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Huang H, Wei H, Zou M, Xu X, Xia B, Liu F, Li N. Modulating fluorescence anisotropy of terminally labeled double-stranded DNA via the interaction between dye and nucleotides for rational design of DNA recognition based applications. Anal Chem 2015; 87:2748-54. [PMID: 25671552 DOI: 10.1021/ac504028n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
Effective signal enhancement for fluorescence anisotropy in a simple manner is most desirable for fluorescence anisotropy method development. This work aimed to provide insights into the fluorescence anisotropy of terminally labeled double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) to facilitate a facile and universal design strategy for DNA recognition based applications. We demonstrated that fluorescence anisotropy of dsDNA could be regulated by the nature of dyes, the molecular volume, and the end structure of dsDNA. Fluorescence anisotropy ascended with the increased number of base pairs up to 18 bp and leveled off thereafter, indicating the molecular volume was not the only factor responsible for fluorescence anisotropy. By choosing dyes with the positively charged center, high fluorescence anisotropy signal was obtained due to the confinement of the segmental motion of dyes through the electrostatic interaction. By properly designing the end structure of dsDNA, fluorescence anisotropy could be further improved by enlarging the effective overall rotational volume, as supported by two-dimensional (2D) (1)H-(1)H nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (NOESY). With the successful enhancement of the fluorescence anisotropy for terminally labeled dsDNA, simple and universal designs were demonstrated by sensing of major classes of analytes from macromolecules (DNA and protein) to small molecules (cocaine).
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- Hongduan Huang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ‡Beijing NMR Center, and §College of Life Sciences, Peking University , Beijing, 100871, China
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Maggioni D, Fenili F, D’Alfonso L, Donghi D, Panigati M, Zanoni I, Marzi R, Manfredi A, Ferruti P, D’Alfonso G, Ranucci E. Luminescent Rhenium and Ruthenium Complexes of an Amphoteric Poly(amidoamine) Functionalized with 1,10-Phenanthroline. Inorg Chem 2012; 51:12776-88. [DOI: 10.1021/ic301616b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniela Maggioni
- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM), via G. Giusti 9, 50121 Firenze, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie
e Bioscienze, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie
e Bioscienze, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM), via G. Giusti 9, 50121 Firenze, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM), via G. Giusti 9, 50121 Firenze, Italy
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Mari C, Panigati M, D’Alfonso L, Zanoni I, Donghi D, Sironi L, Collini M, Maiorana S, Baldoli C, D’Alfonso G, Licandro E. Luminescent Conjugates between Dinuclear Rhenium Complexes and Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA): Synthesis, Photophysical Characterization, and Cell Uptake. Organometallics 2012. [DOI: 10.1021/om3004515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Cristina Mari
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università di Milano-Bicocca,
piazza della Scienza 2, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano,
Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, CNR, Via C. Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano,
Italy
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Raimondi A, Panigati M, Maggioni D, D’Alfonso L, Mercandelli P, Mussini P, D’Alfonso G. Electrochemical, Computational, and Photophysical Characterization of New Luminescent Dirhenium–Pyridazine Complexes Containing Bridging OR or SR Anions. Inorg Chem 2012; 51:2966-75. [PMID: 22360569 DOI: 10.1021/ic202284a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Alessio Raimondi
- Department of Inorganic,
Metallorganic
and Analytical Chemistry “Lamberto Malatesta”, Università
degli Studi di Milano, and UdR INSTM of Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133
Milano, Italy
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- Department of Inorganic,
Metallorganic
and Analytical Chemistry “Lamberto Malatesta”, Università
degli Studi di Milano, and UdR INSTM of Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133
Milano, Italy
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- Department of Inorganic,
Metallorganic
and Analytical Chemistry “Lamberto Malatesta”, Università
degli Studi di Milano, and UdR INSTM of Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133
Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Università
di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department
of Structural Chemistry
and Inorganic Stereochemistry, Università degli Studi di Milano,
Via Venezian 21, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physical Chemistry
and Electrochemistry, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via
Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Inorganic,
Metallorganic
and Analytical Chemistry “Lamberto Malatesta”, Università
degli Studi di Milano, and UdR INSTM of Milano, Via Venezian 21, 20133
Milano, Italy
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Bosisio C, Quercioli V, Chirico G, D'Alfonso L, Bettati S, Raboni S, Campanini B, Collini M. Effect of the point mutation H148G on GFPmut2 unfolding kinetics by fluorescence spectroscopy. Biophys Chem 2011; 157:24-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2011.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2011] [Revised: 04/04/2011] [Accepted: 04/04/2011] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Barone F, Lankas F, Spackova N, Sponer J, Karran P, Bignami M, Mazzei F. Structural and dynamic effects of single 7-hydro-8-oxoguanine bases located in a frameshift target DNA sequence. Biophys Chem 2006; 118:31-41. [PMID: 16039038 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2005.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2005] [Revised: 06/07/2005] [Accepted: 06/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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DNA 7-hydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) is implicated in frameshift formation in an G(6) sequence of the HPRT gene in mismatch repair (MMR) defective cells. Using oligonucleotides based on this frameshift hotspot, we investigated how a single 8-oxoG modified the structural and dynamic properties of the G(6) tract. A 30 ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulation indicated compression of the minor groove in the immediate vicinity of the lesion. Fluorescence polarization anisotropy (FPA) and MD demonstrated that 8-oxoG increases DNA torsional rigidity and also constrains the movement of the single-stranded region at the single/double stranded DNA junction of model DNA replication template/primer. These constraints influenced the efficiency of primer extension by Klenow (exo(-)) DNA polymerase.
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- Flavia Barone
- Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Roma, Rome, Italy
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Fujimoto BS, Schurr JM. Can reliable torsion elastic constants be determined from FPA data on 24 and 27 base-pair DNAs? Biophys Chem 2005; 116:41-55. [PMID: 15911081 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2005.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2004] [Revised: 02/01/2005] [Accepted: 02/01/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Torsion elastic constants obtained from fluorescence polarization anisotropy (FPA) measurements on fifty-three 24 and 27 base-pair (bp) DNAs were recently reported [F. Pedone, F. Mazzei, D. Santoni, Sequence-dependent DNA torsional rigidity: a tetranucleotide code, Biophys. Chem. 112 (2004) 77-88; F. Pedone, F. Mazzei, M. Matzeu, F. Barone, Torsional constant of 27-mer DNA oligomers of different sequences, Biophys. Chem. 94 (2001) 175-184]. The problem of extracting reliable torsion elastic constants (alpha) from FPA measurements on such short DNAs is examined in detail. The difficulty is illustrated by two (fictitious) 24 bp DNAs with approximately 5-fold different torsion elastic constants and 10% different initial anisotropies (r(0)), which exhibit practically indistinguishable anisotropy decays for all t>1 ns. FPA data were simulated for 24 bp DNAs with different input values of alpha and r(0) in the presence and absence of Poisson noise, and were fitted using different choices of the adjustable and fixed parameters. Experimental data for a 24 bp DNA were fitted in a similar manner. For either the simulated or experimental FPA data, it was not possible to determine both the initial anisotropy, r(0), and the torsion elastic constant, alpha, in a reliable (i.e. statistically significant) manner in the presence of Poisson noise. When r(0) is assumed to be fixed at any particular value in the fitting protocol, a unique best-fit value of alpha is obtained, but that best-fit alpha is extremely sensitive to small deviations of the assumed fixed value of r(0) away from the input r(0)-value of the simulated data. Pedone et al. fitted their FPA data by assuming that r(0)=0.360, and adjusting alpha, the hydrodynamic radius (R(H)), and effective length (L). In fact, the reported best-fit values of R(H) and L lay significantly outside their expected ranges. When this same fitting protocol is applied to simulated data for 27 bp DNAs, better overall agreement with the reported experimental values (alpha, R(H), and L) is obtained for a model, wherein all DNAs have the same typical input alpha=5.9 x 10(-12) dyn cm, R(H)=10.0 A, and L=27 (3.4)+2.7=94.5 A, but a 1.00- to 1.13-fold range of r(0)-values, than for the model of Pedone et al., wherein all DNAs have the same input r(0)=0.360, R(H)=10.0 A, and L=94.5 A, but a approximately 3-fold range of alpha-values. It is concluded that, in the absence of reliable independent estimates of r(0) for every DNA, the alpha-values reported for 24 and 27 bp DNAs cannot be regarded as experimentally justified. The reliability of the torsion elastic constants reported for the 136 distinct tetranucleotide steps, which are inferred from the values reported for the fifty-three 24 and 27 bp DNAs, is also briefly discussed.
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- Bryant S Fujimoto
- Department of Chemistry, Box 351700, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA
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Pedone F, Mazzei F, Santoni D. Sequence-dependent DNA torsional rigidity: a tetranucleotide code. Biophys Chem 2004; 112:77-88. [PMID: 15501578 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2004.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2004] [Revised: 07/06/2004] [Accepted: 07/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Using fluorescence polarization anisotropy (FPA), we measured the torsional constant of various DNA oligomers in different sequences and calculated the value for each of the 136 unique tetranucleotides. From these values, we obtained a "rigidity profile" for every double-stranded DNA sequence. We tested the code in the analysis of DNA sequences able to form nucleosomes. More than 50% of the sequences studied showed a common 20 and/or 30 bp modulation of the torsional constant. Many other profiles of rigidity were observed in the remaining sequences and this variety in torsional constant modulation may be related to functional differences between nucleosomes.
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- Francesco Pedone
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
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Nicastro G, Margiocco P, Cardinali B, Stagnaro P, Cauglia F, Cuniberti C, Collini M, Thomas D, Pastore A, Rocco M. The role of unstructured extensions in the rotational diffusion properties of a globular protein: the example of the titin i27 module. Biophys J 2004; 87:1227-40. [PMID: 15298925 PMCID: PMC1304461 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.040931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2004] [Accepted: 05/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The possibility of predicting the overall shape of a macromolecule in solution from its diffusional properties has gained increasing importance in the structural genomic era. Here we explore and quantify the influence that unstructured and flexible regions have on the motions of a globular protein, a situation that can occur from the presence of such regions in the natural sequence or from additional tags. I27, an immunoglobulin-like module from the muscle protein titin, whose structure and properties are well characterized, was selected for our studies. The backbone dynamics and the overall tumbling of three different constructs of I27 were investigated using (15)N NMR relaxation collected at two (15)N frequencies (60.8 and 81.1 MHz) and fluorescence depolarization spectroscopy after labeling of a reactive cysteine with an extrinsic fluorophore. Our data show that the presence of disordered tags clearly exerts a frictional drag that increases with the length of the tags, thus affecting the module tumbling in solution. We discuss the use and the limitations of current approaches to hydrodynamic calculations, especially when having to take into account local flexibility.
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Collini M, D'Alfonso L, Baldini G, Oldani A, Cellai L, Giordano C, Barone F, Mazzei F, Chirico G. Fluorescence anisotropy in the frequency domain by an optical microscope. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2004; 58:160-165. [PMID: 15000709 DOI: 10.1366/000370204322842887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Fluorescence anisotropy decay spectroscopy is a suitable tool for investigating the size and the shape of biological molecules. We coupled this technique to an optical microscope in order to reduce the excitation volume and to allow its application to spatially inhomogeneous samples. Phase modulated measurements of the fluorescence anisotropy decay were performed by feeding an intensity modulated linearly polarized laser beam to the epifluorescence port of a microscope. Here we report the test of the dynamic response of the microscope by comparing the lifetime and fluorescence polarization anisotropy decays obtained in cuvettes in a standard phase modulation fluorometer and on tiny drops on the microscope stage. We show that once a correction factor for the objective depolarization is introduced in the best-fit functions for the data analysis of the decays, the results obtained on the two setups are comparable. Some applications are reported here on long DNA tracts as well on short DNA fragments containing structural anomalies.
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- Maddalena Collini
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, Milano 20126 Italy
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Collini M, D'Alfonso L, Molinari H, Ragona L, Catalano M, Baldini G. Competitive binding of fatty acids and the fluorescent probe 1-8-anilinonaphthalene sulfonate to bovine beta-lactoglobulin. Protein Sci 2003; 12:1596-603. [PMID: 12876309 PMCID: PMC2323946 DOI: 10.1110/ps.0304403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The use of spectroscopy in the study of fatty acids binding to bovine beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) appears to be a difficult task, as these acid compounds, assumed as the protein natural ligands, do not exhibit favorable optical response such as, for example, absorption or fluorescence. Therefore, the BLG fatty-acid equilibrium has been tackled by exploiting the competition between fatty acids and ANS, a widely used fluorescent hydrophobic probe, whose binding sites on the protein have been characterized recently. Two lifetime decays of the ANS-BLG complex have been found; the longer one has been attributed to the internal binding site and the shorter one to the external site. At increasing fatty acids concentration, the fractional weight associated with ANS bound to the internal site drops, in agreement with a model describing the competition of the dye with fatty acids, whereas the external site occupancy appears to be unaffected by the fatty acids binding to BLG. This model is supported by docking studies. An estimate of the acid-binding affinities for BLG has been obtained by implementing the fitting of the bound ANS intensities with a competitive binding model. A relevant dependence has been found upon the solution pH, in the range from 6 to 8, which correlates with the calyx accessibility modulated by the conformation of the EF loop. Fatty acids with longer aliphatic chains (palmitate and laurate) are found to display larger affinities for the protein and the interaction free energy nicely correlates with the number of contacts inside the protein calyx, in agreement with docking simulations.
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- Maddalena Collini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milan, Italy
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D'Alfonso L, Collini M, Baldini G. Trehalose influence on beta-lactoglobulin stability and hydration by time resolved fluorescence. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 270:2497-504. [PMID: 12755705 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03621.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The stabilizing role of the disaccharide trehalose on beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) against its chemical denaturation both at native and acidic pH has been explored by means of time-resolved fluorescence of the probe acrylodan covalently bound to the unique free cysteine of BLG. The changes in acrylodan fluorescence lifetime with guanidinium chloride concentration reveal BLG sigmoidal denaturation profiles which depend upon the amount of trehalose in solution. When adding trehalose the transition midpoint shifts towards higher denaturant concentration. This effect has been measured by fitting the data with a two-state model whose parameters indicate that an almost 60% increase in the denaturation free energy is induced independently of trehalose concentrations and pH values. Fluorescence anisotropy measurements performed in the same conditions reveal that the internal dynamics are largely affected by the sugar, which makes the acrylodan environment more rigid, and by the denaturant that acts in the opposite way. The overall rotational diffusion of BLG suggests that trehalose affects the hydrodynamic properties of the solution in the proximity of the protein; tentative mechanisms are discussed.
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- Laura D'Alfonso
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Milano, Italy
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Pedone F, Mazzei F, Matzeu M, Barone F. Torsional constant of 27-mer DNA oligomers of different sequences. Biophys Chem 2001; 94:175-84. [PMID: 11744198 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(01)00232-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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We have studied the torsional elastic constant (alpha) of short DNA (27mer) oligomers of various sequence by fluorescence polarization anysotropy (FPA) measurements. The lowest alpha values were found in samples with sequence rich in AA dinucleotides or containing the alternating d(A-T) x d(A-T) motif. The torsional rigidity of our DNA samples was compared to that calculated according to the current values of twist angle fluctuations derived for ten dinucleotide steps by recent analyses of DNA crystal structure database. The values of torsional rigidity derived from crystals are higher than our experimental ones, obtained by FPA analysis, suggesting that packing force in crystals may notably hinder the dinucleotide twist angle fluctuations that occur in solution. This behaviour is more evident for samples containing AA, TA and AT steps. In all the samples there is about a twofold change of the alpha value in the 10-40 degrees C range. An activation enthalpy (Delta H (#)) of about 17.4 kJ mol(-1), on average, was obtained for the temperature dependence of eight of the ten samples studied. A correlation with the stacking energy is discussed.
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- F Pedone
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Lakowicz JR, Gryczynski I, Piszczek G, Tolosa L, Nair R, Johnson ML, Nowaczyk K. Microsecond dynamics of biological macromolecules. Methods Enzymol 2001; 323:473-509. [PMID: 10944765 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(00)23379-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- J R Lakowicz
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA
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Collini M, D'Alfonso L, Baldini G. New insight on beta-lactoglobulin binding sites by 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate fluorescence decay. Protein Sci 2000; 9:1968-74. [PMID: 11106170 PMCID: PMC2144464 DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.10.1968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The fluorescence time decay parameters of the beta-lactoglobulin-1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate complex have been investigated under physical and chemical perturbations (2 < pH < 8 and added electrolyte 0 < NaCl < 0.5 M) to obtain new insight on the nature of the protein binding interactions. A double exponential decay of the bound probe lifetime has been confirmed by the presence of a longer component, 11 to 14.5 ns, and a shorter component, 2.5 to 3.5 ns. The two lifetimes are ascribed to different binding modes associated also with different exposure to the solvent; in particular, the longer component is attributed to binding inside the hydrophobic beta barrel, while a "surface" site is suggested for the shorter component. A detailed analysis of the lifetime fractional intensities correlates the binding constants with ionic strength and supports the presence of electrostatic effects at both sites. A Debye-Hückel approach, applied to extrapolate the electrostatic free energy contribution vs. pH at vanishing ionic strength, gives interesting clues on the effective charge felt by the ANS ligands in the proximity of each site. In particular, binding is found to parallel the aspartate and glutamate titrations between pH 3 and pH 4.5; the "surface" site mainly responds to the presence of these local titrating charges while the "internal" site more closely follows the overall protein net charge.
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- M Collini
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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Bielecki L, Skalski B, Zagórowska I, Verrall RE, Adamiak RW. Fluorescent alpha-anomeric 1,N(6)etheno-deoxyadenosine in DNA duplexes. The alpha-epsilondA / dG pair. NUCLEOSIDES, NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2000; 19:1735-50. [PMID: 11200269 DOI: 10.1080/15257770008045456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Structural properties of the fluorescent alpha-anomeric 1,N(6)ethenodeoxyadenosine residue placed in opposition to all four canonical deoxynucleotide units within 11-mer DNA duplexes have been studied. The duplex with alpha-epsilondA / dG pairing is most thermodynamically stable while the alpha-epsilondA / dC one is the least stable. Fluorescence measurements confirm the thermodynamic data and indicate base-pair dependent stacking properties of alpha-epsilondA within duplex structures. Results of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in aqueous solution for the most stable duplex point to the presence of different conformational states of the alpha-1,N(6)etheno-deoxyadenosine residue, including formation of a hydrogen bonded pair with the dG and possible occurrence of severe kinking in the duplex.
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- L Bielecki
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznañ
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Wildeson J, Murphy CJ. Intrinsic bending in GGCC tracts as probed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Anal Biochem 2000; 284:99-106. [PMID: 10933862 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2000.4677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Double-stranded oligonucleotides containing the sequence 5'-GGCC-3' can be intrinsically bent, according to X-ray crystallography and gel electrophoresis mobility studies. We have performed fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments with dye-labeled oligonucleotides to further investigate the solution structure of this sequence. We find that 5'-GGCC-3'-containing oligonucleotides bring 5'-attached donor and acceptor dyes much closer together than a comparable "straight" sequence that contains 5'-GCGC-3'. The bend angle for the 5'-GGCC-3' sequence is estimated to be approximately 70 degrees, much larger than the crystallographically observed 23 degrees kink but in agreement with other FRET work. In contrast to gel electrophoresis studies, divalent metal ions do not promote increased kinking in 5'-GGCC-3' above background as judged by FRET. Thus, sequence-dependent structural effects in DNA may be a complicating feature of FRET experiments.
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- J Wildeson
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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Barone F, Cellai L, Matzeu M, Mazzei F, Pedone F. DNA, RNA and hybrid RNA-DNA oligomers of identical sequence: structural and dynamic differences. Biophys Chem 2000; 86:37-47. [PMID: 11011698 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(00)00157-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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A 27-mer sequence was synthesised as DNA duplex (DD), RNA duplex (RR), and RNA-DNA (RD) hybrid in order to characterise their structural and dynamic features. The hydrodynamic radius (Rh) and the rise (b) values of the three samples were consistent with the conformations predicted by CD analysis. The value of the torsional constant (alpha) of the samples containing RNA was approximately twice that of the DD sample and followed the order: DD < RD < RR. The same order was observed in the thermodynamic stability and in the reduction of the electrophoretic mobility. gamma-Ray footprinting analysis was carried out to resolve the individual strand conformation in the hybrid. The RNA strand preserved its conformation, while the DNA strand showed local deformations mainly at TA and TG steps.
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- F Barone
- Laboratorio di Fisica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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D'Alfonso L, Collini M, Baldini G. Evidence of heterogeneous 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate binding to beta-lactoglobulin from fluorescence spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1432:194-202. [PMID: 10407141 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(99)00105-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Steady-state and dynamic fluorescence titrations show that: (a) the complex between beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) and 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (ANS) displays a heterogeneous equilibrium with large changes in the binding strength vs. pH and ion concentration; and (b) the fluorescence response of bound ANS reveals two separate lifetimes that suggest two different sites (or binding modes). While steady-state fluorescence titrations yield effective values of the binding constant and of the bound ANS quantum efficiency, it is shown that, by combining steady-state fluorescence and lifetime decay of ANS, it is possible to give quantitative estimates of the association constants for each site. When heading from the acid (pH approximately 2) to the native state (pH approximately 6) the main result is a very large reduction of the effective binding constant. This and the results of titrations vs. ionic strength suggest that electrostatic interactions are a major contribution to ANS binding to BLG.
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- L D'Alfonso
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Università di Milano-Bicocca, via Celoria 16 I-20133, Milan, Italy
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Barone F, Matzeu M, Mazzei F, Pedone F. Structural and dynamical properties of two DNA oligomers with the same base composition and different sequence. Biophys Chem 1999; 78:259-69. [PMID: 10343390 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(99)00026-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We compared the structural and dynamical properties of two DNA fragments, 27 bp long, having the same base composition but a different sequence. This work aims to understand how the base sequence on a purine rich strand in a double helix, which is important for many biological functions, is related to structural features and to measurable physical quantities. Structural characterization of the two samples was performed both by conventional spectroscopic methods (circular dichroism and UV denaturation experiments) and by means of a gamma-ray footprinting technique which gives information on fine conformational differences. Dynamical features of the samples were studied by fluorescence polarization anisotropy (FPA) measurements which allow the evaluation of some hydrodynamic parameters, such as the hydrodynamic radius and the elastic torsion constant of DNA. Using a gamma-ray footprinting technique, we observed that the interruption of the long homopurine-homopyrimidine run in the control sample, due to the 'scrambling' operation, alters the DNA three-dimensional structure, also at nucleotide level. Besides, an increase in thermal stability and in the torsional rigidity of the 'scrambled' sample was observed. A possible association between base-stacking interaction and torsional rigidity was inferred from the comparison of the two samples.
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- F Barone
- Laboratorio di Fisica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy
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Gryczynski I, Gryczynski Z, Lakowicz JR, Yang D, Burke TG. Fluorescence Spectral Properties of the Anticancer Drug Topotecan by Steady-State and Frequency Domain Fluorometry with One-Photon and Multi-Photon Excitation. Photochem Photobiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb03307.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Brauns EB, Murphy CJ, Berg MA. Local Dynamics in DNA by Temperature-Dependent Stokes Shifts of an Intercalated Dye. J Am Chem Soc 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/ja973207+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Collini M, Chirico G, Baldini G, Bianchi ME. Enhanced Flexibility of a Bulged DNA Fragment from Fluorescence Anisotropy and Brownian Dynamics. Macromolecules 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/ma971136t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Maddalena Collini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16, Milano 20133, Italy, and DIBIT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano 20132, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16, Milano 20133, Italy, and DIBIT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano 20132, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16, Milano 20133, Italy, and DIBIT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano 20132, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16, Milano 20133, Italy, and DIBIT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano 20132, Italy
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Cupane A, Bologna C, Rizzo O, Vitrano E, Cordone L. Local dynamics of DNA probed with optical absorption spectroscopy of bound ethidium bromide. Biophys J 1997; 73:959-65. [PMID: 9251812 PMCID: PMC1180992 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78128-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We have studied the local dynamics of calf thymus double-helical DNA by means of an "optical labeling" technique. The study has been performed by measuring the visible absorption band of the cationic dye ethidium bromide, both free in solution and bound to DNA, in the temperature interval 360-30 K and in two different solvent conditions. The temperature dependence of the absorption line shape has been analyzed within the framework of the vibronic coupling theory, to extract information on the dynamic properties of the system; comparison of the thermal behavior of the absorption band of free and DNA-bound ethidium bromide gave information on the local dynamics of the double helix in the proximity of the chromophore. For the dye free in solution, large spectral heterogeneity and coupling to a "bath" of low-frequency (soft) modes is observed; moreover, anharmonic motions become evident at suitably high temperatures. The average frequency of the soft modes and the amplitude of anharmonic motions depend upon solvent composition. For the DNA-bound dye, at low temperatures, heterogeneity is decreased, the average frequency of the soft modes is increased, and anharmonic motions are hindered. However, a new dynamic regime characterized by a large increase in anharmonic motions is observed at temperatures higher than approximately 280 K. The DNA double helix therefore appears to provide, at low temperatures, a rather rigid environment for the bound chromophore, in which conformational heterogeneity is reduced and low-frequency motions (both harmonic vibrations and anharmonic contributions) are hindered. The system becomes anharmonic at approximately 180 K; however, above approximately 280 K, anharmonicity starts to increase much more rapidly than for the dye free in solution; this can be attributed to the onset of wobbling of the dye in its intercalation site, which is likely connected with the onset of (functionally relevant) DNA motions, involving local opening/unwinding of the double helix. As shown by parallel measurements of the melting curves, these motions precede the melting of the double helix and depend upon solvent composition much more than does the melting itself.
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- A Cupane
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Palermo, Italy.
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The recently presented Brownian dynamics model for superhelical DNA is extended to include local curvature of the DNA helix axis. Here we analyze the effect of a permanent bend on the structure and dynamics of an 1870-bp superhelix with delta Lk = -10. Furthermore, we define quantitative expressions for computing structural parameters such as loop positions, superhelix diameter, and plectonemic content for trajectories of superhelical DNA, and assess the convergence toward global equilibrium. The structural fluctuations in an interwound superhelix, as reflected in the change in end loop positions, seem to occur by destruction/creation of loops rather than by a sliding motion of the DNA around its contour. Their time scale is on the order of 30-100 microseconds. A permanent bend changes the structure and the internal motions of the DNA drastically. The position of the end loop is fixed at the permanent bend, and the local motions of the chain are enhanced near the loops. A displacement of the bend from the end loop to a position inside the plectonemic part of the superhelix results in the formation of a new loop and the disappearance of the old one; we estimate the time involved in this process to be about 0.5 ms.
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- G Chirico
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Chirico G, Baldini G. Rotational diffusion and internal motions of circular DNA. I. Polarized photon correlation spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 1996. [DOI: 10.1063/1.471332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Collini M, Chirico G, Baldini G. Diffusional spinning as a probe of DNA fragments conformation. J Chem Phys 1996. [DOI: 10.1063/1.471304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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