Raman spectroscopy and order in biological systems
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Vol. 6 (2) , 117-129
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02788591
Abstract
The Raman spectra in the low 5–200 cm−1 frequency region of metabolically activeE. coli cells have been analyzed to determine whether they are indicators of a possible in vivo underlying order by applying standard concepts derived from the Raman spectroscopy of crystalline systems with varying degrees of order. The analysis suggests that in-vivo space-time ordered structures involving amino acids associated with DNA exist since the low frequency lines of metabolically active cells can be assigned to lines seen in the spectra of crystals of given amino acids known to associated with DNA early in the lifetime of a cell.Keywords
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