Effects of ELF magnetic field on membrane protein structure of living HeLa cells studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
✍ Scribed by Toshitaka Ikehara; Hisao Yamaguchi; Keiko Hosokawa; Hiroshi Miyamoto; Katsuo Aizawa
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0197-8462
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The effects of exposure to a 50 Hz magnetic field (maximum of 41.7 to 43.6 mT) on the membrane protein structures of living HeLa cells were studied using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy. One min of such exposure shifted peak absorbance of the amide I band to a smaller wave number, reduced peak absorbance of the amide II band, and increased absorbance at around 1600 cm^−1^. These results suggest that exposure to the ELF magnetic field has reversible effects on the N–H inplane bending and C–N stretching vibrations of peptide linkages, and changes the secondary structures of α‐helix and β‐sheet in cell membrane proteins. Bioelectromagnetics 24:457–464, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.