Structure of molecular associates of fluorescent probes in solutions of human serum albumin

Spectral-luminescent characteristics and molecular association processes in solutions of human serum albumin are analyzed at different pH values for three fluorescent probes (eosin, erythrosin, and fluorescein). Common features for all three probes in protein solutions are quenching of the fluorescence, a red shift of the fluorescence maximum, a decrease in the degree of association, and an increase in the angle between dipole moments of dye molecules in dimers. This being so, differences between fluorescein and its halogen derivatives (eosin and erythrosin) are observed in the pH dependences of fluorescence, degree of association, and the angle between dipole moments of probe molecules in dimers. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 782–787, November–December, 2008.