| Abstract: | The interactions between ciprofloxacin and hemocyanin were investigated by ultraviolet-vis absorbance, circular dichroism, and fluorescence spectra techniques. The ciprofloxacin effectively quenched the intrinsic fluorescence of hemocyanin via static quenching. There is only one class of binding site at the interface of hemocyanin. The hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions played a major role in the binding process of ciprofloxacin-hemocyanin system. The distance between the tryptophan residues and ciprofloxacin was calculated using F?rster theory to be 3.859 nm. The alteration of the environment of tryptophan residues and the secondary protein structure in the presence of the ciprofloxacin was confirmed by circular dichroism, synchronous, and three-dimensional fluorescence spectra. |
