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Severini L, De France KJ, Sivaraman D, Kummer N, Nyström G. Biohybrid Nanocellulose-Lysozyme Amyloid Aerogels via Electrostatic Complexation. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:578-586. [PMID: 35036725 PMCID: PMC8757363 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c05069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Modern science is increasingly turning to nature for inspiration to design sustainable biomaterials in a smart and effective way. Herein, we describe biohybrid aerogels based on electrostatic complexation between cellulose and proteins-two of the most abundant natural polymers on Earth. The effects of both particle surface charge and particle size are investigated with respect to aerogel properties including the morphology, surface area, stability, and mechanical strength. Specifically, negatively charged nanocellulose (cellulose nanocrystals and cellulose nanofibers) and positively charged lysozyme amyloid fibers (full-length and shortened via sonication) are investigated in the preparation of fibrillar aerogels, whereby the nanocellulose component was found to have the largest effect on the resulting aerogel properties. Although electrostatic interactions between these two classes of charged nanoparticles allow us to avoid the use of any cross-linking agents, the resulting aerogels demonstrate a simple additive performance as compared to their respective single-component aerogels. This lack of synergy indicates that although electrostatic complexation certainly leads to the formation of local aggregates, these interactions alone may not be strong enough to synergistically improve bulk aerogel properties. Nevertheless, the results reported herein represent a critical step toward a broader understanding of biohybrid materials based on cellulose and proteins.
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- Leonardo Severini
- Department
of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University
of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
- Laboratory
for Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa—Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa—Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Building Energy Materials and Components, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa—Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Department
of Health Science and Technology, ETH Zürich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa—Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Department
of Health Science and Technology, ETH Zürich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has become one of the major techniques of structural characterization of proteins, peptides, and protein-membrane interactions. While the method does not have the capability of providing the precise, atomic-resolution molecular structure, it is exquisitely sensitive to conformational changes occurring in proteins upon functional transitions or intermolecular interactions. The sensitivity of vibrational frequencies to atomic masses has led to development of "isotope-edited" FTIR spectroscopy, where structural effects in two proteins, one unlabeled and the other labeled with a heavier stable isotope, such as 13C, are resolved simultaneously based on spectral downshift (separation) of the amide I band of the labeled protein. The same isotope effect is used to identify site-specific conformational changes in proteins by site-directed or segmental isotope labeling. Negligible light scattering in the infrared region provides an opportunity to study intermolecular interactions between large protein complexes, interactions of proteins and peptides with lipid vesicles, or protein-nucleic acid interactions without light scattering problems often encountered in ultraviolet spectroscopy. Attenuated total reflection FTIR (ATR-FTIR) is a surface-sensitive version of infrared spectroscopy that has proved useful in studying membrane proteins and lipids, protein-membrane interactions, mechanisms of interfacial enzymes, the structural features of membrane pore forming proteins and peptides, and much more. The purpose of this chapter was to provide a practical guide to analyze protein structure and protein-membrane interactions by FTIR and ATR-FTIR techniques, including procedures of sample preparation, measurements, and data analysis. Basic background information on FTIR spectroscopy, as well as some relatively new developments in structural and functional characterization of proteins and peptides in lipid membranes, is also presented.
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- Suren A Tatulian
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
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Násztor Z, Bogár F, Dér A. The interfacial tension concept, as revealed by fluctuations. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2016.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Yang SY, Butler IS. Pressure-tuning infrared and Raman microscopy study of the DNA bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2013; 31:1490-6. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2012.736775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hofmeister ions control protein dynamics. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2013; 1830:4564-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2013.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2013] [Revised: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 05/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Tatulian SA. Structural characterization of membrane proteins and peptides by FTIR and ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. Methods Mol Biol 2013; 974:177-218. [PMID: 23404277 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-275-9_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is widely used in structural characterization of proteins or peptides. While the method does not have the capability of providing the precise, atomic-resolution molecular structure, it is exquisitely sensitive to conformational changes occurring in proteins upon functional transitions or upon intermolecular interactions. Sensitivity of vibrational frequencies to atomic masses has led to development of "isotope-edited" FTIR spectroscopy, where structural effects in two proteins, one unlabeled and the other labeled with a heavier stable isotope, such as (13)C, are resolved simultaneously based on spectral downshift (separation) of the amide I band of the labeled protein. The same isotope effect is used to identify site-specific conformational changes in proteins by site-directed or segmental isotope labeling. Negligible light scattering in the infrared region provides an opportunity to study intermolecular interactions between large protein complexes, interactions of proteins and peptides with lipid vesicles, or protein-nucleic acid interactions without light scattering problems often encountered in ultraviolet spectroscopy. Attenuated total reflection FTIR (ATR-FTIR) is a surface-sensitive version of infrared spectroscopy that has proved useful in studying membrane proteins and lipids, protein-membrane interactions, mechanisms of interfacial enzymes, and molecular architecture of membrane pore or channel forming proteins and peptides. The purpose of this article was to provide a practical guide to analyze protein structure and protein-membrane interactions by FTIR and ATR-FTIR techniques, including procedures of sample preparation, measurements, and data analysis. Basic background information on FTIR spectroscopy, as well as some relatively new developments in structural and functional characterization of proteins and peptides in lipid membranes, are also presented.
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- Suren A Tatulian
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
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Dér A, Kelemen L, Fábián L, Taneva SG, Fodor E, Páli T, Cupane A, Cacace MG, Ramsden JJ. Interfacial Water Structure Controls Protein Conformation. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:5344-50. [PMID: 17458989 DOI: 10.1021/jp066206p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A phenomenological theory of salt-induced Hofmeister phenomena is presented, based on a relation between protein solubility in salt solutions and protein-water interfacial tension. As a generalization of previous treatments, it implies that both kosmotropic salting out and chaotropic salting in are manifested via salt-induced changes of the hydrophobic/hydrophilic properties of protein-water interfaces. The theory is applied to describe the salt-dependent free energy profiles of proteins as a function of their water-exposed surface area. On this basis, three classes of protein conformations have been distinguished, and their existence experimentally demonstrated using the examples of bacteriorhodopsin and myoglobin. The experimental results support the ability of the new formalism to account for the diverse manifestations of salt effects on protein conformation, dynamics, and stability, and to resolve the puzzle of chaotropes stabilizing certain proteins (and other anomalies). It is also shown that the relation between interfacial tension and protein structural stability is straightforwardly linked to protein conformational fluctuations, providing a keystone for the microscopic interpretation of Hofmeister effects. Implications of the results concerning the use of Hofmeister effects in the experimental study of protein function are discussed.
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- A Dér
- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA-SzBK), Pf. 521, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary.
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Nemec KN, Pande AH, Qin S, Bieber Urbauer RJ, Tan S, Moe D, Tatulian SA. Structural and functional effects of tryptophans inserted into the membrane-binding and substrate-binding sites of human group IIA phospholipase A2. Biochemistry 2006; 45:12448-60. [PMID: 17029400 DOI: 10.1021/bi061440r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) enzymes become activated by binding to biological membranes and hydrolyze phospholipids to free fatty acids and lyso-phospholipids, the precursors of inflammatory mediators. To understand the functional significance of amino acid residues at key positions, we have studied the effects of the substitution of Val(3) (membrane binding surface) and Phe(5) (substrate binding pocket) of human group IIA PLA(2) by tryptophan on the structure and function of the enzyme. Despite the close proximity of the sites of mutations, the V3W mutation results in substantial enhancement of the enzyme activity, whereas the F5W mutant demonstrates significantly suppressed activity. A structural analysis of all three proteins free in buffer and bound to membranes indicates that large differences in activities result from distinct conformational changes in PLA(2)s upon membrane binding. Although PLA(2) and the V3W mutant demonstrate a decrease in helical content and an increase in helix flexibility, the F5W mutant experiences partial distortion of the alpha-helical structure presumably resulting from the tendency of Trp(5) to insert into the membrane. Furthermore, whereas the PLA(2) and the V3W mutant bind to the membrane at similar and apparently productive-mode orientation, the F5W mutant binds to membranes with a distinctly different orientation. It is suggested that both the stimulatory effect of the V3W mutation and the inhibitory effect of the F5W mutation result from the high affinity of Trp for the membrane-water interface. Although Trp(3) at the membrane binding face of PLA(2) facilitates the proper membrane binding of the enzyme, Trp(5) in the internal substrate binding site causes partial unwinding of the N-terminal helix in order to interact with the membrane.
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- Kathleen N Nemec
- Biomolecular Science Center, University of Central Florida, 12722 Research Parkway, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA
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Qin S, Pande AH, Nemec KN, He X, Tatulian SA. Evidence for the Regulatory Role of the N-terminal Helix of Secretory Phospholipase A2 from Studies on Native and Chimeric Proteins. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:36773-83. [PMID: 16103116 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m506789200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) enzymes are activated by binding to phospholipid membranes. Although the N-terminal alpha-helix of group I/II PLA(2)s plays an important role in the productive mode membrane binding of the enzymes, its role in the structural aspects of membrane-induced activation of PLA(2)s is not well understood. In order to elucidate membrane-induced conformational changes in the N-terminal helix and in the rest of the PLA(2), we have created semisynthetic human group IB PLA(2) in which the N-terminal decapeptide is joined with the (13)C-labeled fragment, as well as a chimeric protein containing the N-terminal decapeptide from human group IIA PLA(2) joined with a (13)C-labeled fragment of group IB PLA(2). Infrared spectral resolution of the unlabeled and (13)C-labeled segments suggests that the N-terminal helix of membrane-bound IB PLA(2) has a more rigid structure than the other helices. On the other hand, the overall structure of the chimeric PLA(2) is more rigid than that of the IB PLA(2), but the N-terminal helix is more flexible. A combination of homology modeling and polarized infrared spectroscopy provides the structure of membrane-bound chimeric PLA(2), which demonstrates remarkable similarity but also distinct differences compared with that of IB PLA(2). Correlation is delineated between structural and membrane binding properties of PLA(2)s and their N-terminal helices. Altogether, the data provide evidence that the N-terminal helix of group I/II PLA(2)s acts as a regulatory domain that mediates interfacial activation of these enzymes.
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- Shan Qin
- Biomolecular Science Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA
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Hendler RW, Barnett SM, Dracheva S, Bose S, Levin IW. Purple membrane lipid control of bacteriorhodopsin conformational flexibility and photocycle activity. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 270:1920-5. [PMID: 12709050 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03547.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Specific lipids of the purple membrane of Halobacteria are required for normal bacteriorhodopsin structure, function, and photocycle kinetics [Hendler, R.W. & Dracheva, S. (2001) Biochemistry (Moscow)66, 1623-1627]. The decay of the M-fast intermediate through a path including the O intermediate requires the presence of a hydrophobic environment near four charged aspartic acid residues within the cytoplasmic loop region of the protein (R. W. Hendler & S. Bose, unpublished results). On the basis of the unique ability of squalene, the most hydrophobic purple membrane lipid, to induce recovery of M-fast activity in Triton-treated purple membrane, we proposed that this uncharged lipid modulates an electrostatic repulsion between the membrane surface of the inner trimer space and the nearby charged aspartic acids of the cytoplasmic loop region to promote transmembrane alpha-helical mobility with a concomitant increase in the speed of the photocycle. We examined Triton-treated purple membranes in various stages of reconstitution with native lipid suspensions using infrared spectroscopic techniques. We demonstrate a correlation between the vibrational half-width parameter of the protein alpha-helical amide I mode at 1660 cm-1, reflecting the motional characteristics of the transmembrane helices, and the lipid-induced recovery of native bacteriorhodopsin properties in terms of the visible absorbance maxima of ground state bacteriorhodopsin and the mean decay times of the photocycle M-state intermediates.
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- Richard W Hendler
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0510, USA
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Klink BU, Winter R, Engelhard M, Chizhov I. Pressure dependence of the photocycle kinetics of bacteriorhodopsin. Biophys J 2002; 83:3490-8. [PMID: 12496115 PMCID: PMC1302423 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(02)75348-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The pressure dependence of the photocycle kinetics of bacteriorhodopsin from Halobacterium salinarium was investigated at pressures up to 4 kbar at 25 degrees C and 40 degrees C. The kinetics can be adequately modeled by nine apparent rate constants, which are assigned to irreversible transitions of a single relaxation chain of nine kinetically distinguishable states P(1) to P(9). All states except P(1) and P(9) consist of two or more spectral components. The kinetic states P(2) to P(6) comprise only the two fast equilibrating spectral states L and M. From the pressure dependence, the volume differences DeltaV(o)(LM) between these two spectral states could be determined that range from DeltaV(o)(LM) = -11.4 +/- 0.7 ml/mol (P(2)) to DeltaV(o)(LM) = 14.6 +/- 2.8 mL/mol (P(6)). A model is developed that explains the dependence of DeltaV(o)(LM) on the kinetic state by the electrostriction effect of charges, which are formed and neutralized during the L/M transition.
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- B U Klink
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.
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Tatulian SA, Chen B, Li J, Negash S, Middaugh CR, Bigelow DJ, Squier TC. The inhibitory action of phospholamban involves stabilization of alpha-helices within the Ca-ATPase. Biochemistry 2002; 41:741-51. [PMID: 11790095 DOI: 10.1021/bi011148d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We have used attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopies to identify secondary and dynamic structural changes within the Ca-ATPase that result from the functional inhibition of transport activity by phospholamban (PLB). Isotopically labeled [(13)C]PLB was expressed and purified from Escherichia coli and was functionally reconstituted with unlabeled Ca-ATPase, permitting the resolution of the amide I and II absorbance bands of the Ca-ATPase from those of [(13)C]PLB. Upon co-reconstitution of the Ca-ATPase with PLB, spectral shifts are observed in both the CD spectra and the amide I and II bands associated with the Ca-ATPase, which are indicative of increased alpha-helical stability. Corresponding changes in the kinetics of H/D exchange occur upon association with PLB, indicating that 100 +/- 20 residues in the Ca-ATPase that normally undergo rapid amide H/D exchange become exchange resistant. There are no corresponding large changes in the secondary structure of PLB. The affinity of the structural interaction between PLB and the Ca-ATPase is virtually identical to that associated with functional inhibition (K(d) = 140 +/- 30 microM), confirming that the inhibitory regulation of the Ca-ATPase by PLB involves the stabilization of alpha-helices within the Ca-ATPase.
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- Suren A Tatulian
- Biochemistry and Biophysics Section, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2106, USA.
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Wang J, El-Sayed MA. The effect of protein conformation change from alpha(II) to alpha(I) on the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. Biophys J 2000; 78:2031-6. [PMID: 10733981 PMCID: PMC1300795 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76750-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The bacteriorhodopsin (bR) photocycle was followed by use of time-resolved Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy as a function of temperature (15-85 degrees C) as the alpha(II) --> alpha(I) conformational transition occurs. The photocycle rate increases with increasing temperature, but its efficiency is found to be drastically reduced as the transition takes place. A large shift is observed in the all-trans left arrow over right arrow 13-cis equilibrium due to the increased stability of the 13-cis isomer in alpha(I) form. This, together with the increase in the rate of dark adaptation as the temperature increases, leads to a large increase in the 13-cis isomer concentration in bR in the alpha(I) form. The fact that 13-cis retinal has a much-reduced absorption cross-section and its inability to pump protons leads to an observed large reduction in the concentration of the observed photocycle intermediates, as well as the proton gradient at a given light intensity. These results suggest that nature might have selected the alpha(II) rather than the alpha(I) form as the helical conformation in bR to stabilize the all-trans retinal isomer that is a better light absorber and is capable of pumping protons.
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- J Wang
- Laser Dynamics Laboratory, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA
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