protein at interface

CHELLI, RICCARDO
2016

Abstract

In this article, we address theory and explore possible implications of infrared–visible sum frequency generation microscopy imaging for structural and orientational analysis of a single polypeptide at a phospholipid membrane interface. The suggested structural analysis is based on detection of amplitude (intensity) images specific to a single protein under a given orientation, rather than on detection of spectral dispersions of responses from orientationally averaged ensembles. To establish the principle and model implications, we perform quantum-mechanical calculations of nonlinear responses of a pentadecapeptide helix and a penta-pentadecapeptide helical dimer, the secondary structure of which is identical to that of gramicidin. Using properties of calculated amide I modes, we account polarization settings for the mixing fields, under the considered experimental geometry, to extract images specific to χ YYY , χ XYY , χ XYX , χ YZY , and χ XYZ nonlinearities. If extracted in dependence on the angle of rotation of the sample holder, the reconstructed images provide information, which may allow identifying structure and orientation of the proteins under study. Hence, the approach may help addressing catalytic properties of proteins, whose role is to attune chemical permeability of membranes they associate with.
2016
47
828
838
Volkov, Victor; Chelli, Riccardo
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