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SUBMITTER: Flynn JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688611 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Flynn Jessica D JD Jiang Zhiping Z Lee Jennifer C JC
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20181127 52
Mapping conformational changes of α-synuclein (α-syn) from soluble, unstructured monomers to β-sheet- rich aggregates is crucial towards understanding amyloid formation. Raman microspectroscopy is now used to spatially resolve conformational heterogeneity of amyloid aggregates and monitor amyloid formation of segmentally <sup>13</sup> C-labeled α-syn in real-time. As the <sup>13</sup> C-isotope shifts the amide-I stretching frequency to lower energy, the ligated construct, <sup>13</sup> C<sub>1- ...[more]