STUDY OF SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN UNDER THE EFFECT OF MILLIMETER RANGE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

Abstract

The study of the effect of millimeter range electromagnetic waves (MM EMW) on bovine serum albumin (BSA) structure at the frequencies both resonant (51.8 GHz) and non-resonant (41.8 GHz) for water has been conducted. The absorption and fluorescence spectra of non-irradiated and irradiated samples of physiological solution and BSA with exposition 60 min were obtained. It was revealed that the spectral characteristics of physiological solution did not change under the effect of MM EMW, while the analogous characteristics of BSA change relevantly. It was also shown that the absorption spectra of the irradiated samples significantly differ from those of non-irradiated protein.