Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

3151-P os B oard B581 PARALLELS BETWEEN ENZYME ACTION AND TRYPTOPHAN FLUORESCENCE BRIGHTNESS IN PROTEINS. Pedro L. Muíño , Patrik R. Callis 3152-P os B oard B582 INVESTIGATION OF E. COLI HEPTOSYLTRANSFERASE I DYNAMICS. Joy M. Cote 3153-P os B oard B583 THE ROLE OF CHAPERONE PROTEINS IN CATARACT AGGREGATION: A TWO-DIMENSIONAL INFRARED STUDY. Tianqi O. Zhang , Martin T. Zanni 3154-P os B oard B584 DEVELOPMENT OF A VIBRATIONAL HYDRATION RULER. Elise Tookmanian , Edward Fenlon, Scott Brewer 3155-P os B oard B585 THE EFFECT OF SELENIUM TREATMENT ON-DIABETIC- INDUCED STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS IN THE MOLECULES OF RAT KIDNEY PLASMA MEMBRANE. Rafig Gurbanov , Sherif Abbas, Mehmet Bilgin, Feride Severcan 3156-P os B oard B586 international travel awardee A NOVEL METHOD FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA FROM HUMAN SERUM SAMPLES: ATR-FTIR SPECTROSCOPY. Dilek Yonar , Abdulsamet Sandal, Salih Emri, Feride Severcan 3157-P os B oard B587 INVESTIGATION OF GENDER EFFECT ON OBESITY USING A MODEL OF INBREED OBESE MOUSE LINES BY FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED IMAGING. Fatma Kucuk Baloglu , Gudrun Brockmann, Sebastian Heise, Sebnem Garip, Feride Severcan 3158-P os B oard B588 MEASURING THE DISTRIBUTION OF TAURINE MOLECULE INSIDE BIOLOGICAL TISSUE VIA INTRINSIC MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS USING NONLINEAR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY. Masahiko Kawagishi , Yuki Obara, Takayuki Suzuki, Masumi Hayashi, Kazuhiko Misawa, Sumio Terada Bioengineering (Boards B589-B611) 3159-P os B oard B589 THE ALPHA BETA REARRANGEMENT OF THE ASP-GLY SEQUENCE. Kazuki Koda, Kazuki Koda 3160-P os B oard B590 PHOTO-REGULATION OF SMALL G PROTEIN NORMAL AND ONCOGENIC K-RAS USING PHOTOCHROMIC MOLECULES. Seigo Iwata , Kaori Masuhara, Nobuhisa Umeki, Kazunori Kondo, Shinsaku Maruta 3161-P os B oard B591 HARNESSING THE DYNAMICAL MOVEMENT OF OMPG LOOPS FOR PROTEIN SENSING. Monifa Fahie, Christina Chisholm, B oard B592 MULTICOLOR MONOMERIC NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROTEINS. Daria M. Shcherbakova , Mikhail Baloban, Vladislav V. Verkhusha Min Chen 3162-P os

3140-P os B oard B570 PROBING THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STRUCTURE OF CARBON NANODOTS THROUGH FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING. Rachel Taylor , Jan Karolin, Chris Geddes 3141-P os B oard B571 FLUORESCENCE STUDIES OF A LONG LIFETIME FLUOROPHORE, ADOTA IN SILICA AND PVA THIN FILMS. Rahul Chib , Sangram Raut, Sunil Shah, Beata Grobelna, Irina Akopova, Ryan Rich, Thomas Just Sørensen, Bo W. . Laursen, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski 3142-P os B oard B572 A COMPARISON OF PHOTOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RHDL ENCAPSULATED ANTI-CANCER DRUG VALRUBICIN AND FREE VALRUBICIN. Sunil Ajit Shah , Rahul Chib, Sangram Raut, Jaclyn Bermudez, Nirupama Sabnis, Divya Duggal, Andras Lacko, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski 3143-P os B oard B573 SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS IN METAL-ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE. Jan O. Karolin , Hilla Ben Hamo, Chris D. Geddes 3144-P os B oard B574 ULTRASENSITIVE DETECTION ALLOWS FOR SINGLET OXYGEN PHOSPHORESCENCE DETECTION, AN IMPORTANT PREREQUISITE FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY. Marcelle Koenig , Manoel Veiga, Sebastian Tannert, Felix Koberling, Volker Buschmann, Matthias Patting, Marcus Sackrow, Michael Wahl, Rainer Erdmann, Peter Kapusta, Christian Wolf, Christian Kaufmann, Humberto Rodriguez 3145-P os B oard B575 ACCOUNTING FOR PHOTOPHYSICAL PROCESSES AND SPECIFIC SIGNAL INTENSITY CHANGE IN FLUORESCENCE- DETECTED SEDIMENTATION VELOCITY ANALYTICAL ULTRACENTRIFUGATION. Huaying Zhao , Jia Ma, Maria Ingaramo, Eric Andrade, Jeff MacDonald, Glen Ramsay, Grzegorz Piszczek, George Patterson, Peter Schuck 3146-P os B oard B576 SEDIMENTATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS OF THE EGFPS IN E.COLI WHOLE CELL EXTRACTS USING FLUORESCENCE DETECTION SYSTEM. Jia Ma , Huaying Zhao, Peter Schuck 3147-P os B oard B577 TWO-COLOR IMAGING USING SPECTRAL VARIANTS OF IRFP670 AND IRFP682 NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROTEINS. Mikhail Baloban , Daria M. Shcherbakova, Vladislav V. B oard B578 TUNING THE PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN WITH UNNATURAL AMINO ACIDS. Gregory M. Olenginski , Christine M. Phillips-Piro, Scott H. Brewer 3149-P os B oard B579 USE OF THE METHYL ESTER OF A FLUORESCENT UNNATURAL AMINO ACID TO FACILITATE SITE-SPECIFIC INCORPORATION OF FLUORESCENT PROBES IN PROTEINS. Joshua R. Berlin , William Lopez, Mohit R. Jain, Jorge E. Contreras 3150-P os B oard B580 DITHIOAMIDE PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS: SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION TO TRACKING PROTEIN CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES BY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY. Yun Huang Verkhusha 3148-P os

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