Effects of metal ion binding on an oncomodulin mutant containing a novel calcium-binding loop

The Ca²⁺-binding protein oncomodulin was altered by cassette mutagenesis of the CD site (CDOM33) with a sequence that was derived by a consensus method using over 250 known Ca²⁺-binding loop sequences. This mutant was studied using time-resolved and steady-state fluorescence from the Trp residue included at position 7 of the loop (position 57 of the protein sequence). The fluorescence characteristics of this species in the absence and presence of metal ions were compared to those of a tetradecapeptide containing the loop and the single Trp mutant of oncomodulin, Y57W. The fluorescence properties of CDOM33 were quite different from the peptide, both in the apo form and in response to metal binding. The consensus CD loop in CDOM33 exhibited the characteristics of a Ca²⁺/Mg²⁺ site in contrast to the Ca²⁺ specificity of the wild-type CD loop. The Trp analogue, 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HW), was incorporated into both oncomodulin mutants to produce Y75(5HW) and 5HW-CDOM33. Results showed that this intrinsic probe was relatively insensitive to structural changes in the mutants upon metal binding compared to Trp itself.     

Conformational Flexibility of Cytokine-Like C-Module of Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase Monitored by Trp144 Intrinsic Fluorescence

The non-catalytic COOH-terminal module formed after proteolytic cleavage of full-length mammalian tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase displays dual function: tRNA binding ability and cytokine activity. With the aim to explore the intramolecular dynamics of C-module in solution we used fluorescence spectroscopy to study conformational changes of isolated protein. We used information from fluorescence spectra and computational model for characterization of a microenvironment of a single tryptophan residue (Trp144). Its fluorescence parameters and protection from quenching by Cs⁺ ions indicate the internal localization—buried into protein globule. The fluorescence quenching of Trp144 by acrylamide suggests rapid conformation dynamics of the C-module in nanosecond time scale. The temperature-induced conformational changes in the C-module were monitored by the fluorescence measurements of Trp144 emission and by red-edge excitation shift. An emission maximum shift up to ∼349 nm and significant decrease of the red-edge shift effect at 37–52 °C indicated a major conformational transition of Trp144 from buried native state into highly relaxing polar solvent environment.     

Tryptophan Fluorescence Yields and Lifetimes as a Probe of Conformational Changes in Human Glucokinase

Five variants of glucokinase (ATP-D-hexose-6-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.1) including wild type and single Trp mutants with the Trp residue at positions 65, 99, 167 and 257 were prepared. The fluorescence of Trp in all locations studied showed intensity changes when glucose bound, indicating that conformational change occurs globally over the entire protein. While the fluorescence quantum yield changes upon glucose binding, the enzyme’s absorption spectra, emission spectra and fluorescence lifetimes change very little. These results are consistent with the existence of a dark complex for excited state Trp. Addition of glycerol, L-glucose, sucrose, or trehalose increases the binding affinity of glucose to the enzyme and increases fluorescence intensity. The effect of these osmolytes is thought to shift the protein conformation to a condensed, high affinity form. Based upon these results, we consider the nature of quenching of the Trp excited state. Amide groups are known to quench indole fluorescence and amides of the polypeptide chain make interact with excited state Trp in the relatively unstructured, glucose-free enzyme. Also, removal of water around the aromatic ring by addition of glucose substrate or osmolyte may reduce the quenching.     

Structural Characteristic of Folding/Unfolding Intermediate of Pokeweed Anti-viral Protein Revealed by Time-resolved Fluorescence

The structural feature of unfolding intermediate of pokeweed anti-viral protein (PAP) was characterized using time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic methods to elucidate protein folding/unfolding process. CD and fluorescence spectra consistently demonstrated that the unfolding of PAP completed at 4 M of guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl). The fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and time-resolve fluorescence depolarization analysis of Trp208 and Trp237 located in the C-terminal domain of PAP suggested that peculiar unfolding intermediate populated before reaching to the unfolding state. The FRET distance of Trp237 to Tyr182 was extended to more than 28 Å with keeping the compact conformation in the unfolding intermediate state populated in the presence of 2 M GuHCl. On the other hand, Trp208 maintained the energy transfer pair with Tyr72 near the active site, although the rotational freedom was increased a little. There results suggest that the most distinguished structural feature of the unfolding intermediate of PAP is the separation of C-terminal domain from N-terminal domain. FRET and fluorescence depolarization studies also showed that C-terminal domain would be more separated to liberate the segmental motions of Trp208 and Trp237 distinctly at the unfolding state.     

鸡肝脏谷胱甘肽转移酶的荧光光谱分析

谷胱甘肽转移酶是生物体内一种重要的解毒酶,排除外源和内源毒素,维护肌体的正常功能。文章从荧光角度研究了谷胱甘肽转移酶光谱性质,得到谷胱甘肽转移酶的三维荧光谱图,确定了色氨酸、酪氨酸的荧光峰,以及肽链骨架荧光峰。根据其峰位的红移或蓝移,以及在不同pH条件下氨基酸荧光峰强度、位置变化,推断谷胱甘肽转移酶构象变化以及色氨酸在酶分子中的位置。     

Exploration of twisted intramolecular charge transfer fluorescence properties of trans-2-[4-(dimethylamino)styryl]benzothiazole to characterize the protein–surfactant aggregates

The characterization of aggregates of an anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) with bovine serum albumin (BSA) in various regions of binding isotherm of SDS to BSA with increasing concentration of the former have been done by exploring the twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) fluorescence properties of a probe, trans-2-[4-(dimethylamino)styryl] benzothiazole (DMASBT). The TICT fluorescence, steady-state fluorescence anisotropy and time-resolved fluorescence of DMASBT, and the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) study reveal the characteristics of the native protein as well as the protein–surfactant aggregates viz., micropolarity, microviscosity, locations of probe, denaturation of protein in various regions of binding isotherm, and also the validation of necklace-bead model. The changes in the polarity and the viscosity of the microenvironment around the probe from one binding region of SDS to other have been reflected in the highly sensitive fluorescence properties of DMASBT. The study of FRET between the DMASBT and the tryptophan residue (Trp) of BSA has identified the locations of the probe molecule in the native protein as well as that in various BSA–SDS aggregates. The energy transfer efficiency decreases, whereas the distance between the DMASBT and the Trp residue increases with increasing concentration of SDS. The significant change in the conformations of protein molecules during the non-cooperative binding region of SDS is evidenced by the fluorescence anisotropic behavior of DMASBT in the same region.     

水杨酸与牛血清蛋白相互作用的荧光光谱研究

应用荧光光谱研究了水杨酸与牛血清蛋白 (BSA)分子间的相互作用。研究表明 :水杨酸对BSA内源荧光的猝灭机制属于形成化合物所引起的静态猝灭 ,猝灭常数Ksv 为 1 0 97× 10 4 (mol·L- 1 ) - 1 ;水杨酸与BSA反应的结合常数为 7 377× 10 4 ,结合位点数为 1,当水杨酸浓度较低 (摩尔比小于 1∶1)时 ,它与Trp残基或其附近基团结合但并不引起Trp残基微环境的改变 ;根据F rster非辐射能量转移理论 ,计算了授体 受体间的结合距离和能量转移效率     

多光谱法和分子对接模拟法研究黄腐植酸和牛血清白蛋白的相互作用

在模拟生理环境中,使用荧光光谱法、紫外光谱法、圆二色谱法、同步荧光光谱法、三维荧光光谱法与分子对接模拟法研究黄腐植酸和牛血清白蛋白(BSA)之间相互作用。在荧光光谱法研究中,经Stern-Volmer方程计算得到298,303和308 K温度下的动态荧光猝灭速率常数K_q和猝灭常数,证明BSA与黄腐殖酸(FA)相互作用的猝灭过程为静态猝灭;同时根据计算得出的结合位点数n都在1附近,FA与BSA体系相互作用比为1∶1;利用静态猝灭双对数方程计算三个温度下的热力学参数,焓变ΔH<0,熵变ΔS＜0,得出结论,FA与BSA之间的主要作用力为氢键和范德华力;ΔG＜0,说明作用过程为自发过程。采用Förster’s偶极-偶极非辐射能量转移理论,计算出结合距离r=6.340 nm,表明BSA与FA之间存在非辐射能量转移。分子对接模拟结果表明FA与BSA残基的结合作用力具有氢键和范德华力,同时二者之间还存在疏水作用力,多种力共同作用使FA与BSA能够稳定结合。通过对FA与BSA相互作用的紫外-可见吸收光谱分析,发现BSA最大吸收峰发生了较为明显的红移,表明FA使BSA的二级结构发生改变。通过研究FA与BSA相互作用的同步荧光光谱,得到FA使BSA中的色氨酸（Trp）残基周围的微环境极性增强,疏水性减弱,亲水性增强,使BSA的蛋白质构象发生了一定程度的改变。通过研究FA与BSA相互作用的三维荧光光谱,峰1（peak 1）与峰2（peak 2）的最大发射波长峰都发生了红移,证明FA与BSA发生了相互作用,FA使BSA周围环境的极性增大,疏水性减小,亲水性增加,BSA蛋白质构象发生变化。最后采用圆二色谱法进行分析,利用软件计算得出该实验相互作用体系下α-螺旋（α-Helix）减少2.3％、β-折叠（β-sheet）增加7.7％、β-转角（β-Turn）增加0.6％和无规则结构（Random coil）含量减少1.2％,β-折叠（β-sheet）含量增加最为明显, 强有力地说明了FA使BSA结构发生了改变。     

Interaction of aconitine with bovine serum albumin and effect of atropine sulphate and glycyrrhizic acid on the binding

The interaction of aconitine with bovine serum albumin (BSA) and effect of atropine sulphate and glycyrrhizic acid on binding constant, binding sites, and conformation were studied in an aqueous buffer solution (pH 7.40) by ultraviolet absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The study results show that aconitine quenched the endogenous fluorescence of BSA via a dynamic quenching procedure. Predominant intermolecular forces between aconitine and BSA were hydrophobic interactions, which stabilized the complex of aconitine–BSA. The distance between the donor and acceptor was 2.62 nm. The conformation of BSA was investigated by synchronous fluorescence techniques, indicating that the microenvironment around tryptophan (Trp) residues was changed. Furthermore, with the addition of atropine sulphate or glycyrrhizic acid, binding constant and the number of binding sites of aconitine to BSA were decreased, and the conformation had no change, which provide an important theoretical support for aconitine detoxification by atropine sulphate and glycyrrhizic acid.     

Origin of Fluorescence Lifetimes in Human Serum Albumin. Studies on Native and Denatured Protein

Human serum albumin consists of a single polypeptide of 585 amino acid residues with 1 Trp residue. In the present work, we measured fluorescence lifetimes of the protein in both native and denatured states. The results indicate that Trp emission occurs with three lifetimes in both states. Lifetimes values and contribution to the global emission decay differ between the two states. Data are interpreted as the results of an emission occurring from three substructures of the tryptophan formed in the excited state. Two of these substructures are already present for the tryptophan free in solution. The third lifetime is the result of the interaction between the tryptophan residue and surrounding microenvironment. The populations of these substructures characterized by the pre-exponential parameters of the fluorescence lifetimes are dependent on the fluorophore microenvironment and on the global protein structure.     

山姜素与人血清白蛋白相互作用的荧光光谱法研究

利用荧光光谱法和紫外-可见光谱法研究了山姜素与人血清白蛋白(HSA)之间的相互作用。证实了山姜素对HSA的荧光猝灭为动态猝灭过程,并测定了不同温度下的猝灭常数; 根据Fōrster非辐射能量转移理论,计算出山姜素在蛋白质中的结合位置与色氨酸残基间的距离为4.05 nm; 由求得的热力学参数,推断了山姜素与HSA之间主要靠疏水作用力结合;用三维荧光光谱及同步荧光光谱技术探讨了山姜素对HSA构象的影响。     

Photophysical Studies on the Interaction of Acridinedione Dyes with Universal Protein Denaturant: Guanidine Hydrochloride

Photophysical studies of photoinduced electron transfer (PET) and non-PET based acridinedione dyes with guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) were carried out in water and methanol. Addition of GuHCl to photoinduced electron transfer (PET) based acridinedione dye (ADR 1) results in a fluorescence enhancement, whereas a non-PET based dye (ADR 2) shows no significant change in the fluorescence intensity and lifetime. Addition of GuHCl to ADR 1 dye in methanol results in single exponential decay behaviour, on the contrary a biexponential decay pattern was observed on the addition of GuHCl in water. Absorption and emission spectral studies of ADR 1 dye interaction with GuHCl reveals that the dye molecule is not in the protonated form in aqueous GuHCl solution, and the dye is confined to two distinguishable microenvironment in the aqueous phase. A large variation in the microenvironment around the dye molecule is created on the addition of GuHCl and this was ascertained by time-resolved area normalized emission spectroscopy (TRANES) and time-resolved emission spectroscopy (TRES). The dye molecule prefers to reside in the hydrophobic microenvironment, rather in the hydrophilic aqueous phase is well emphasized by time-resolved fluorescence lifetime studies. The mechanism of fluorescence enhancement of ADR 1 dye by GuHCl is attributed to the suppression of the PET process occuring through space.     

Energy transfer dynamics in B-phycoerythrin from the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

The B-phycoerythrin hexamer (αβ)₆γ of Porphyridium purpureum was isolated and purified. The absorption, circular dichroism, fluorescence and ultrafast time-resolved spectra were obtained. The results showed a double absorption peak at 545 nm and 565 nm and a shoulder peak at 498 nm, and fluorescence emission maxima at 580 nm and 620 nm were observed. The circular dichroism spectra in the near-ultraviolet region were obtained and resolved for the first time, which showed that the two peaks at 260 nm and 305 nm were considered to be correlated to phenylalanine (Phe) and tryptophan (Trp) in a conservative hydrophobic microenvironment, respectively. The circular dichroism spectra in the visible region showed that PEB139α/PEB158β and PEB82α/PEB82β existed as two exciton-coupled bilin pairs. Energy transfer within the exciton-coupled pairs was by exciton splitting, while between the exciton-coupled pairs was by Förster resonance. From the studies of the energy transfer dynamics by ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, it was confirmed that the energy transfer of the B-PE hexamer had three time components of 8 ps, 60 ps, and 1200 ps. In addition, the internal energy transfer pathways of B-phycoerythrin hexamer were identified by deconvoluting the fluorescence decay curve at different detection wavelengths.     

应用FTIR研究超声对牛血清白蛋白二级结构的影响

应用傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)结合荧光光谱研究了牛血清白蛋白(BSA)在超声作用下的结构变化。荧光光谱表明,超声作用使BSA溶液荧光光谱最大发射峰发生了蓝移,表明超声改变了BSA中色氨酸(Trp)残基环境;荧光强度的降低表明超声改变了蛋白质分子的构象,具有荧光猝灭效应。采用对BSA红外光谱酰胺Ⅰ带进行曲线拟合的方法,定量分析了不同超声功率、时间对BSA二级结构的影响,发现超声作用对BSA中的α-螺旋、β-折叠、β-转角及无规卷曲的相对含量有不同程度的影响;超声作用具有使BSA的二级结构由α-螺旋向β-折叠、β-转角转化的趋势,而无规则卷曲含量则基本不受超声影响而保持相对稳定。     

Interaction of Moxifloxacin with Bovine Hemoglobin and Effect of the Coexistent Drugs on the Reaction

The interaction between moxifloxacin (MXFX) and Bovine Hemoglobin (BHb) was investigated at different temperatures by fluorescence spectroscopy. Results showed that the quenching mechanism of MXFX on BHb was a static quenching process with Förester spectroscopy energy transfer. The primary binding for MXFX was located at β-37 Tryptophan residue in hydrophobic cavity of BHb. Besides, weak negative cooperativity was found in drug's binding with BHb. Synchronous spectra revealed that the microenvironment and the conformation of serum albumin were changed during the reaction. Most antibiotics had no effect on the system of BHb-MXFX, except quinolone antibiotics. The system had good stability.     

动态高压微射流技术对木瓜蛋白酶活性的影响(英文)

研究了动态高压微射流技术对木瓜蛋白酶活性的影响,并以荧光光谱为检测手段对木瓜蛋白酶的分子构象进行表征。结果显示,动态高压微射流处理(120~180 MPa)后,木瓜蛋白酶酶活降低。经180 MPa处理1次,木瓜蛋白酶相对酶活降至90.04%。随着处理压力的增加,木瓜蛋白酶分子、酪氨酸残基、色氨酸残基的荧光发射峰位置分别从对照组的334、285、277.5 nm红移至140 MPa处理组的335.5、285.5、278.5 nm,然后回移至180 MPa处理组的334、285、278 nm。在0~4℃放置24 h后,酶活进一步降低,木瓜蛋白酶和酪氨酸残基的荧光强度出现波动(降低、上升然后再降低),表明动态高压微射流处理(120~180 MPa)改变木瓜蛋白酶分子构象的效果较为明显,形成的新构象稳定性低。     

烟草中CuZnSODⅢ的荧光光谱及pH值和H2O2敏感性

考察了烟草中CuZnSODⅢ在不同pH值和H2O2加入量前后的荧光光谱。用同步荧光技术区分蛋白质分子中酪氨酸和色氨酸残基的荧光,进一步结合荧光猝灭现象和三维荧光特征,探讨发色团微环境及蛋白质分子构象行为,推断得出H2O2对荧光的猝灭属于氧化还原猝灭和双分子碰撞猝灭双重机制,及色氨酸残基对pH值和H2O2更为敏感的结论。     

头孢呋辛酯与牛血清白蛋白相互作用特征研究

采用荧光光谱、三维荧光光谱、同步荧光光谱和紫外吸收光谱法,研究了不同温度下头孢呋辛酯（CFA）的浓度在1.959×10-6至13.71×10-6 mol·L-1范围内,牛血清白蛋白(BSA)的浓度为2.0×10-6 mol·L-1时两者之间的相互作用,按照Sterm-Volmer方程、Lineweaver-Burk方程和热力学方程分析和处理实验数据,计算了表观作用常数（K_LB: 3.907×106 L·mol-1）,热力学参数的平均值（焓变ΔH：-13.43 kJ·mol-1,熵变ΔS：81.90 J·K-1和标准吉布斯自由能变化ΔGθ：-38.34 kJ·mol-1）,测定了作用位点数（n: 1.042）,讨论了CFA对BSA的荧光猝灭作用机理。BSA和CFA作用可能形成了一种新的复合物,猝灭作用主要属于静态猝灭。认可热力学参数ΔH≈0, ΔS＞0和ΔGθ＜0,反应力主要是熵驱动力和静电作用力。在同步荧光光谱中色氨酸和酪氨酸的峰波长明显红移;在三维荧光光谱中,在加入CFA后二峰的发射波长蓝移;在紫外-可见吸收光谱图中,三体系的最大吸收明显不同,这些均显现色氨酸和酪氨酸所处的微环境的变化,同时说明了加入CFA后BSA的构象发生了变化。这为讨论BSA的构象变化,阐明CFA的药理作用和在生物体内的生物学效应等提供重要信息。     

光谱法研究水溶性羧基化碳纳米管与人血清白蛋白的相互作用

纳米材料与蛋白质等生物大分子的相互作用是纳米材料生物效应和安全性研究的重要基础。本实验利用荧光光谱、同步荧光光谱、圆二色谱(CD)等方法研究了四种结构特性不同的水溶性羧基化碳纳米管(long-SWCNTs-COOH,short-SWCNTs-COOH,DWCNTs-COOH,MWCNTs-COOH)与人血清白蛋白(human serum albumin, HSA)的相互作用。实验结果显示：四种水溶性羧基碳纳米管均能猝灭HSA的内源荧光,但猝灭能力有所不同,相同浓度下不同水溶性羧基化碳纳米管对HSA的荧光猝灭作用遵循如下规律：DWCNTs-COOH＜MWCNTs-COOH＜long-SWCTs-COOH＜short-SWCNTs-COOH;四种碳纳米管对HSA的同步荧光光谱影响表明,MWCNTs-COOH的作用位点更靠近色氨酸(Trp)残基,而DWCNTs-COOH的作用位点更靠近酪氨酸(Tyr)残基,而long-SWCNTs-COOH和short-SWCNTs-COOH对两种氨基酸残基的作用无明显差别;在碳纳米管作用下,HSA 的圆二色谱有微弱的变化,且与α-螺旋、β-折叠含量变化基本一致。结果表明,不同碳纳米管对HSA的荧光猝灭能力与它们的结构特性有关,两者作用过程中HSA构象基本不变,二级结构有微小变化,但无明显的剂量-效应关系。根据实验结果对可能的作用机制进行了讨论。     

硫堇与DNA分子作用机理的光谱研究

用紫外-可见吸收光谱、荧光光谱、圆二色谱和光电子能谱等光谱方法研究了硫堇(TH)与小牛胸腺DNA(CT-DNA)的作用机理。实验结果表明,在pH 7.2的磷酸盐缓冲溶液中, TH与CT-DNA之间的作用方式以嵌入作用为主,嵌入作用使TH的紫外最大吸收峰强度减小,且峰位发生红移。由紫外光谱实验结果线性拟合求得TH与CT-DNA的表观结合常数K＝1.45×104 L·mol-1。荧光光谱实验结果表明：TH与CT-DNA的嵌入作用使TH的荧光发生强烈猝灭,猝灭常数K_SV为1.01×104 L·mol-1。嵌入作用位点主要发生在CT-DNA的鸟嘌呤(G)-胞嘧啶(C)碱基序列富集区。通过对TH的光电子能谱中N,S原子的结合能变化分析,TH分子以杂环上S原子端与CT-DNA的G-C碱基对结合,两者的相互作用对CT-DNA的二级结构构象产生影响。