Kenneth J. Rothschild – A pioneer of infrared difference spectroscopy of membrane proteins

Braiman M.S. Mogi T. Marti T. Stern L.J. Khorana H.G. and Rothschild K.J. , Vibrational spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin mutants: Light-driven proton transport involves protonation changes of aspartic acid residues 85, 96, and 212, Biochemistry 27(23) (1988), 8516–8520. doi:10.1021/bi00423a002.

Clark N.A. Rothschild K.J. Luippold D.A. and Simon B.A. , Surface-induced lamellar orientation of multilayer membrane arrays. Theoretical analysis and a new method with application to purple membrane fragments, Biophysical Journal 31(1) (1980), 65. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(80)85041-7.

Haris P.I. , Probing protein–protein interaction in biomembranes using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 1828(10) (2013), 2265–2271. doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.04.008.

Karjalainen E.L. and Barth A. , Vibrational coupling between helices influences the amide I infrared absorption of proteins: Application to bacteriorhodopsin and rhodopsin, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116(15) (2012), 4448–4456. doi:10.1021/jp300329k.

Luecke H. Schobert B. Richter H.T. Cartailler J.P. and Lanyi J.K. , Structure of bacteriorhodopsin at 1.55 Å resolution, Journal of Molecular Biology 291(4) (1999), 899–911. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1999.3027.

Ogren J.I. Yi A. Mamaev S. Li H. Spudich J.L. and Rothschild K.J. , Proton transfers in a channelrhodopsin-1 studied by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy and site-directed mutagenesis, J Biol Chem 290 (2015), 12719–12730. doi:10.1074/jbc.M114.634840.

Palczewski K. Kumasaka T. Hori T. Behnke C.A. Motoshima H. Fox B.A. Le Trong I. Teller D.C. Okada T. Stenkamp R.E. and Yamamoto M. , Crystal structure of rhodopsin: AG protein-coupled receptor, Science 289(5480) (2000), 739–745. doi:10.1126/science.289.5480.739.

Rothschild K.J. , The early development and application of FTIR difference spectroscopy to membrane proteins: A personal perspective, Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging 5(3) (2016), 231–267.

Rothschild K.J. Asher I.M. Anastassakis E. and Stanley H.E. , Raman spectroscopic evidence for two conformations of uncomplexed valinomycin in the solid state, Science 182(4110) (1973), 384–386. doi:10.1126/science.182.4110.384.

Rothschild K.J. and Clark N.A. , Anomalous amide I infrared absorption of purple membrane, Science 204(4390) (1979), 311–312. doi:10.1126/science.432645.

Rothschild K.J. De Grip W.J. and Stanley H.E. , Opsin structure probed by Raman spectroscopy of photoreceptor membranes, Science 191(4232) (1976), 1176–1178. doi:10.1126/science.1257742.

Rothschild K.J. and Stanley H.E. , Globular membrane proteins as functional units of ionic transport, in: Biomedical Physics and Biomaterials Science Stanley H.E. , ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, 1972, pp. 3–23.

Rothschild K.J. and Stanley H.E. , Models of ionic transport in biological membranes: Raman spectroscopy as a probe of valinomycin, gramicidin A′, and rhodopsin conformations, American Journal of Clinical Pathology 63(5) (1975), 695–713. doi:10.1093/ajcp/63.5.695.