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Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

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2013

Proteins

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New Tools To Study Amyloid Fibrils And Intrinsically Disordered Proteins In Vitro And In Vivo, Jacqueline D. Washington Jan 2013

New Tools To Study Amyloid Fibrils And Intrinsically Disordered Proteins In Vitro And In Vivo, Jacqueline D. Washington

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Amyloid fibrils are β-sheet-rich protein aggregates commonly found in the organs and tissues of patients with various amyloid-associated diseases. The structure of insulin fibrils was characterized by deep ultraviolet resonance Raman and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy combined with hydrogen-deuterium exchange. Our new approach of combining NMR and Raman spectroscopy with molecular dynamic simulations for characterizing amyloid fibrils provided exclusive knowledge about fibril structure at amino acid residue resolution.


Protein Structures Under Physiological Conditions, Karl Michael Bertrand Jan 2013

Protein Structures Under Physiological Conditions, Karl Michael Bertrand

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

My research focused on the evaluation of protein structures and protein dynamics inside eukaryotic cells under physiological conditions. The primary analyses of my research involved the use of in-cell Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy using Heteronuclear Single Quantum Coherence experiments. This allowed me to visualize protein structures at an atomic resolution level, as well as, study the interactions of these proteins with small molecules.