title: Secondary structure of pig skin proteodermatan sulfate: a perspective from Raman spectroscopic studies in aqueous solution.
abstract: Raman spectroscopic studies of pig skin proteodermatan sulfate in H2O are indicative of a well defined secondary structure consisting of alpha-helical, beta-turn, and possibly "random" structures. The above conclusion is surprisingly close to the secondary structure of the "core" protein of pig skin proteodermatan sulfate proposed in the previous paper (V. Renugopalakrishnan et al., Biopolymers 28, 1923-1933, 1989) from FT-IR and CD spectroscopic studies in aqueous solution.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Renugopalakrishnan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Damle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002807:Chondroitin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000032:analysis; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins; D011509:Proteoglycans / Q000032:analysis*; D012867:Skin / Q000032:analysis*; D012996:Solutions; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods; D013552:Swine; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D011509:Proteoglycans; D012996:Solutions; C028774:proteodermatan sulfate; D014867:Water; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate; D002807:Chondroitin