A stable ‘sandwich’ system of Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering for the analysis of β-carotenes in a photosynthetic pigment-protein complex
作 者:Qin XC, Zhu JJ, Wang WD, Ding X, Wang KB, Fang Y*, Kuang TY* |
影响因子:2.679 |
刊物名称:Journal of Raman Spectroscopy |
出版年份:2013 |
卷:44 期:8 页码:1111–1119 |
In plants, Photosystem I (PSI) is composed of a core complex and a membrane-associated antenna complex light-harvesting complex I that captures light and funnels its energy to the core complex. To obtain Raman structural information on β-carotenes embedded in the PSI core complex, a ‘sandwich’ system of roughened silver slice: target protein complexes: single silver nanoparticles was fabricated for Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering (SERRS) measurements. This study provided a method to overcome spectral irreproducibility, which is the main drawback of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering/SERRS-based studies. The Raman spectra of β-carotenes embedded in the PSI core complex can be obtained at very low sample concentrations (1–5 µg Chl/ml) and high signal/noise ratios. The β-carotenes in the spinach PSI core complex were predominantly all-trans configuration. The membrane protein-mediated adsorption of silver nanoparticles induced the uniform distribution of a large number of single nanoparticles, which contributed to achieving highly reproducible SERRS spectra. This study is the first to apply single silver nanoparticle-based SERRS analysis in membrane proteins.