Table 2 Selected wavenumbers by the GA-LDA to distinguish GDM and controls samples.

From: Spectrochemical differentiation in gestational diabetes mellitus based on attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy and multivariate analysis

Selected wavenumber (cm−1)

Tentative assignment

901

Phosphodiester stretching bands region (for absorbances due to collagen and glycogen)

1047

Glycogen band (due to OH stretching coupled with bending)

1462

CH2 scissoring mode of the acyl chain of lipid

1539

Protein amide II absorption- predominately b-sheet of amide II

1560

Ring base mode

1582

Ring C–C stretch

1645

Amide I

1661

Amide I

1693

High frequency vibration of an antiparallel β-sheet of Amide I

1747

ν(C=O) (polysaccharides, pectin)