Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.120, No.5, 886-890, 2016
Direct Measurements of the Crowding Effect in Proteins by Means of Raman Optical Activity
The effect of crowding interactions on the structure of dephosphorylated alpha-casein was studied with Raman optical activity (ROA). It was found that ROA is sensitive to the structural changes in the protein, induced by the presence of crowding agents. This effect depends on the employed crowding agent and its concentration.