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Feng RR, Wang M, Zhang W, Gai F. Unnatural Amino Acids for Biological Spectroscopy and Microscopy. Chem Rev 2024; 124:6501-6542. [PMID: 38722769 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
Abstract
Due to advances in methods for site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) into proteins, a large number of UAAs with tailored chemical and/or physical properties have been developed and used in a wide array of biological applications. In particular, UAAs with specific spectroscopic characteristics can be used as external reporters to produce additional signals, hence increasing the information content obtainable in protein spectroscopic and/or imaging measurements. In this Review, we summarize the progress in the past two decades in the development of such UAAs and their applications in biological spectroscopy and microscopy, with a focus on UAAs that can be used as site-specific vibrational, fluorescence, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes. Wherever applicable, we also discuss future directions.
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- Ran-Ran Feng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Lu M, Toptygin D, Xiang Y, Shi Y, Schwieters CD, Lipinski EC, Ahn J, Byeon IJL, Gronenborn AM. The Magic of Linking Rings: Discovery of a Unique Photoinduced Fluorescent Protein Crosslink. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:10809-10816. [PMID: 35574633 PMCID: PMC9233106 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Fluorosubstituted tryptophans serve
as valuable probes for fluorescence
and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of proteins. Here, we
describe an unusual photoreactivity introduced by replacing the single
tryptophan in cyclophilin A with 7-fluoro-tryptophan. UV exposure
at 282 nm defluorinates 7-fluoro-tryptophan and crosslinks it to a
nearby phenylalanine, generating a bright fluorophore. The crosslink-containing
fluorescent protein possesses a large quantum yield of ∼0.40
with a fluorescence lifetime of 2.38 ns. The chemical nature of the
crosslink and the three-dimensional protein structure were determined
by mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. To the best of our knowledge,
this is the first report of a Phe–Trp crosslink in a protein.
Our finding may break new ground for developing novel fluorescence
probes and for devising new strategies to exploit aromatic crosslinks
in proteins.
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- Manman Lu
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Computational Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Core, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, United States
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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Ohler A, Long H, Ohgo K, Tyson K, Murray D, Davis A, Whittington C, Hvastkovs EG, Duffy L, Haddy A, Sargent AL, Allen WE, Offenbacher AR. Synthesis of redox-active fluorinated 5-hydroxytryptophans as molecular reporters for biological electron transfer. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:3107-3110. [PMID: 33626126 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc00187f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fluorinated 5-hydroxytryptophans (Fn-5HOWs) were synthesized in gram scale quantities and incorporated into a β-hairpin peptide and the protein azurin. The redox-active Fn-5HOWs exhibit unique radical spectroscopic signatures that expand the function of as probes for biological electron transfer.
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- Amanda Ohler
- Department of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
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Ramarathinam SH, Gras S, Alcantara S, Yeung AWS, Mifsud NA, Sonza S, Illing PT, Glaros EN, Center RJ, Thomas SR, Kent SJ, Ternette N, Purcell DFJ, Rossjohn J, Purcell AW. Identification of Native and Posttranslationally Modified HLA-B*57:01-Restricted HIV Envelope Derived Epitopes Using Immunoproteomics. Proteomics 2018; 18:e1700253. [PMID: 29437277 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201700253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 01/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
The recognition of pathogen-derived peptides by T lymphocytes is the cornerstone of adaptive immunity, whereby intracellular antigens are degraded in the cytosol and short peptides assemble with class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules in the ER. These peptide-HLA complexes egress to the cell surface and are scrutinized by cytotoxic CD8+ T-cells leading to the eradication of the infected cell. Here, naturally presented HLA-B*57:01 bound peptides derived from the envelope protein of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIVenv) are identified. HIVenv peptides are present at a very small percentage of the overall HLA-B*57:01 peptidome (<0.1%) and both native and posttranslationally modified forms of two distinct HIV peptides are identified. Notably, a peptide bearing a natively encoded C-terminal tryptophan residue is also present in a modified form containing a kynurenine residue. Kynurenine is a major product of tryptophan catabolism and is abundant during inflammation and infection. Binding of these peptides at a molecular level and their immunogenicity in preliminary functional studies are examined. Modest immune responses are observed to the modified HIVenv peptide, highlighting a potential role for kynurenine-modified peptides in the immune response to HIV and other viral infections.
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- Sri H Ramarathinam
- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Mechanisms of Disease and Translational Medicine, Department of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- Mechanisms of Disease and Translational Medicine, Department of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.,Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Mechanisms of Disease and Translational Medicine, Department of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.,Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- The Jenner Institute, Target Discovery Institute Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.,Institute of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
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- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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Biosynthetic incorporation of the azulene moiety in proteins with high efficiency. Amino Acids 2014; 47:213-6. [PMID: 25399056 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-014-1870-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Biosynthetic incorporation of β-(1-azulenyl)-L-alanine, an isostere of tryptophan, is reported using a tryptophan auxotroph expression host. The azulene moiety introduced this way in proteins features many attractive spectroscopic properties, particularly suitable for in vivo studies.
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Blake HL, Robinson D. QM/MM studies of contemporary and novel membrane raft fluorescent probes. Molecules 2014; 19:10230-41. [PMID: 25029071 PMCID: PMC6271554 DOI: 10.3390/molecules190710230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2014] [Revised: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 07/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We have studied a number of contemporary and novel membrane probes, selected for their structural similarity to membrane raft components, in order to properly anchor themselves within a sphingolipid/cholesterol rich region. A QM/MM approach was adopted in order to understand the structural and electrostatic influences of fluorescence emission shifts of the probes in different lipid and solvation environments. The proposed modifications to the membrane probes have shown encouraging data relating not only to emission shifts within the membrane, but also their ability to anchor within a membrane raft domain and the stability to internalization within a membrane system.
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- Hannah L Blake
- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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An amino acid depleted cell-free protein synthesis system for the incorporation of non-canonical amino acid analogs into proteins. J Biotechnol 2014; 178:12-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2013] [Revised: 02/08/2014] [Accepted: 02/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Speight LC, Samanta M, Petersson EJ. Minimalist Approaches to Protein Labelling: Getting the Most Fluorescent Bang for Your Steric Buck. Aust J Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1071/ch13554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Fluorescence methods allow one to monitor protein conformational changes, protein–protein associations, and proteolysis in real time, at the single molecule level and in living cells. The information gained in such experiments is a function of the spectroscopic techniques used and the strategic placement of fluorophore labels within the protein structure. There is often a trade-off between size and utility for fluorophores, whereby large size can be disruptive to the protein’s fold or function, but valuable characteristics, such as visible wavelength absorption and emission or brightness, require sizable chromophores. Three major types of fluorophore readouts are commonly used: (1) Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET); (2) photoinduced electron transfer (PET); and (3) environmental sensitivity. This review focuses on those probes small enough to be incorporated into proteins during ribosomal translation, which allows the probes to be placed on the interiors of proteins as they are folded during synthesis. The most broadly useful method for doing so is site-specific unnatural amino acid (UAA) mutagenesis. We discuss the use of UAA probes in applications relying on FRET, PET, and environmental sensitivity. We also briefly review other methods of protein labelling and compare their relative merits to UAA mutagenesis. Finally, we discuss small probes that have thus far been used only in synthetic peptides, but which have unusual value and may be candidates for incorporation using UAA methods.
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Biosynthetic incorporation of Trp analogs in a protein can help in its characterization using fluorescence spectroscopy and other methodologies like NMR and phosphorescence. Here a protocol is presented resulting in the efficient incorporation of Trp analogs in a recombinant protein, using an Escherichia coli Trp auxotroph. An overview of recent developments in the Trp analog incorporation field is also presented.
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- Jaap Broos
- Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry and Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Petrović DM, Hesp BH, Broos J. Emitting State of 5-Hydroxyindole, 5-Hydroxytryptophan, and 5-Hydroxytryptophan Incorporated in Proteins. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:10792-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jp406676j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Dejan M. Petrović
- Laboratory
of Biophysical Chemistry, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology
Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh
4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory
of Biophysical Chemistry, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology
Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Singh-Blom A, Hughes RA, Ellington AD. Residue-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins in vitro and in vivo. Methods Mol Biol 2013; 978:93-114. [PMID: 23423891 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-293-3_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
The incorporation of noncanonical (unnatural) amino acids into proteins offers researchers the ability to augment the biochemical functionality of proteins for a myriad of applications including bioorthogonal conjugation, biophysical and structural studies, and the enhancement or de novo creation of novel enzymatic activities. The augmentation of a protein throughout its coding sequence by global residue-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acid analogs is an attractive technique for studying both the utility of individual chemistries available through unnatural amino acids and the general effects of unnatural amino acid substitution on protein structure and function. Herein we describe protocols to introduce unnatural amino acids into proteins using the Escherichia coli translation system either in vivo or in vitro. Special attention is paid to obtaining high levels of incorporation while maintaining high yields of protein expression.
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- Amrita Singh-Blom
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Robinson D, Besley NA, O’Shea P, Hirst JD. Di-8-ANEPPS Emission Spectra in Phospholipid/Cholesterol Membranes: A Theoretical Study. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:4160-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jp1111372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- David Robinson
- School of Chemistry and ‡School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and ‡School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and ‡School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and ‡School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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Rogers JMG, Lippert LG, Gai F. Non-natural amino acid fluorophores for one- and two-step fluorescence resonance energy transfer applications. Anal Biochem 2010; 399:182-9. [PMID: 20036210 PMCID: PMC2830288 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2009.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2009] [Revised: 12/15/2009] [Accepted: 12/21/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) provides a powerful means to study protein conformational changes. However, the incorporation of an exogenous FRET pair into a protein could lead to undesirable structural perturbations of the native fold. One of the viable strategies to minimizing such perturbations is to use non-natural amino acid-based FRET pairs. Previously, we showed that p-cyanophenylalanine (Phe(CN)) and tryptophan (Trp) constitute such a FRET pair, useful for monitoring protein folding-unfolding transitions. Here we further show that 7-azatryptophan (7AW) and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HW) can also serve as a FRET acceptor to Phe(CN), and the resultant FRET pairs offer certain advantages over Phe(CN)-Trp. For example, the fluorescence spectrum of 7AW is sufficiently separated from that of Phe(CN), making it straightforward to decompose the FRET spectrum into donor and acceptor contributions. Moreover, we show that Phe(CN), Trp, and 7AW can be used together to form a multi-FRET system, allowing more structural information to be extracted from a single FRET experiment. The applicability of these FRET systems is demonstrated in a series of studies where they are employed to monitor the urea-induced unfolding transitions of the villin headpiece subdomain (HP35), a designed betabetaalpha motif (BBA5), and the human Pin1 WW domain.
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- Julie M. G. Rogers
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Robinson D, Besley NA, O’Shea P, Hirst JD. Calculating the Fluorescence of 5-Hydroxytryptophan in Proteins. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:14521-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp9071108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- David Robinson
- School of Chemistry, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University Park, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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Robinson D, Besley NA, Lunt EAM, O’Shea P, Hirst JD. Electronic Structure of 5-Hydroxyindole: From Gas Phase to Explicit Solvation. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:2535-41. [DOI: 10.1021/jp808943d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- David Robinson
- School of Chemistry, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, and Cell Biophysics Group, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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James NG, Byrne SL, Mason AB. Incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan into transferrin and its receptor allows assignment of the pH induced changes in intrinsic fluorescence when iron is released. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2008; 1794:532-40. [PMID: 19103311 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2008] [Revised: 11/11/2008] [Accepted: 11/19/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
Human serum transferrin (hTF) is a bilobal glycoprotein that transports iron to cells. At neutral pH, diferric hTF binds with nM affinity to the transferrin receptor (TFR) on the cell surface. The complex is taken into the cell where, at the acidic pH of the endosome ( approximately pH 5.6), iron is released. Since iron coordination strongly quenches the intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence of hTF, the increase in the fluorescent signal reports the rate constant(s) of iron release. At pH 5.6, the TFR considerably enhances iron release from the C-lobe (with little effect on iron release from the N-lobe). The recombinant soluble TFR is a dimer with 11 tryptophan residues per monomer. In the hTF/TFR complex these residues could contribute to and compromise the readout ascribed to iron release from hTF. We report that compared to Fe(C) hTF alone, the increase in the fluorescent signal from the preformed complex of Fe(C) hTF and the TFR at pH 5.6 is significantly quenched (75%). To dissect the contributions of hTF and the TFR to the change in fluorescence, 5-hydroxytryptophan was incorporated into each using our mammalian expression system. Selective excitation of the samples at 280 or 315 nm shows that the TFR contributes little or nothing to the increase in fluorescence when ferric iron is released from Fe(C) hTF. Quantum yield determinations of TFR, Fe(C) hTF and the Fe(C) hTF/TFR complex strongly support our interpretation of the kinetic data.
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- Nicholas G James
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405-0068, USA
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Brennan JD, Capretta A, Yong K, Gerritsma D, Flora KK, Jones A. Sensitization of Lanthanides by Nonnatural Amino Acids¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)0750117solbna2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Li Y, He W, Liu H, Yao X, Hu Z. Daidzein interaction with human serum albumin studied using optical spectroscopy and molecular modeling methods. J Mol Struct 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.07.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Hartman MCT, Josephson K, Szostak JW. Enzymatic aminoacylation of tRNA with unnatural amino acids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:4356-61. [PMID: 16537388 PMCID: PMC1450175 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509219103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The biochemical flexibility of the cellular translation apparatus offers, in principle, a simple route to the synthesis of drug-like modified peptides and novel biopolymers. However, only approximately 75 unnatural building blocks are known to be fully compatible with enzymatic tRNA acylation and subsequent ribosomal synthesis of modified peptides. Although the translation system can reject substrate analogs at several steps along the pathway to peptide synthesis, much of the specificity resides at the level of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (AARS) enzymes that are responsible for charging tRNAs with amino acids. We have developed an AARS assay based on mass spectrometry that can be used to rapidly identify unnatural monomers that can be enzymatically charged onto tRNA. By using this assay, we have found 59 previously unknown AARS substrates. These include numerous side-chain analogs with useful functional properties. Remarkably, many beta-amino acids, N-methyl amino acids, and alpha,alpha-disubstituted amino acids are also AARS substrates. These previously unidentified AARS substrates will be useful in studies of the specificity of subsequent steps in translation and may significantly expand the number of analogs that can be used for the ribosomal synthesis of modified peptides.
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- Matthew C. T. Hartman
- Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Simches Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Simches Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Simches Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114
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Li Y, He W, Dong Y, Sheng F, Hu Z. Human serum albumin interaction with formononetin studied using fluorescence anisotropy, FT-IR spectroscopy, and molecular modeling methods. Bioorg Med Chem 2006; 14:1431-6. [PMID: 16275106 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2005.09.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2005] [Revised: 09/27/2005] [Accepted: 09/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Interaction of formononetin with a model transport protein, human serum albumin (HSA), has been studied using fluorescence anisotropy, FT-IR spectroscopy, and molecular modeling methods. Upon binding with HSA, the fluorescence spectrum of formononetin exhibits appreciable hypsochromic shift along with an enhancement in the fluorescence intensity. Gradual addition of HSA led to a marked increase in fluorescence anisotropy (r). From the value of fluorescence anisotropy, it is argued that the drug is located in a restricted environment of protein. The binding constant (K approximately 1.6 x 10(5) M(-1)) and the standard free energy change (DeltaG(0) approximately -29.9 kJ/mol) of formononetin-HSA interaction have been calculated according to the relevant fluorescence data. Fourier transform infrared measurements have shown that the secondary structures of the protein have been changed by the interaction of formononetin with HSA. Computational mapping of the possible binding sites of formononetin revealed the molecule to be bound in the large hydrophobic cavity of subdomain IIA.
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- Ying Li
- Department of Chemistry, LanZhou University, GanSu Province, China
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Botchway S, Barba I, Jordan R, Harmston R, Haggie P, Williams SP, Fulton A, Parker A, Brindle K. A novel method for observing proteins in vivo using a small fluorescent label and multiphoton imaging. Biochem J 2006; 390:787-90. [PMID: 15946123 PMCID: PMC1199672 DOI: 10.1042/bj20050648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A novel method for the fluorescence detection of proteins in cells is described in the present study. Proteins are labelled by the selective biosynthetic incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan and the label is detected via selective two-photon excitation of the hydroxyindole and detection of its fluorescence emission at 340 nm. The method is demonstrated in this paper with images of a labelled protein in yeast cells.
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- Stanley W. Botchway
- *Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
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- *Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, U.K
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Dad S, Bisby R, Clark I, Parker A. Identification and reactivity of the triplet excited state of 5-hydroxytryptophan. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2005; 78:245-51. [PMID: 15708522 PMCID: PMC1890304 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2004.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2004] [Revised: 11/22/2004] [Accepted: 11/22/2004] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Both the neurotransmitter serotonin and the unnatural amino acid 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HT), contain the 5-hydroxyindole chromophore. The photochemistry of 5HT is being investigated in relation to the multiphoton excitation of this chromophore to produce a characteristic photoproduct with green fluorescence ('hyperluminescence'). Laser flash photolysis (308 nm) of 5HT in aqueous solution at neutral pH produces both the neutral 5-indoloxyl radical (lambda(max) 400-420 nm) and another transient absorption with lambda(max) 480 nm and lifetime of 2 micros in deaerated solutions. Based on quenching by oxygen and beta-carotene, the species at 480 nm is identified as the triplet excited state of 5HT. In acidic solution a new oxygen-insensitive intermediate with lambda(max) 460 is assigned to the radical cation of 5HT. Time-resolved measurements of luminescence at 1270 nm have shown that the triplet state of 5HT is able to react with oxygen to form singlet excited oxygen (1O2*) with a quantum yield of approximately 0.1. However, 5HT has also been found to be an effective quencher of singlet oxygen with a second order rate constant of 1.3 x 10(8) dm3 mol(-1) s(-1). The results are discussed in the light of recent observations on the multiphoton-excited photochemistry of serotonin.
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- S. Dad
- Biosciences Research Institute, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
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- Biosciences Research Institute, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
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- Lasers for Science Facility, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
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- Lasers for Science Facility, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
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Zhang Z, Alfonta L, Tian F, Bursulaya B, Uryu S, King DS, Schultz PG. Selective incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan into proteins in mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:8882-7. [PMID: 15187228 PMCID: PMC428441 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307029101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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An orthogonal tryptophanyl-transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase (TrpRS)-mutant opal suppressor tRNA(Trp) (mutRNA(UCA)(Trp)) pair was generated for use in mammalian cells. The anticodon loop of the Bacillus subtilis tRNA(Trp) was mutated to UCA, three positions in the D arm were mutated to generate an internal promoter sequence, and the mutRNA(UCA)(Trp) gene was inserted between the 5' and 3' flanking sequences of the tRNA(Trp-1) gene from Arabidopsis to enhance its expression in mammalian cells. In vitro aminoacylation assays and in vivo opal suppression assays showed that B. subtilis TrpRS (BsTrpRS) charges only the cognate mutRNA(UCA)(Trp) and no endogenous mammalian tRNAs. Similarly, the mutRNA(UCA)(Trp) is specifically charged by B. subtilis TrpRS and not by endogenous synthetases in mammalian cells. Site-directed mutagenesis was then used to alter the specificity of BsTrpRS to uniquely charge 5-hydoxy-l-tryptophan. The resulting mutant BsTrpRS-mutRNA(UCA)(Trp) pair allows the efficient and selective incorporation of 5-hydroxy-l-tryptophan into mammalian proteins in response to the codon, TGA. This amino acid can be used as a fluorescence probe and also undergoes electrochemical oxidation in situ to generate an efficient protein crosslinking.
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- Zhiwen Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Broos J, Gabellieri E, Biemans-Oldehinkel E, Strambini GB. Efficient biosynthetic incorporation of tryptophan and indole analogs in an integral membrane protein. Protein Sci 2003; 12:1991-2000. [PMID: 12930998 PMCID: PMC2323996 DOI: 10.1110/ps.03142003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Biosynthetic incorporation of tryptophan (Trp) analogs such as 7-azatryptophan, 5-hydroxytryptophan, and fluorotryptophan into a protein can facilitate its structural analysis by spectroscopic techniques such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, nuclear magnetic resonance, and Fourier transform infrared. Until now, the approach has dealt primarily with soluble proteins. In this article, we demonstrate that four different Trp analogs can be very efficiently incorporated into a membrane protein as demonstrated for the mannitol transporter of Escherichia coli (EII(mtl)). EII(mtl) overexpression was under control of the lambdaP(R) promoter, and the E. coli Trp auxotroph M5219 was used as host. This strain constitutively expresses the heat labile repressor protein of the lambdaP(R) promoter. Together with the presence of the repressor gene on the EII(mtl) plasmid, this resulted in a tightly controlled promoter system, a prerequisite for high Trp analog incorporation. A new method for determining the analog incorporation efficiency is presented that is suitable for membrane proteins. The procedure involves fitting of the phosphorescence spectrum as a linear combination of the Trp and Trp analog contributions, taking into account the influence of the protein environment on the Trp analog spectrum. The data show that the analog content of EII(mtl) samples is very high (>95%). In addition, we report here that biosynthetic incorporation of Trp analogs can also be effected with less expensive indole analogs, which in vivo are converted to L-Trp analogs.
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- Jaap Broos
- Department of Biochemistry and Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute (GBB), University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Oliveira DCSG, Reinach FC. The calcium-induced switch in the troponin complex probed by fluorescent mutants of troponin I. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 270:2937-44. [PMID: 12846826 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03659.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The Ca2+-induced transition in the troponin complex (Tn) regulates vertebrate striated muscle contraction. Tn was reconstituted with recombinant forms of troponin I (TnI) containing a single intrinsic 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HW). Fluorescence analysis of these mutants of TnI demonstrate that the regions in TnI that respond to Ca2+ binding to the regulatory N-domain of TnC are the inhibitory region (residues 96-116) and a neighboring region that includes position 121. Our data confirms the role of TnI as a modulator of the Ca2+ affinity of TnC; we show that point mutations and incorporation of 5HW in TnI can affect both the affinity and the cooperativity of Ca2+ binding to TnC. We also discuss the possibility that the regulatory sites in the N-terminal domain of TnC might be the high affinity Ca2+-binding sites in the troponin complex.
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Li Q, Du HN, Hu HY. Study of protein-protein interactions by fluorescence of tryptophan analogs: application to immunoglobulin G binding domain of streptococcal protein G. Biopolymers 2003; 72:116-22. [PMID: 12583014 DOI: 10.1002/bip.10300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The protein-protein interaction system often contains many fluorophores that may significantly interfere with the quantitative determination of the binding abilities. To solve this perplexing problem, we biosynthetically incorporated the two tryptophan analogs, 5-hydroxytryptophan and 7-azatryptophan, into the immunoglobulin G (IgG) binding domain of streptococcal protein G (PGBD). The exclusive excitation and novel fluorescence changes in both the intensity and anisotropy are beneficial to reporting the details of the interactions between PGBD and the IgG fragments and enable assessment of the binding abilities. The dissociation constants are estimated to be 0.28 microM for the binding of human Fc and 8.0 microM for mouse Fc. The results clearly demonstrate that labeling of tryptophan analogs has very little effect on the binding abilities and is broadly applicable to quantitatively studying protein-protein interactions in a whole biomolecular complex.
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- Qi Li
- Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
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- Susan M Twine
- Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Valencia FF, Paulucci AA, Quaggio RB, Da Silva ACR, Farah CS, Reinach FC. Parallel measurement of Ca2+ binding and fluorescence emission upon Ca2+ titration of recombinant skeletal muscle troponin C. Measurement of sequential calcium binding to the regulatory sites. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:11007-14. [PMID: 12531902 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m209943200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Calcium binding to chicken recombinant skeletal muscle TnC (TnC) and its mutants containing tryptophan (F29W), 5-hydroxytryptophan (F29HW), or 7-azatryptophan (F29ZW) at position 29 was measured by flow dialysis and by fluorescence. Comparative analysis of the results allowed us to determine the influence of each amino acid on the calcium binding properties of the N-terminal regulatory domain of the protein. Compared with TnC, the Ca(2+) affinity of N-terminal sites was: 1) increased 6-fold in F29W, 2) increased 3-fold in F29ZW, and 3) decreased slightly in F29HW. The Ca(2+) titration of F29ZW monitored by fluorescence displayed a bimodal curve related to sequential Ca(2+) binding to the two N-terminal Ca(2+) binding sites. Single and double mutants of TnC, F29W, F29HW, and F29ZW were constructed by replacing aspartate by alanine at position 30 (site I) or 66 (site II) or both. Ca(2+) binding data showed that the Asp --> Ala mutation at position 30 impairs calcium binding to site I only, whereas the Asp --> Ala mutation at position 66 impairs calcium binding to both sites I and II. Furthermore, the Asp --> Ala mutation at position 30 eliminates the differences in Ca(2+) affinity observed for replacement of Phe at position 29 by Trp, 5-hydroxytryptophan, or 7-azatryptophan. We conclude that position 29 influences the affinity of site I and that Ca(2+) binding to site I is dependent on the previous binding of metal to site II.
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- Fernando Fortes Valencia
- Departamento de Bioquimica, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 26 077, São Paulo SP CEP 05599-970, Brazil.
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Buechter DD, Paolella DN, Leslie BS, Brown MS, Mehos KA, Gruskin EA. Co-translational incorporation of trans-4-hydroxyproline into recombinant proteins in bacteria. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:645-50. [PMID: 12399455 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m209364200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Trans-4-hydroxyproline (Hyp) in eukaryotic proteins arises from post-translational modification of proline residues. Because the modification enzyme is not present in prokaryotes, no natural means exists to incorporate Hyp into proteins synthesized in Escherichia coli. We show here that under appropriate culture conditions Hyp is incorporated co-translationally directly at proline codons in genes expressed in E. coli. The use of Hyp by E. coli protein synthesis machinery under typical culture conditions is not adequate to support protein synthesis; however, intracellular concentrations of Hyp sufficient to compensate for the poor use are achieved in media with hyperosmotic sodium chloride concentrations. Hyp incorporation was demonstrated in several recombinant proteins including human Type I collagen polypeptides. A fragment of the human collagen Type I (alpha1) polypeptide with global Hyp for Pro substitution forms a triple helix. Our results demonstrate a remarkable pliancy in the biosynthetic apparatus of bacteria that may be used more generally to incorporate novel amino acids into recombinant proteins.
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- Douglas D Buechter
- Life Sciences Division, United States Surgical Corporation, North Haven, Connecticut 06473, USA
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Twine SM, Murphy L, Phillips RS, Callis P, Cash MT, Szabo AG. The Photophysical Properties of 6-Azaindole. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp027102r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Susan M. Twine
- Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada, Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, 108 Gaines Hall, Bozeman, Montana 59717
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- Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada, Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, 108 Gaines Hall, Bozeman, Montana 59717
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- Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada, Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, 108 Gaines Hall, Bozeman, Montana 59717
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- Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada, Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, 108 Gaines Hall, Bozeman, Montana 59717
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- Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada, Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, 108 Gaines Hall, Bozeman, Montana 59717
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- Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada, Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, 108 Gaines Hall, Bozeman, Montana 59717
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Sengupta B, Guharay J, Chakraborty A, Sengupta PK. Low temperature luminescence behaviours of 7-azatryptophan, 5-hydroxytryptophan and their chromophoric moieties. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2002; 58:2005-2012. [PMID: 12164498 DOI: 10.1016/s1386-1425(01)00651-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The non-natural amino acids 7-azatryptophan (7AT) and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HT) have come into significant recent prominence as novel intrinsic luminescence probes for protein structure, function and dynamics. Here, we examine the low temperature luminescence behaviours of these molecules and their respective chromophoric moieties 7-azaindole (7AI) and 5-hydroxyindole (5HI) in representative solvent media. To ascertain, in particular, the potential usefulness of 7AT and 5HT as phosphorescence probes for exploring protein environments with different hydrogen bonding characteristics, a comparison is made of the phosphorescence properties of 7AI and 5HI chromophores in frozen solutions of ethanol and ethyl acetate at 77 K. These solvent media have been chosen as representative models for polar protic and aprotic environments in proteins, respectively. Our findings indicate that one or more of the phosphorescence emission parameters (phosphorescence emission maxima, relative yield and phosphorescence lifetime) of 7AI and 5HI chromophores can serve as sensitive and discriminating probes of hydrogen bonding and related aspects of their surrounding environments. Furthermore, in a model viscous environment (glycerol at low temperatures) significant temperature dependence and red edge excitation shift (REES) effects are observed for the fluorescence emission of 7AT and its chromophoric moiety 7AI. This is consistent with pronounced dipolar relaxation properties of these molecules, and suggests interesting possibilities for exploiting REES in exploring their environmental rigidity in motionally constrained situations.
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- Bidisa Sengupta
- Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India
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Brennan JD, Capretta A, Yong K, Gerritsma D, Flora KK, Jones A. Sensitization of lanthanides by nonnatural amino acids. Photochem Photobiol 2002; 75:117-21. [PMID: 11883598 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)075<0117:solbna>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The sensitization of Eu(III) and Tb(III) by ethylenediaminetetraaceticacid (EDTA)-derivatized tryptophan (Trp), 7-azatryptophan (7AW) and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HW) has been examined. These Trp analogs were utilized in the present study because they can be incorporated into proteins in place of native Trp residues and because they absorb strongly beyond 305 nm (where Trp absorbance goes to zero), allowing selective excitation of such species in the presence of other Trp-containing proteins. All three indole derivatives were able to sensitize Tb(III) luminescence, with the relative sensitization being in the order Trp > 5HW > 7AW. On the other hand, only the 7AW-EDTA complex was able to sensitize Eu(III) luminescence, likely owing to a better spectral overlap between 7AW emission and Eu(III) absorbance. The sensitized emission of Tb(III) and Eu(II) displayed the expected long emission lifetimes at 545 nm [for Tb(III)] and 617 nm [for Eu(III)], indicating that long-lifetime lanthanide emission could be produced using nonnatural amino-acid donors. Thus, 7AW- and 5HW-sensitized lanthanide emissions should prove to be useful in biophysical studies, such as the use of fluorescence energy transfer to probe biomolecular interactions in vivo.
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- John D Brennan
- Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Senear DF, Mendelson RA, Stone DB, Luck LA, Rusinova E, Ross JBA. Quantitative analysis of tryptophan analogue incorporation in recombinant proteins. Anal Biochem 2002; 300:77-86. [PMID: 11743694 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2001.5441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Three different methods to quantitate tryptophan (Trp) analogue incorporation into recombinant proteins are described: first, spectroscopic analysis based on a linear combination of the absorption spectra of the aromatic residues in the denatured Trp-containing or analogue-substituted protein; second, chromatographic separation of analogue-substituted and Trp-containing proteins by HPLC; and third, mass spectrum analysis of the mixture of analogue-substituted and Trp-containing proteins. An accurate estimate of analogue incorporation in single-Trp proteins can be obtained directly by either analysis of the absorption spectrum or HPLC chromatography. While analysis of the absorption spectrum or HPLC chromatogram can provide an assessment of the average level of analogue incorporation for proteins that contain two or more Trp residues, mass spectroscopy analysis of peptides generated by protease digestion and separated by HPLC provides a general method for a complete quantitative description of the distribution of analogue incorporation. The more complex analysis by mass spectroscopy becomes important for multi-Trp proteins because the distribution of analogue versus Trp-containing polypeptide chains may not be the same as that predicted on the basis of average level of analogue incorporation.
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- Donald F Senear
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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Sengupta B, Guharay J, Sengupta PK. Luminescence behaviour of 5-hydroxyindole in different environments. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2000; 56:1213-1221. [PMID: 10845550 DOI: 10.1016/s1386-1425(99)00274-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Steady state fluorescence emission spectroscopic studies along with some lifetime measurements have been performed for 5-hydroxyindole (5HI) in different environments. 5HI merits particular attention, since it is the chromophoric moiety of the non-natural amino acid 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HT), which has come into significant, recent prominence as a novel intrinsic optical probe for protein structure, function and dynamics. Studies in representative homogeneous solvents and solvent-mixtures indicate that unlike other fluorophores of related interest like indole (I) and 7-azaindole (7AI), the fluorescence emission maximum (lambda(em)max) of 5HI is relatively insensitive to solvent polarity. This behaviour suggests the lack of appreciable solvent dipolar relaxation in 5HI, which is consistent with our low temperature (77 K) emission data. Notwithstanding such limitation, fluorescence anisotropy (r) and quenching studies are shown to be effective for exploring changes in the micro-environments of 5HI in sodium bis-(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate (AOT) reverse micellar assemblies (which serve as a biomembrane mimetic model system) with variation in water/surfactant molar ratio (w0).
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- B Sengupta
- Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India
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Wallace CJA, Clark-Lewis I. Site-specific independent double labeling of proteins with reporter atoms. Biochem Cell Biol 2000. [DOI: 10.1139/o00-001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Many types of physical, spectroscopic, and biological studies of proteins and other macromolecules are facilitated by the incorporation of reporter groups. In many cases these are single atom substitutes, for example isotopes (13C for C), or light (F for H) and heavy (Se for S) atom homologs. In some circumstances the incorporation of two different labels in the same molecule would be greatly desirable. Commonly used protein engineering methods for incorporating them can rarely cope with differential double labeling, and have other limitations such as universal, non-specific, or random incorporation. Although de novo peptide synthesis has the power to achieve highly specific labeling, the difficulties inherent in creating long sequences lead us to propose protein semisynthesis as the most practical approach. By ligating combinations of natural and labeled synthetic fragments to reform holoproteins, we can overcome any of the limitations discussed. Using cytochrome c as a model protein we show that two reporter atoms, selenium and bromine, can be simultaneously and site-specifically incorporated without significant consequences to structure and (or) function. This capability opens up the prospect of advances in a number of areas in structural biology. Key words: semisynthesis, peptide synthesis, reporter groups, cytochrome c, structural biology.
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Das K, Ashby KD, Smirnov AV, Reinach FC, Petrich JW, Farah CS. Fluorescence Properties of Recombinant Tropomyosin Containing Tryptophan, 5-Hydroxytryptophan and 7-Azatryptophan. Photochem Photobiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb08275.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Farah CS, Reinach FC. Regulatory properties of recombinant tropomyosins containing 5-hydroxytryptophan: Ca2+-binding to troponin results in a conformational change in a region of tropomyosin outside the troponin binding site. Biochemistry 1999; 38:10543-51. [PMID: 10441151 DOI: 10.1021/bi982813u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We have introduced tryptophan codons at different positions of the chicken alpha-tropomyosin cDNA (Monteiro, P. B., Lataro, R. C., Ferro, J. A., and Reinach, F. C. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 10461-10466) and employed a trp auxotrophic Escherichia coli strain to express the proteins in media containing either normal tryptophan, 5-hydroxytrptophan, or 7-azatryptophan. The fluorescence of these latter two tryptophan analogues is excitable at 312-315 nm at which the natural fluorescence of other thin filament proteins (actin, troponin) is not excited. The recombinant tropomyosins have tryptophans or analogues located at amino acid positions 90, 101, 111, 122, or 185 of the protein, all on the external surface of the tropomyosin coiled-coil (positions "c" or "f" of the hydrophobic heptad repeat). The first four mutations are located within the third actin-binding zone of tropomyosin, a region not expected to interact directly with troponin or with neighboring tropomyosin molecules in muscle thin filaments, while position 185 is located in a region that has been implicated in interactions with the globular domain of troponin. The fluorescence intensity of the mutant containing 5-hydroxytryptophan at position 122 (5OH122W) is sensitive to actin binding and sensitive to Ca2+-binding to thin filaments reconstituted with troponin. Assuming that the globular domain of troponin binds to a site between residues 150 and 190 of tropomyosin, the distance between the troponin-binding site and the fluorescent probes at position 122 can be estimated to be 4.2-10.2 nm. While X-ray diffraction and electron micrograph reconstitution studies have provided evidence of Ca2+-induced changes in tropomyosin's interactions in the thin filament, their resolution was not sufficient to distinguish between changes involving the whole tropomyosin molecule or only that region directly interacting with troponin. Here we provide a clear demonstration that Ca2+-binding to troponin results in a conformational change in a region of tropomyosin outside the troponin binding site which is probably associated with a changed interaction with actin.
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- C S Farah
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
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Broos J, ter Veld F, Robillard GT. Membrane protein-ligand interactions in Escherichia coli vesicles and living cells monitored via a biosynthetically incorporated tryptophan analogue. Biochemistry 1999; 38:9798-803. [PMID: 10433685 DOI: 10.1021/bi991157a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This paper presents a deceptively straightforward experimental approach to monitoring membrane protein-ligand interactions in vesicles and in living Escherichia coli cells. This is achieved via the biosynthetic incorporation of 7-azatryptophan, a tryptophan analogue with a red-shifted absorption spectrum, allowing collection of the emission signal of the target protein in a high tryptophan background via red-edge excitation. The approach is demonstrated for the mannitol permease of E. coli (EII(mtl)), an integral membrane protein of 637 amino acids, including four tryptophans, and single-tryptophan mutants of EII(mtl). By using a tryptophan auxotroph, a high level of 7-azatryptophan incorporation in EII(mtl) was achieved. The change in emission signal of the purified enzyme upon mannitol binding (-28%) was 4-fold larger than with EII(mtl) containing tryptophan, demonstrating the known higher sensitivity of this analogue for changes in the microenvironment [Schlesinger, R. (1968) J. Biol. Chem. 243, 3877-3883]. Changes in emission signal could also be monitored (-5%) when the enzyme was situated in vesicles, although it constituted only 10-15% of the total cytoplasmic membrane fraction. Of the five single-tryptophan mutants, the emission signal of the mutant with 7-azatryptophan at position 198 was the most sensitive for mannitol binding. Changes in emission signal not only were observed in vesicles (-18%) but also could be monitored in viable cells (-5%). The fact that only modest expression levels and no protein purification are needed makes this a useful approach for the characterization of numerous protein systems under in vitro and in vivo conditions.
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- J Broos
- Department of Biochemistry, Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Nishimoto E, Yamashita S, Yamasaki N, Imoto T. Resolution and characterization of tryptophyl fluorescence of hen egg-white lysozyme by quenching- and time-resolved spectroscopy. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 1999; 63:329-36. [PMID: 10192915 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The fluorescence spectral distributions of four tryptophan residues of hen egg-white lysozyme were analyzed using time-resolved and quenching-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. Trp62 and Trp108 gave the fluorescence maxima at 352 nm and 342 nm, respectively. The fluorescence of Trp28 and Trp111 occurred only at 300-360 nm and they were observed as an unresolved emission band with a maximum and shoulder at 320 nm and 330 nm. The fluorescence quenching and decay parameters of each tryptophan residue reconfirmed that Trp62 was fully exposed to the solvent but Trp108 was sealed in the cage of the peptide chains and furthermore showed that Trp28 and Trp111 are under the influence of the larger fluctuational motion at the hydrophobic matrix box. The fluorescence responses of each tryptophan residue to the lysozyme-ligand interaction suggested that the internal fluctuation was reduced by the binding of ligand to give a distorted conformation to the hydrophobic matrix box region.
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- E Nishimoto
- Division of Material Chemistry, Kyushu National Industrial Research Institute, Japan
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Senear DF, Ross JB, Laue TM. Analysis of protein and DNA-mediated contributions to cooperative assembly of protein-DNA complexes. Methods 1998; 16:3-20. [PMID: 9774512 DOI: 10.1006/meth.1998.0641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The cooperative assembly of protein-DNA complexes is a widespread phenomenon that is of particular significance to transcriptional regulation. Assembly of these complexes is controlled by the chemistry of the macromolecular interactions. In this sense, transcriptional regulation is a chemical issue. The purpose of this review is to present an analytical approach designed to understand this regulation from a chemical perspective. By investigating the solution interactions between all combinations of molecules, protein-protein, protein-ligand, and protein-DNA, and the interplay between them, it is possible to determine the relative free energies of the different configurations of the regulatory complex. This governs their distribution and thereby controls the biological activity. To illustrate the approach, we will address the molecular basis for cooperativity in the bacteriophage lambda, lysogenic-lytic switch mechanism, a system that has long served as a paradigm for gene regulation. The driving force for cooperativity in the assembly of gene regulatory complexes is generally thought to be provided by direct protein-protein interactions. However, other interactions mediated by both proteins and DNA are also involved and may be critical to the regulatory mechanism. We will review advances over the past several years in the application of biophysical chemical methods to investigate protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions. Many of these applications were first employed for the lambda system. In addition to describing the physical basis for the methods, we will focus on the unique information that can be gained and how to combine the information obtained from several techniques to develop a comprehensive view of the critical regulatory interactions.
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- D F Senear
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, 92697, USA. dfsenear.uci.edu
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Cioni P, Erijman L, Strambini GB. Phosphorescence emission of 7-azatryptophan and 5-hydroxytryptophan in fluid solutions and in alpha2 RNA polymerase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 248:347-51. [PMID: 9675138 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The tryptophan analogues 7-azaindole (7-Aza W) and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-OH W) have a significant absorbance between 310-320 nm, which allows them to act as selective luminescence probes in protein mixtures containing a large number of tryptophan residues. To assess the potential of their phosphorescence emission in probing the nature of protein environments the delayed emission was examined as a function of temperature and solvent viscosity. Whereas in low temperature (135 K) propylene glycol/buffer glasses the phosphorescence of both 7-aza W and 5-OH W is structured, intense and exhibit a lifetime of a few seconds, above the glass transition temperature (180 K) the delayed emission is considerably quenched. Temperature profiles show that as the solvent is more fluid the phosphorescence of 5-OH W becomes red shifted, poorly structured and the triplet lifetime drops steeply reaching 29 micro(s) in buffer at 274 K. For 7-aza W the alterations are more drastic and no phosphorescence could be detected above 193 K. This implies that in fluid aqueous media the excited triplet state of these analogues is deactivated by vary efficient nonradiative processes. The quenching of 5-OH phosphorescence is not prevented even when the chromophore is inserted in a solvent protected protein environment. Indeed, substitution of the single Trp of a2 RNA Polymerase, which according to its relatively low phosphorescence lifetime at ambient temperature is substantially shielded from the solvent, with 5-OH did not inhibit the quenchability of the latter. Knowledge of the quenching mechanisms is therefore needed for this emission to report on the nature of the protein environment.
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- P Cioni
- C.N.R. - Istituto di Biofisica, Via S. Lorenzo, 26, Pisa, 56127, Italy.
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Ozarowski A, Wu JQ, Maki AH. Study of complexes of a tryptophan-free mutant of E. coli trp aporepressor with tryptophan analogues using optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR). FEBS Lett 1998; 422:52-6. [PMID: 9475168 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)01602-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Phosphorescence and optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectra of tryptophan (W) and several of its analogues (4-, 5-, 6-methyltryptophan (MeW); 4-, 5-, 6-fluorotryptophan (FW); 5-bromotryptophan) are compared with those of complexes formed with the W-free trp aporepressor from Escherichia coli (W19,99F). W19,99F binds W and each analogue except 4-FW with an estimated KD < or = 30 microM; triplet state spectroscopic and kinetic effects that accompany binding at the corepressor site are reported. ODMR data for the MeW isomers are presented for the first time. No binding of 7-azaW is observed, in agreement with the low affinity found by previous workers.
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- A Ozarowski
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
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Driscoll SL, Hawkins ME, Balis FM, Pfleiderer W, Laws WR. Fluorescence properties of a new guanosine analog incorporated into small oligonucleotides. Biophys J 1997; 73:3277-86. [PMID: 9414238 PMCID: PMC1181229 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78352-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The fluorescence properties of 3-methyl-isoxanthopterin (3-MI) incorporated into different oligonucleotides have been determined. This highly fluorescent guanosine analog has its absorption and fluorescence spectra well resolved from those of the normal nucleotides and the aromatic amino acids. The small shifts observed in absorption and fluorescence emission spectra upon incorporation of 3-MI into these oligonucleotides are consistent with a general solvent effect and do not suggest any contribution from the position of the probe from the 5' end, the sequence of nucleotides immediately 5' or 3' to the probe, or the single- or double-stranded nature of the oligomer. However, steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies indicate that the presence of a purine immediately 5' or 3' to the probe results in some dynamic but mostly static quenching in the single-stranded oligomer. Furthermore, a 3' purine is more effective than a 5' purine, and an adenine appears to be more effective than a guanine for these static quenching interactions. Formation of the double-stranded oligomer leads to an additional loss of quantum yield, which can also be ascribed primarily to static quenching. These results show that this new class of spectrally enhanced fluorescent purine analogs will be able to provide useful information concerning the perturbation of nucleic acid structures.
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- S L Driscoll
- Department of Biochemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
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Wong CY, Eftink MR. Biosynthetic incorporation of tryptophan analogues into staphylococcal nuclease: effect of 5-hydroxytryptophan and 7-azatryptophan on structure and stability. Protein Sci 1997; 6:689-97. [PMID: 9070451 PMCID: PMC2143680 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560060318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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5-Hydroxytryptophan (5HW) and 7-azatryptophan (7AW) are analogue of tryptophan that potentially can be incorporated biosynthetically into proteins and used as spectroscopic probes for studying protein-DNA and protein-protein complexes. The utility of these probes will depend on the extent to which they can be incorporated and the demonstration that they cause minimal perturbation of a protein's structure and stability. To investigate these factors in a model protein, we have incorporated 5HW and 7AW biosynthetically into staphylococcal nuclease A, using a trp auxotroph Escherichia coli expression system containing the temperature-sensitive lambda cI repressor, Both tryptophan analogues are incorporated into the protein with good efficiency. From analysis of absorption spectra, we estimate approximately 95% incorporation of 5HW into position 140 of nuclease, and we estimate approximately 98% incorporation of 7AW, CD spectra of the nuclease variants are similar to that of the tryptophan-containing protein, indicating that the degree of secondary structure is not changed by the tryptophan analogues. Steady-state fluorescence data show emission maxima of 338 nm for 5HW-containing nuclease and 355 nm for 7AW-containing nuclease. Time-resolved fluorescence intensity and anisotropy measurements indicate that the incorporated 5HW residue, like tryptophan at position 140, has a dominant rotational correlation time that is approximately the value expected for global rotation of the protein. Guanidine-hydrochloride-induced unfolding studies show the unfolding transition to be two-state for 5HW-containing protein, with a free energy change for unfolding that is equal to that of the tryptophan-containing protein. In contrast, the guanidine-hydrochloride-induced unfolding of 7AW-containing nuclease appears to show a non-two-state transition, with the apparent stability of the protein being less than that of the tryptophan form.
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- C Y Wong
- Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi, University 38677, USA
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Ross JB, Szabo AG, Hogue CW. Enhancement of protein spectra with tryptophan analogs: fluorescence spectroscopy of protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions. Methods Enzymol 1997; 278:151-90. [PMID: 9170313 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(97)78010-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- J B Ross
- Department of Biochemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
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Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy is used to monitor molecular interactions and motions that occur in the picosecond-nanosecond time range, and is especially useful in the analysis of biomolecular structure and dynamics. Recent advances in the application of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy to biological systems have led to a better understanding of the origin of nonexponential fluorescence decay in proteins, the use of tryptophan analogs as unique spectroscopic probes of protein-protein interactions, the detailed characterization of protein-folding processes and intermediates, and the development of new approaches to the study of DNA-protein interactions.
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- D P Millar
- Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Wu JQ, Ozarowski A, Davis SK, Maki AH. Triplet State Properties of 7-Azatryptophan and 5-Hydroxytryptophan: Analysis of Delayed “Slow-Passage” ODMR Responses. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/jp9606422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jie Q. Wu
- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616
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Shen F, Triezenberg SJ, Hensley P, Porter D, Knutson JR. Transcriptional activation domain of the herpesvirus protein VP16 becomes conformationally constrained upon interaction with basal transcription factors. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:4827-37. [PMID: 8617752 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.9.4827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The transcriptional activation domain of the herpesvirus protein VP16 resides in the carboxyl-terminal 78 amino acids (residues 413-490). Fluorescence analyses of this domain indicated that critical amino acids are solvent-exposed in highly mobile segments. To examine interactions between VP16 and components of the basal transcriptional machinery, we incorporated (at position 442 or 473 of VP16) tryptophan analogs that can be selectively excited in complexes with other Trp-containing proteins. TATA-box binding protein (TBP) (but not transcription factor B (TFIIB)) caused concentration-dependent changes in the steady-state anisotropy of VP16, from which equilibrium binding constants were calculated. Quenching of the fluorescence from either position (442 or 473) was significantly affected by TBP, whereas TFIIB affected quenching only at position 473. 7-aza-Trp residues at either position showed a emission spectral shift in the presence of TBP (but not TFIIB), indicating a change to a more hydrophobic environment. In anisotropy decay experiments, TBP reduced the segmental motion at either position; in contrast, TFIIB induced a slight change only at position 473. Our results support models of TBP as a target protein for transcriptional activators and suggest that ordered structure in the VP16 activation domain is induced upon interaction with target proteins.
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- F Shen
- Biochemistry Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319, USA
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Kombo DC, Némethy G, Gibson KD, Ross JB, Rackovsky S, Scheraga HA. Effects on protein structure and function of replacing tryptophan with 5-hydroxytryptophan: single-tryptophan mutants of the N-terminal domain of the bacteriophage lambda repressor. JOURNAL OF PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 1996; 15:77-86. [PMID: 8838592 DOI: 10.1007/bf01886813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Conformational energy computations have been carried out on the N-acetyl-N'-methylamide of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5OH-Trp) using ECEPP/3. As observed with tryptophan (Trp), the most preferred conformation about the C alpha-C beta bond of the side chain is g+ or t. This preference is reduced to only the t conformational state when 5-hydroxyTrp is in the middle of a right-handed poly(L-alanine) alpha-helix. A similar result has been obtained with Trp [Piela et al. (1987), Biopolymers 1987, 1273-1286]. These results suggest that replacement of Trp by its analog 5-hydroxyTrp may be tolerated in an alpha-helix. To test this hypothesis, we have replaced Trp by 5OH-Trp in the fifth helices of two functionally active mutants of the N-terminal domain of the bacteriophage lambda repressor. Computations on the packing of these helices have shown that no significant structural changes results from the replacement of Trp by 5OH-Trp. The DNA-binding activity of these mutants, as assessed indirectly through geometrical parameters, is also unaltered.
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- D C Kombo
- Department of Biochemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
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