Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology
The most useful range for proteins is above 230 nm, where there are absorptions from aromatic side chains.
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Cystine (Cys2) possesses a weak absorption maximum of similar strength as phenylalanine at 250 nm.
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The absorption of UV light by nucleic acids arises from n ® p* and p ® p* transitions of the purine and pyrimidine bases that occur between 260nm and 275 nm.
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The absorption spectra of the bases in polymers are sensitive to pH and greatly influenced by electronic interactions between bases.
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The characteristic absorption parameter for the sample is the extinction coefficient a, yielding the correlation I= I0e-ad.