Monitoring the optical absorption or emission spectrum of a condensed phase sample offers information about the supramolecular assembly, packing effects and other features characteristic of the phase that would be missed when one studies solution-state spectra. We have used the technique of photoacoustic spectroscopy to study intact biological specimens, such as algae, parasite cells and the eye lens. Such a study has offered information about the status of endogenous hemin in Plasmodium cells and the mode of interaction of antimalarial drugs of the chloroquine class therein. We have also attempted to do in situ fluorescence spectroscopy on isolated intact eye lenses, which has enabled us to follow the photochemistry and the status of the photoproduct of the oxidation of the trp residues of the crystallins of the lens.
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December 01 1988
In situ optical spectroscopy of some systems of biological interest
D. Balasubramanian
D. Balasubramanian
1Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Online ISSN: 1573-4935
Print ISSN: 0144-8463
© 1988 Plenum Publishing Corporation
1988
Biosci Rep (1988) 8 (6): 497–508.
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D. Balasubramanian; In situ optical spectroscopy of some systems of biological interest. Biosci Rep 1 December 1988; 8 (6): 497–508. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01117328
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