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Ramakrishnan K, Johnson RL, Winter SD, Worthy HL, Thomas C, Humer DC, Spadiut O, Hindson SH, Wells S, Barratt AH, Menzies GE, Pudney CR, Jones DD. Glycosylation increases active site rigidity leading to improved enzyme stability and turnover. FEBS J 2023; 290:3812-3827. [PMID: 37004154 PMCID: PMC10952495 DOI: 10.1111/febs.16783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Glycosylation is the most prevalent protein post-translational modification, with a quarter of glycosylated proteins having enzymatic properties. Yet, the full impact of glycosylation on the protein structure-function relationship, especially in enzymes, is still limited. Here, we show that glycosylation rigidifies the important commercial enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP), which in turn increases its turnover and stability. Circular dichroism spectroscopy revealed that glycosylation increased holo-HRP's thermal stability and promoted significant helical structure in the absence of haem (apo-HRP). Glycosylation also resulted in a 10-fold increase in enzymatic turnover towards o-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride when compared to its nonglycosylated form. Utilising a naturally occurring site-specific probe of active site flexibility (Trp117) in combination with red-edge excitation shift fluorescence spectroscopy, we found that glycosylation significantly rigidified the enzyme. In silico simulations confirmed that glycosylation largely decreased protein backbone flexibility, especially in regions close to the active site and the substrate access channel. Thus, our data show that glycosylation does not just have a passive effect on HRP stability but can exert long-range effects that mediate the 'native' enzyme's activity and stability through changes in inherent dynamics.
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of BiosciencesCardiff UniversityUK
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of BiosciencesCardiff UniversityUK
- Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Life SciencesUniversity of ExeterUK
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Area Biochemical EngineeringTU WienAustria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Area Biochemical EngineeringTU WienAustria
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of BiosciencesCardiff UniversityUK
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- Department of Biology and BiochemistryUniversity of BathUK
- Centre for Therapeutic InnovationUniversity of BathUK
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of BiosciencesCardiff UniversityUK
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Bacellar C, Rouxel JR, Ingle RA, Mancini GF, Kinschel D, Cannelli O, Zhao Y, Cirelli C, Knopp G, Szlachetko J, Lima FA, Menzi S, Ozerov D, Pamfilidis G, Kubicek K, Khakhulin D, Gawelda W, Rodriguez-Fernandez A, Biednov M, Bressler C, Arrell CA, Johnson PJM, Milne CJ, Chergui M. Ultrafast Energy Transfer from Photoexcited Tryptophan to the Haem in Cytochrome c. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:2425-2432. [PMID: 36862109 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00218] [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: 06/18/2023]
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We report femtosecond Fe K-edge absorption (XAS) and nonresonant X-ray emission (XES) spectra of ferric cytochrome C (Cyt c) upon excitation of the haem (>300 nm) or mixed excitation of the haem and tryptophan (<300 nm). The XAS and XES transients obtained in both excitation energy ranges show no evidence for electron transfer processes between photoexcited tryptophan (Trp) and the haem, but rather an ultrafast energy transfer, in agreement with previous ultrafast optical fluorescence and transient absorption studies. The reported (J. Phys. Chem. B 2011, 115 (46), 13723-13730) decay times of Trp fluorescence in ferrous (∼350 fs) and ferric (∼700 fs) Cyt c are among the shortest ever reported for Trp in a protein. The observed time scales cannot be rationalized in terms of Förster or Dexter energy transfer mechanisms and call for a more thorough theoretical investigation.
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- Camila Bacellar
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Univ Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne, CNRS, Graduate School Optics Institute, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, UMR 5516, Saint-Etienne F-42023, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2Laboratory for Ultrafast X-ray and Electron Microscopy, Department of Physics, University of Pavia, Via Agostino Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia PV, Italy
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, 30-392 Kraków, Poland
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- SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, D-22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 2, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- IMDEA Nanociencia, Calle Faraday 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, D-22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, D-22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Johnson RL, Blaber HG, Evans T, Worthy HL, Pope JR, Jones DD. Designed Artificial Protein Heterodimers With Coupled Functions Constructed Using Bio-Orthogonal Chemistry. Front Chem 2021; 9:733550. [PMID: 34422774 PMCID: PMC8371201 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.733550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The formation of protein complexes is central to biology, with oligomeric proteins more prevalent than monomers. The coupling of functionally and even structurally distinct protein units can lead to new functional properties not accessible by monomeric proteins alone. While such complexes are driven by evolutionally needs in biology, the ability to link normally functionally and structurally disparate proteins can lead to new emergent properties for use in synthetic biology and the nanosciences. Here we demonstrate how two disparate proteins, the haem binding helical bundle protein cytochrome b 562 and the β-barrel green fluorescent protein can be combined to form a heterodimer linked together by an unnatural triazole linkage. The complex was designed using computational docking approaches to predict compatible interfaces between the two proteins. Models of the complexes where then used to engineer residue coupling sites in each protein to link them together. Genetic code expansion was used to incorporate azide chemistry in cytochrome b 562 and alkyne chemistry in GFP so that a permanent triazole covalent linkage can be made between the two proteins. Two linkage sites with respect to GFP were sampled. Spectral analysis of the new heterodimer revealed that haem binding and fluorescent protein chromophore properties were retained. Functional coupling was confirmed through changes in GFP absorbance and fluorescence, with linkage site determining the extent of communication between the two proteins. We have thus shown here that is possible to design and build heterodimeric proteins that couple structurally and functionally disparate proteins to form a new complex with new functional properties.
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- Rachel L. Johnson
- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- The Henry Wellcome Building for Biocatalysis, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- The Henry Wellcome Building for Biocatalysis, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Biosciences Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Majed Chergui
- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU) and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC, FSB, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Borrego-Varillas R, Nenov A, Ganzer L, Oriana A, Manzoni C, Tolomelli A, Rivalta I, Mukamel S, Garavelli M, Cerullo G. Two-dimensional UV spectroscopy: a new insight into the structure and dynamics of biomolecules. Chem Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9sc03871j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Two-dimensional ultraviolet spectroscopy has the potential to deliver rich structural and dynamical information on biomolecules such as DNA and proteins.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale
- Universitá degli Studi di Bologna
- I-40136 Bologna
- Italy
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- IFN-CNR
- Dipartimento di Fisica
- Politecnico di Milano
- I-20133 Milano
- Italy
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- IFN-CNR
- Dipartimento di Fisica
- Politecnico di Milano
- I-20133 Milano
- Italy
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- IFN-CNR
- Dipartimento di Fisica
- Politecnico di Milano
- I-20133 Milano
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica
- Universitá degli Studi di Bologna
- I-40126 Bologna
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale
- Universitá degli Studi di Bologna
- I-40136 Bologna
- Italy
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- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- University of California
- Irvine
- USA
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale
- Universitá degli Studi di Bologna
- I-40136 Bologna
- Italy
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- IFN-CNR
- Dipartimento di Fisica
- Politecnico di Milano
- I-20133 Milano
- Italy
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Wörner HJ, Arrell CA, Banerji N, Cannizzo A, Chergui M, Das AK, Hamm P, Keller U, Kraus PM, Liberatore E, Lopez-Tarifa P, Lucchini M, Meuwly M, Milne C, Moser JE, Rothlisberger U, Smolentsev G, Teuscher J, van Bokhoven JA, Wenger O. Charge migration and charge transfer in molecular systems. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (MELVILLE, N.Y.) 2017; 4:061508. [PMID: 29333473 PMCID: PMC5745195 DOI: 10.1063/1.4996505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The transfer of charge at the molecular level plays a fundamental role in many areas of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. Today, more than 60 years after the seminal work of R. A. Marcus, charge transfer is still a very active field of research. An important recent impetus comes from the ability to resolve ever faster temporal events, down to the attosecond time scale. Such a high temporal resolution now offers the possibility to unravel the most elementary quantum dynamics of both electrons and nuclei that participate in the complex process of charge transfer. This review covers recent research that addresses the following questions. Can we reconstruct the migration of charge across a molecule on the atomic length and electronic time scales? Can we use strong laser fields to control charge migration? Can we temporally resolve and understand intramolecular charge transfer in dissociative ionization of small molecules, in transition-metal complexes and in conjugated polymers? Can we tailor molecular systems towards specific charge-transfer processes? What are the time scales of the elementary steps of charge transfer in liquids and nanoparticles? Important new insights into each of these topics, obtained from state-of-the-art ultrafast spectroscopy and/or theoretical methods, are summarized in this review.
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- Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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It was recently demonstrated that in ferric myoglobins (Mb) the fluorescence quenching of the photoexcited tryptophan 14 (*Trp(14)) residue is in part due to an electron transfer to the heme porphyrin (porph), turning it to the ferrous state. However, the invariance of *Trp decay times in ferric and ferrous Mbs raises the question as to whether electron transfer may also be operative in the latter. Using UV pump/visible probe transient absorption, we show that this is indeed the case for deoxy-Mb. We observe that the reduction generates (with a yield of about 30%) a low-valence Fe-porphyrin π [Fe(II)(porph(●-))] -anion radical, which we observe for the first time to our knowledge under physiological conditions. We suggest that the pathway for the electron transfer proceeds via the leucine 69 (Leu(69)) and valine 68 (Val(68)) residues. The results on ferric Mbs and the present ones highlight the generality of Trp-porphyrin electron transfer in heme proteins.
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Morgounova E, Shao Q, Hackel BJ, Thomas DD, Ashkenazi S. Photoacoustic lifetime contrast between methylene blue monomers and self-quenched dimers as a model for dual-labeled activatable probes. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2013; 18:56004. [PMID: 23640075 PMCID: PMC4023645 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.18.5.056004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2012] [Revised: 03/19/2013] [Accepted: 03/26/2013] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Activatable photoacoustic probes efficiently combine the high spatial resolution and penetration depth of ultrasound with the high optical contrast and versatility of molecular imaging agents. Our approach is based on photoacoustic probing of the excited-state lifetime of methylene blue (MB), a fluorophore widely used in clinical therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Upon aggregation, static quenching between the bound molecules dramatically shortens their lifetime by three orders of magnitude. We present preliminary results demonstrating the ability of photoacoustic imaging to probe the lifetime contrast between monomers and dimers with high sensitivity in cylindrical phantoms. Gradual dimerization enhancement, driven by the addition of increasing concentrations of sodium sulfate to a MB solution, showed that lifetime-based photoacoustic probing decreases linearly with monomer concentration. Similarly, the addition of 4 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate, a concentration that amplifies MB aggregation and reduces the monomer concentration by more than 20-fold, led to a signal decrease of more than 20 dB compared to a solution free of surfactant. These results suggest that photoacoustic imaging can be used to selectively detect the presence of monomers. We conclude by discussing the implementation of the monomer-dimer contrast mechanism for the development of an enzyme-specific activatable probe.
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- Ekaterina Morgounova
- University of Minnesota, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Consani C, Auböck G, van Mourik F, Chergui M. Ultrafast tryptophan-to-heme electron transfer in myoglobins revealed by UV 2D spectroscopy. Science 2013; 339:1586-9. [PMID: 23393092 DOI: 10.1126/science.1230758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Tryptophan is commonly used to study protein structure and dynamics, such as protein folding, as a donor in fluorescence resonant energy transfer (FRET) studies. By using ultra-broadband ultrafast two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy in the ultraviolet (UV) and transient absorption in the visible range, we have disentangled the excited state decay pathways of the tryptophan amino acid residues in ferric myoglobins (MbCN and metMb). Whereas the more distant tryptophan (Trp(7)) relaxes by energy transfer to the heme, Trp(14) excitation predominantly decays by electron transfer to the heme. The excited Trp(14)→heme electron transfer occurs in <40 picoseconds with a quantum yield of more than 60%, over an edge-to-edge distance below ~10 angstroms, outcompeting the FRET process. Our results raise the question of whether such electron transfer pathways occur in a larger class of proteins.
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- Cristina Consani
- Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Arpino JAJ, Czapinska H, Piasecka A, Edwards WR, Barker P, Gajda MJ, Bochtler M, Jones DD. Structural basis for efficient chromophore communication and energy transfer in a constructed didomain protein scaffold. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:13632-40. [PMID: 22822710 DOI: 10.1021/ja301987h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The construction of useful functional biomolecular components not currently part of the natural repertoire is central to synthetic biology. A new light-capturing ultra-high-efficiency energy transfer protein scaffold has been constructed by coupling the chromophore centers of two normally unrelated proteins: the autofluorescent protein enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) and the heme-binding electron transfer protein cytochrome b(562) (cyt b(562)). Using a combinatorial domain insertion strategy, a variant was isolated in which resonance energy transfer from the donor EGFP to the acceptor cyt b(562) was close to 100% as evident by virtually full fluorescence quenching on heme binding. The fluorescence signal of the variant was also sensitive to the reactive oxygen species H(2)O(2), with high signal gain observed due to the release of heme. The structure of oxidized holoprotein, determined to 2.75 Å resolution, revealed that the two domains were arranged side-by-side in a V-shape conformation, generating an interchromophore distance of ~17 Å (14 Å edge-to-edge). Critical to domain arrangement is the formation of a molecular pivot point between the two domains as a result of different linker sequence lengths at each domain junction and formation of a predominantly polar interdomain interaction surface. The retrospective structural analysis has provided an explanation for the basis of the observed highly efficient energy transfer through chromophore arrangement in the directly evolved protein scaffold and provides an insight into the molecular principles by which to design new proteins with coupled functions.
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- James A J Arpino
- School of Biosciences, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Banerjee S, Zamocky M, Furtmüller PG, Obinger C. Probing the two-domain structure of homodimeric prokaryotic and eukaryotic catalase-peroxidases. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2010; 1804:2136-45. [PMID: 20654740 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2010] [Revised: 07/04/2010] [Accepted: 07/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Catalase-peroxidases (KatGs) are ancestral bifunctional heme peroxidases found in archaeons, bacteria and lower eukaryotes. In contrast to homologous cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP) and ascorbate peroxidase (APx) homodimeric KatGs have a two-domain monomeric structure with a catalytic N-terminal heme domain and a C-terminal domain of high sequence and structural similarity but without obvious function. Nevertheless, without its C-terminal counterpart the N-terminal domain exhibits neither catalase nor peroxidase activity. Except some hybrid-type proteins all other members of the peroxidase-catalase superfamily lack this C-terminal domain. In order to probe the role of the two-domain monomeric structure for conformational and thermal stability urea and temperature-dependent unfolding experiments were performed by using UV-Vis-, electronic circular dichroism- and fluorescence spectroscopy, as well as differential scanning calorimetry. Recombinant prokaryotic (cyanobacterial KatG from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803) and eukaryotic (fungal KatG from Magnaporthe grisea) were investigated. The obtained data demonstrate that the conformational and thermal stability of bifunctional KatGs is significantly lower compared to homologous monofunctional peroxidases. The N- and C-terminal domains do not unfold independently. Differences between the cyanobacterial and the fungal enzyme are relatively small. Data will be discussed with respect to known structure and function of KatG, CcP and APx.
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- Srijib Banerjee
- Department of Chemistry, Division of Biochemistry, BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
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Stevens JA, Link JJ, Kao YT, Zang C, Wang L, Zhong D. Ultrafast Dynamics of Resonance Energy Transfer in Myoglobin: Probing Local Conformation Fluctuations. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:1498-505. [PMID: 20047308 DOI: 10.1021/jp910013f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Jeffrey A. Stevens
- Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry Programs, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry Programs, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry Programs, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry Programs, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry Programs, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry Programs, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Glandières JM, Twist C, Haouz A, Zentz C, Alpert B. Resolved Fluorescence of the Two Tryptophan Residues in Horse Apomyoglobin. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)0710382rfottt2.0.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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Eftink MR. Fluorescence techniques for studying protein structure. METHODS OF BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS 2006; 35:127-205. [PMID: 2002770 DOI: 10.1002/9780470110560.ch3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- M R Eftink
- Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi
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Hay S, Wallace BB, Smith TA, Ghiggino KP, Wydrzynski T. Protein engineering of cytochrome b562 for quinone binding and light-induced electron transfer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:17675-80. [PMID: 15585583 PMCID: PMC539716 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406192101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The central photochemical reaction in photosystem II of green algae and plants and the reaction center of some photosynthetic bacteria involves a one-electron transfer from a light-activated chlorin complex to a bound quinone molecule. Through protein engineering, we have been able to modify a protein to mimic this reaction. A unique quinone-binding site was engineered into the Escherichia coli cytochrome b(562) by introducing a cysteine within the hydrophobic interior of the protein. Various quinones, such as p-benzoquinone and 2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl-1,4-benzoquinone, were then covalently attached to the protein through a cysteine sulfur addition reaction to the quinone ring. The cysteine placement was designed to bind the quinone approximately 10 A from the edge of the bound porphyrin. Fluorescence measurements confirmed that the bound hydroquinone is incorporated toward the protein's hydrophobic interior and is partially solvent-shielded. The bound quinones remain redox-active and can be oxidized and rereduced in a two-electron process at neutral pH. The semiquinone can be generated at high pH by a one-electron reduction, and the midpoint potential of this can be adjusted by approximately 500 mV by binding different quinones to the protein. The heme-binding site of the modified cytochrome was then reconstituted with the chlorophyll analogue zinc chlorin e(6). By using EPR and fast optical techniques, we show that, in the various chlorin-protein-quinone complexes, light-induced electron transfer can occur from the chlorin to the bound oxidized quinone but not the hydroquinone, with electron transfer rates in the order of 10(8) s(-1).
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- Sam Hay
- Photobioenergetics Research Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
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Buzády A, Erostyák J, Somogyi B. Phase-fluorometry study on dielectric relaxation of acrylodan-labeled human serum albumin. Biophys Chem 2001; 94:75-85. [PMID: 11744192 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(01)00212-5] [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: 10/18/2022]
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Dielectric relaxation (DR) of acrylodan-labeled human serum albumin (HSA/AC) was studied by phase-fluorometry. A non-monoexponential behavior of both the total fluorescence--and the DR decays has been found. The protein environment of the fluorescent marker shows DR times ranging from the pico to nanosecond timescale. In fluorescence emission decays measured on the red side of the fluorescence spectrum a time constant (<10 ps) affected by a negative preexponential was found supporting the existence of DR of the excited states.
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- A Buzády
- Department of Experimental Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Ifjúság u. 6., Hungary.
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Buzády A, Erostyák J, Somogyi B. Phase-fluorimetry study on dielectric relaxation of human serum albumin. Biophys Chem 2000; 88:153-63. [PMID: 11152272 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(00)00210-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The dielectric relaxation (DR) of human serum albumin (HSA) was studied by the method of phase-fluorometry. The protein environment of the single tryptophan in HSA shows a relatively low-speed DR of sub-ns characteristic time. This relaxation can be measured as a decaying red-shift of the time-resolved fluorescence emission spectra. The details of calculations of time-emission matrices (TEM) and comparison to the fluorescence data of the reference solution of N-acetyl-L-tryptophanamide (NATA) are also presented.
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- A Buzády
- Department of Experimental Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Pécs, Hungary.
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Glandières JM, Twist C, Haouz A, Zentz C, Alpert B. Resolved fluorescence of the two tryptophan residues in horse apomyoglobin. Photochem Photobiol 2000; 71:382-6. [PMID: 10824587 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)071<0382:rfottt>2.0.co;2] [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: 11/19/2022]
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The composite fluorescence emission from the two tryptophans (W7 and W14) of horse heart apomyoglobin was explored by fluorescence quenching experiments. The fluorescence of the W7 residue is the only one involved in the quenching by iodide or trichloroethanol (TCE) titration. The fluorescence contribution of W7 is 49% of the total apomyoglobin emission, and its spectrum is red-shifted compared to the W14 emission. The fluorescence decay of Trp residues gives an average fluorescence lifetime of 2.06 ns for W14 and 2.84 ns for W7. The static fluorescence quenching by TCE was used to monitor the individual motions of the two tryptophans in apomyoglobin. The short correlation time of W7 (rho = 3 ns) explains why this residue can experience various environments without having to assume the existence of several protein conformations occurring during its lifetime emission.
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- J M Glandières
- Laboratoire de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France
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Wang ZQ, Wang YH, Qian W, Wang HH, Chunyu LJ, Xie Y, Huang ZX. Methanol-induced unfolding and refolding of cytochrome b5 and its P40V mutant monitored by UV-visible, CD, and fluorescence spectra. JOURNAL OF PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 1999; 18:547-55. [PMID: 10524772 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020699200092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In order to illustrate the structural importance of proline-40 of cytochrome b5 (Cyt b5), the P40V mutant gene was constructed. Unfolding and refolding of Cyt b5 induced by methanol was investigated by means of the UV-visible spectrum, circular dichroism, and the fluorescence spectrum. Methanol denaturation of Cyt b5 is a cooperative process, that is, the heme group dissociates from the heme pocket accompanied by unfolding of the polypeptide chain both in the secondary and tertiary structures. Substitution of proline by valine reduces the stability of the mutant under methanol denaturation. The unfolding process is almost reversible by dilution. During refolding, the denatured polypeptide must be folded to a more ordered structure prior to the heme capture. Pro40 plays an important role in modulating the protein's stability. The role of tyrosine in the unfolding and refolding of Cyt b5 is evaluated for the first time. A mechanism of methanol denaturation is also proposed.
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- Z Q Wang
- Chemistry Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Viana E, da Silva CH, Tabak M, Imasato H, Garratt R. A molecular model for the d chain of the giant haemoglobin from Lumbricus terrestris and its implications for subunit assembly. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1383:130-42. [PMID: 9546054 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(97)00194-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A structural model for the monomeric d chain of the giant haemoglobin from Lumbricus terrestris is described. Based on the crystal structures of other globins, the model provides evidence for the existence of a novel tryptophan-haem interaction. The observation that all three tryptophans are buried within the hydrophobic core is consistent with fluorescence data on the isolated monomer and the intact molecule. The model has also been used to predict the probable arrangement of the abcd tetramer as being similar to that observed in the clam Hb II structure. Such predictions allow the identification of four residues of particular importance in stabilising one of the subunit-subunit interfaces: Arg48, Arg97, His89 and Gln93. The latter two may be of special importance in the mediation of cooperative effects within the tetramer and indeed the intact molecule.
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- E Viana
- Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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Probing the relation between protein structure and intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence using superrepressor mutants of thetrp repressor. J Fluoresc 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02758230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Tsaprailis G, Chan DW, English AM. Conformational states in denaturants of cytochrome c and horseradish peroxidases examined by fluorescence and circular dichroism. Biochemistry 1998; 37:2004-16. [PMID: 9485327 DOI: 10.1021/bi971032a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Steady-state fluorescence and circular dichroism (CD) were used to examine the unfolding in denaturants of recombinant cytochrome c peroxidase [CCP(MI)] and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in their ferric forms. CCP(MI) unfolds in urea and in guanidine hydrochloride (GdHCl) at pH 7.0, while HRP loses its secondary structure only in the presence of GdHCl. CCP(MI) unfolds in urea by two distinct steps as monitored by fluorescence, but the loss of its secondary structure as monitored by UV/CD occurs in a single step between 3.4 and 5 M urea and 1.5 and 2.5 M GdHCl. The localized changes detected by fluorescence involve the CCP(MI) heme cavity since the Soret maximum red-shifts from 408 to 416 nm, and the heme CD changes examined in urea are biphasic. The polypeptide of HRP also loses secondary structure in a single step between 1.2 and 2.7 M GdHCl as monitored by UV/CD, and a fluorescence-monitored transition involving conformational change in the Trp117-containing loop occurs above 4 M GdHCl. Free energies of denaturation extrapolated to 0 M denaturant (delta Gd,aq) of approximately 6 and approximately 4 kcal/mol were calculated for CCP(MI) and HRP, respectively, from the UV/CD data. The refolding mechanisms of the two peroxidases differ since heme capture in CCP(MI) is synchronous with refolding while apoHRP captures heme after refolding. Thus, the denatured form of apoHRP does not recognize heme and has to correctly refold prior to heme capture. The half-life for unfolding of native HRP in 6 M GdHCl is slow (519 s) compared to that for CCP(MI) (14.3 s), indicating that HRP is kinetically much more stable than CCP(MI). Treatment with EDTA and DTT greatly destabilizes HRP, and unfolding in 4 M GdHCl occurs with t1/2 = 0.42 s.
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- G Tsaprailis
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Khan KK, Mazumdar S, Modi S, Sutcliffe M, Roberts GC, Mitra S. Steady-state and picosecond-time-resolved fluorescence studies on the recombinant heme domain of Bacillus megaterium cytochrome P-450. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 244:361-70. [PMID: 9119001 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00361.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The conformational changes associated with the interaction of sodium laurate with the recombinant heme domain for cytochrome P-450BM3 have been investigated by steady-state and picosecond-time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The steady-state quenching experiments show that while all the five tryptophan residues are accessible to acrylamide in the free enzyme as well as the enzyme x substrate complex, the number of tryptophan residues accessible to ionic quenchers decreases on interaction of the substrate with the enzyme. This indicates that some of the tryptophan residues move towards the core of the protein on interaction with the substrate. The number of tryptophan residues accessible to the solvent as determined by the calculation of the solvent-accessible area for the free enzyme agrees with the values obtained by the quenching experiments. The time-resolved fluorescence studies carried out by means of the time-correlated single-photon-counting technique show that the fluorescence-decay curve is best fitted to a three-exponential model (0.2, 1.0 and 5.4 ns). Lifetime distributions, as recovered by the maximum-entropy method, agree with the discrete exponential model. The binding of the substrate does not lead to any significant change in the lifetime components of the enzyme, indicating that the tryptophan residues are possibly away from the substrate-binding domain. The decay-associated emission spectra and the magnitudes of amplitude of different lifetimes indicate that the shortest lifetime component (tau1) originates from the three tryptophan residues that are completely or partially accessible to the solvent, and tau2 originates from the tryptophan residues that are buried in the core of the enzyme and not accessible to the solvent. X-ray crystallographic data and solvent-acessible-area calculations have been used to identify these residues.
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- K K Khan
- Chemical Physics Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
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Gryczynski Z, Beretta S, Lubkowski J, Razynska A, Gryczynski I, Bucci E. Time-resolved fluorescence of hemoglobin species. Biophys Chem 1997; 64:81-91. [PMID: 9127940 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(96)02224-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We used time-resolved fluorescence in the pico- to nanosecond time range to monitor the presence of tetramers, dimers and monomers in carbonmonoxyhemoglobin (COHb) solutions and to investigate how their distributions change under different experimental conditions. Comparison of fluorescence lifetime computed from the atomic coordinates of COHb (Vasquez et al., 1996) with those experimentally measured allowed identification of molecular species present in the hemoglobin solution. It was possible to observe modification of the distribution of tetramers, dimers, monomers and species with disordered hemes produced by different experimental conditions. Protein concentration affected the detectable lifetimes, indicating increasing amounts of dimers and monomers at low protein concentrations, while the amount of inverted hemes was not modified. Titration with up to 1 M NaCl modified only the extent of dissociation of hemoglobin into dimers, without affecting heme inversion and monomer formation. Hyperbaric pressure increased the amounts of dimers and monomers. This is the first time that monomeric subunits of hemoglobin have been detected at neutral pH in the normal system.
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- Z Gryczynski
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore 21201, USA
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- Z Gryczynski
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore 21201, USA
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Gryczynski Z, Lubkowski J, Bucci E. Heme-protein interactions in horse heart myoglobin at neutral pH and exposed to acid investigated by time-resolved fluorescence in the pico- to nanosecond time range. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:19232-7. [PMID: 7642594 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.33.19232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We measured the steady state and time-resolved emission intensity decay of horse heart myoglobin at various pH values from neutral to pH 4.42. The steady state intensity was reversibly increased with the decreasing pH, almost doubling at pH 4.5. Frequency domain data for emission decay were analyzed separately for each pH and simultaneously by global analyses. The results indicated the presence of four lifetime components, conserved throughout the pH titrations at 40, 116, 1363, and 4822 ps, respectively. The titration affected only their fractional intensities. Assignments of the lifetimes were based on the Förster theory of radiationless dipole-dipole interaction and the atomic coordinates of the system. We assigned the two shorter lifetimes to Trp-14 and Trp-7, respectively, in the presence of normal hemes. The 1363-ps lifetime was assigned to Trp-7 with inverted hemes (i.e. rotated 180 degrees around the alpha-gamma-meso axis of the porphyrin ring). The 4822-ns lifetime was assigned to reversibly heme-dissociated myoglobin. Lorentzian lifetime distributions were narrow for the lifetimes at 40, 116, and 4822 ps, indicating a homogeneous protein structure. Instead the lifetime at 1363 ns had a broad, pH-independent distribution consistent with small angle wobblings of inverted hemes inside the heme pocket. These analyses revealed the presence of three species originating from heme-protein interactions: the native form of crystalline myoglobin, the conformation with disorder hemes, and the reversibly dissociated heme-free myoglobin. There was increased heme inversion and heme dissociability at lower pH, consistent with the titration of the proximal and distal histidines inside the heme pocket.
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- Z Gryczynski
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Maryland Medical School at Baltimore 21201, USA
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Time-resolved fluorescence study of the single tryptophan in thiocyanate and azide derivatives of horseradish peroxidase: Implication for apH-induced conformational change in the heme cavity. J CHEM SCI 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02840806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Das TK, Mazumdar S. pH-induced conformational perturbation in horseradish peroxidase. Picosecond tryptophan fluorescence studies on native and cyanide-modified enzymes. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 227:823-8. [PMID: 7867643 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.tb20207.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The fluorescence-decay characteristics of the single tryptophan present in horseradish peroxidase (HRP) have been studied using dye-laser pulses and single-photon counting techniques. The decay was found to be dominated by a picosecond-lifetime component, with small contributions from two other lifetime components in the nanosecond range. The distance of the tryptophan residue was estimated from the fluorescence-energy transfer to the heme moiety using Förster's theory. The tryptophan residue was found to be approximately 1.2 nm from the heme moiety at neutral pH. Detailed analysis of the fluorescence-decay profiles using the maximum-entropy method (MEM) has been carried out. The results of the MEM analysis also showed a maximum amplitude peak at approximately 45 ps (at pH approximately 7) with a very small (< 5%) contribution from two other components. Similar results were obtained with the cyanide derivative of the enzyme (HRPCN) where the major lifetime component was found to be 58 ps at neutral pH. The picosecond component of fluorescence lifetimes of native HRP as well as of HRPCN were found to increase with decrease in pH in the range pH 6-3.5. Moreover, the native enzyme showed significant increase in the magnitude of this fast lifetime component at pH above 8. Such increase in the major lifetime component possibly indicated a conformational perturbation caused by pH change in the enzyme. However, the pH dependence of HRPCN, which is devoid of alkaline transition, showed that the shortest lifetime component remains almost unchanged over the pH range 6-11. This result showed that the alkaline transition in native HRP is associated with a structural change in the distal region of the heme center, which is absent in the cyanide-ligated enzyme. The results have been discussed with respect to understanding the pH-induced effects associated with salt bridge and hydrogen-bonding network in HRP.
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- T K Das
- Chemical Physics Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
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Jiskoot W, Hlady V, Naleway JJ, Herron JN. Application of fluorescence spectroscopy for determining the structure and function of proteins. PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 1995; 7:1-63. [PMID: 8564015 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1079-0_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- W Jiskoot
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
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Das TK, Mazumdar S. Conformational change due to reduction of cytochrome-c oxidase in lauryl maltoside: picosecond time-resolved tryptophan fluorescence studies on the native and heat modified enzyme. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1209:227-37. [PMID: 7811695 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)90189-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Detailed fluorescence studies on bovine heart cytochrome-c oxidase (CcO) has been carried out in lauryl maltoside solution. Steady-state fluorescence of the tryptophan residues of the enzyme showed that the fluorophores are embedded deep inside the hydrophobic protein cavity. Time resolved studies of tryptophan fluorescence of native and heat treated CcO have been carried out in both reduced and oxidised forms using synchronously pumped pulsed picosecond dye laser and single photon counting technique. Decay of the tryptophan fluorescence have been fitted using discrete four exponential model. Amplitude distribution of lifetimes also showed four distinct regions in the analysis of the decay profiles by maximum entropy method (MEM). The results indicate that controlled heat treatment of CcO affects the conformation of the enzyme near the active centers which makes it incapable of active proton pumping while the electron transfer property is still conserved. Reduction of the native CcO is associated with a large conformation change in lauryl maltoside near the active centers which is not observed in case of CcO encapsulated in vesicles. Reduction of the heat treated enzyme was found to have a conformation different from the reduced native CcO.
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- T K Das
- Chemical Physics Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Bombay, India
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Willis KJ, Neugebauer W, Sikorska M, Szabo AG. Probing alpha-helical secondary structure at a specific site in model peptides via restriction of tryptophan side-chain rotamer conformation. Biophys J 1994; 66:1623-30. [PMID: 8061211 PMCID: PMC1275882 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(94)80954-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The relationship between alpha-helical secondary structure and the fluorescence properties of an intrinsic tryptophan residue were investigated. A monomeric alpha-helix forming peptide and a dimeric coiled-coil forming peptide containing a central tryptophan residue were synthesized. The fluorescence parameters of the tryptophan residue were determined for these model systems at a range of fractional alpha-helical contents. The steady-state emission maximum was independent of the fractional alpha-helical content. A minimum of three exponential decay times was required to fully describe the time-resolved fluorescence data. Changes were observed in the decay times and more significantly, in their relative contributions that could be correlated with alpha-helix content. The results were also shown to be consistent with a model in which the decay times were independent of both alpha-helix content and emission wavelength. In this model the relative contributions of the decay time components were directly proportional to the alpha-helix content. Data were also analyzed according to a continuous distribution of exponential decay time model, employing global analysis techniques. The recovered distributions had "widths" that were both poorly defined and independent of peptide conformation. We propose that the three decay times are associated with the three ground-state chi 1 rotamers of the tryptophan residue and that the changes in the relative contributions of the decay times are the result of conformational constraints, imposed by the alpha-helical main-chain, on the chi 1 rotamer populations.
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- K J Willis
- Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Gryczynski Z, Fronticelli C, Tenenholz T, Bucci E. Effect of disordered hemes on energy transfer rates between tryptophans and heme in myoglobin. Biophys J 1993; 65:1951-8. [PMID: 8298024 PMCID: PMC1225930 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(93)81266-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Our recent linear dichroism study of heme transitions (Gryczynski, Z., E. Bucci, and J. Kusba. 1993. Photochem. Photobiology. in press) indicate that heme cannot be considered a planar oscillator when it acts as an acceptor of radiationless excitation energy transfer from tryptophan. The linear nature of the heme absorption transition moment in the near-UV region implies a strong dependence of the transfer rate factors on the relative angular position of the heme and tryptophan, i.e., on the kappa 2 orientation parameter of the Förster equation. Using the atomic coordinates of SW myoglobin we have estimated the variation of kappa 2 parameter as a function of the heme absorption transition moment direction. The simulations proved that transfer is very efficient and anticipates lifetimes in the picosecond range. Also, they showed that transfer is very sensitive to rotations of the heme around its alpha-gamma-meso-axis, which may reduce the efficiency of transfer to almost zero values, producing lifetimes very similar to those of free tryptophan, in the nanosecond range. Comparisons between the lifetime values reported in the literature and those here estimated suggest that natural heme disorder, in which heme is rotated 180 degrees around its meso axis, is at the origin of the nanosecond lifetimes found in myoglobin systems.
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- Z Gryczynski
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Maryland at Baltimore 21201
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Gryczynski Z, Tenenholz T, Bucci E. Rates of energy transfer between tryptophans and hemes in hemoglobin, assuming that the heme is a planar oscillator. Biophys J 1992; 63:648-53. [PMID: 1420905 PMCID: PMC1262197 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(92)81657-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Using the Förster equations we have estimated the rate of energy transfer from tryptophans to hemes in hemoglobin. Assuming an isotropic distribution of the transition moments of the heme in the plane of the porphyrin, we computed the orientation factors and the consequent transfer rates from the crystallographic coordinates of human oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin. It appears that the orientation factors do not play a limiting role in regulating the energy transfer and that the rates are controlled almost exclusively by the intrasubunit separations between tryptophans and hemes. In intact hemoglobin tetramers the intrasubunit separations are such as to reduce lifetimes to 5 and 15 ps/ns of tryptophan lifetime. Lifetimes of several hundred picoseconds would be allowed by the intersubunit separations, but intersubunits transfer becomes important only when one heme per tetramer is absent or does not accept transfer. If more than one heme per tetramer is absent lifetimes of more than 1 ns would appear.
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- Z Gryczynski
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201
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- Z Bajzer
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic/Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905
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Prendergast FG. Time-resolved fluorescence techniques: methods and applications in biology. Curr Opin Struct Biol 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0959-440x(91)90105-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Maximum likelihood method for the analysis of time-resolved fluorescence decay curves. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00450560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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