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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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Kristinsson HG, Hultin HO. Changes in conformation and subunit assembly of cod myosin at low and high pH and after subsequent refolding. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2003; 51:7187-7196. [PMID: 14611192 DOI: 10.1021/jf026193m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Conformational and structural changes of cod myosin at pH 2.5 and 11 and after subsequent pH readjustment to pH 7.5 were studied. Results suggest that on acid unfolding, the myosin rod may fully dissociate due to electrostatic repulsion within the coiled coil, while it does not dissociate at alkaline pH. Both pHs led to significant conformational changes in the globular head fraction of the myosin heavy chains, suggesting that it takes on a molten globular configuration. A large part of the myosin light chains are lost on both pH treatments. On pH readjustment to neutrality, the heavy chains take on a structural form similar to the native state with the coiled-coil rod reassociating from acid pH while leaving the globular head less packed, more hydrophobic and structurally less stable. The irreversible change brought about in the globular head region leads to the failure of light chains to reassemble onto it, a drastic loss in ATPase activity, and more exposure of reactive thiol groups. The acid and alkali processes therefore lead to substantial changes in the globular part of the myosin molecule and perhaps more importantly to different molecular changes in myosin, depending on which pH treatment is employed.
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- Hordur G Kristinsson
- Laboratory of Aquatic Food Biomolecular Research, Aquatic Food Products Program, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
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Birch DJS, Holmes AS, Gilchrist JR, Imhof RE, Alawi SMA, Nadolski B. A multiplexed single-photon instrument for routine measurement of time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1088/0022-3735/20/4/031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Laitinen E, Salonen K, Harju T. Solvation dynamics study of 4‐amino‐N‐methyl‐phthalimide in n‐alcohol solutions. J Chem Phys 1996. [DOI: 10.1063/1.471279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We have carried out a time-resolved fluorescence study of the single tryptophanyl residue (Trp-192) of bovine cardiac Tnl (CTnl). With excitation at 300 nm, the intensity decay was resolved into three components by a nonlinear least-squares analysis with lifetimes of 0.60, 2.22, and 4.75 ns. The corresponding fractional amplitudes were 0.27, 0.50, and 0.23, respectively. These decay parameters were not sensitive to complexation of CTnl with cardiac troponin C (CTnC), and magnesium and calcium had no significant effect on the decay parameters. After incubation with 3':5'-cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, the intensity decay of CTnl required a fourth exponential term for satisfactory fitting with lifetimes of 0.11, 0.81, 1.95, and 6.63 ns and fractional amplitudes of 0.06, 0.37, 0.27, and 0.29, respectively. When bound to CTnC, the intensity decay of phosphorylated CTnl (p-CTnl) also required four exponential terms for satisfactory fitting, but the longest lifetime increased by a factor of 1.7. The decay parameters obtained from the complex formed between p-CTnl and CTnC were not sensitive to either magnesium or calcium. The anisotropy decay was resolved into two components with rotational correlation times of 0.90 and 23.48 ns. Phosphorylation resulted in a decrease of the long correlation time to 14.61 ns. The anisotropy values recovered at zero time suggest that the side chain of the Trp-192 had considerable subnanosecond motional freedom not resolved in these experiments. Within the CTnl.CTnC complex, the unresolved fast motions appeared sensitive to calcium binding to the calcium-specific site of CTnC. The observed emission heterogeneity is discussed in terms of possible excited-state interactions in conjunction with the predicted secondary structure of CTnl. The loss of molecular asymmetry of cardiac troponin I induced by phosphorylation as demonstrated in this work may be related to the known physiological effect of beta-agonists on cardiac contractility.
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- R Liao
- Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294-2041
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Lopez-Lacomba JL, Guzman M, Cortijo M, Mateo PL, Aguirre R, Harvey SC, Cheung HC. Differential scanning calorimetric study of the thermal unfolding of myosin rod, light meromyosin, and subfragment 2. Biopolymers 1989; 28:2143-59. [PMID: 2690963 DOI: 10.1002/bip.360281208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The thermal unfolding of myosin rod, light meromyosin (LMM), and myosin subfragment 2 (S-2) was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) over the pH range of 6.5-9.0 in 0.5M KCl and either 0.20 M sodium phosphate or 0.15M sodium pyrophosphate. Two rod samples were examined: one was purified by Sephadex G-200 without prior denaturation (native rod), and the other was purified by a cycle of denaturation-renaturation followed by Sephacryl S-200 chromatography (renatured rod). There were clearly distinguishable differences in the calorimetric behavior of these two samples. At pH 7.0 in phosphate the DSC curves of native rod were deconvoluted into six endothermic two-state transitions with melting temperatures in the range of 46-67 degrees C and a total enthalpy of 4346 kJ/mol. Under identical conditions the melting profile of LMM was resolved into five endothermic peaks with transition temperatures in the range of 45-66 degrees C, and the thermal profile of long S-2 was resolved into two endotherms, 46 and 57 degrees C. Transition 4 observed with native rod was present in the deconvoluted DSC curve for long S-2, but absent in the DSC curve for LMM. This transition was identified with the high-temperature transition detected with long S-2 and attributed to the melting of the coiled-coil alpha-helical segment of subfragment 2 (short S-2). The low-temperature transition of long S-2 was attributed to the unfolding of the hinge region. The smallest transition temperatures observed for all three fragments were 45-46 degrees C. It is suggested that the most unstable domain in rod (domain 1) responsible for the 46 degrees C transition includes both the hinge region, which is the C-terminal segment of long S-2, and a short N-terminal segment of LMM. This domain, accounting for 21% of the rod structure, contains the S-2/LMM junction, and upon proteolytic cleavage yields the C-terminal and N-terminal ends of long S-2 and LMM, respectively. Over the pH range of 6.5-7.5, the observed specific heat of denaturation of rod was approximately equal to the sum of the specific heats of LMM and S-2. This finding provides an additional argument for the existence of independent domains in myosin rod.
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Holzwarth AR. Applications of ultrafast laser spectroscopy for the study of biological systems. Q Rev Biophys 1989; 22:239-326. [PMID: 2695961 DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500002985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The discovery of mode-locked laser operation now nearly two decades ago has started a development which enables researchers to probe the dynamics of ultrafast physical and chemical processes at the molecular level on shorter and shorter time scales. Naturally the first applications were in the fields of photophysics and photochemistry where it was then possible for the first time to probe electronic and vibrational relaxation processes on a sub-nanosecond timescale. The development went from lasers producing pulses of many picoseconds to the shortest pulses which are at present just a few femtoseconds long. Soon after their discovery ultrashort pulses were applied also to biological systems which has revealed a wealth of information contributing to our understanding of a broadrange of biological processes on the molecular level.It is the aim of this review to discuss the recent advances and point out some future trends in the study of ultrafast processes in biological systems using laser techniques. The emphasis will be mainly on new results obtained during the last 5 or 6 years. The term ultrafast means that I shall restrict myself to sub-nanosecond processes with a few exceptions.
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- A R Holzwarth
- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim/Ruhr, FRG
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Ying R, Peters MH. Torque constraints for modeling the behavior of rigid and semirigid macromolecules. J Chem Phys 1989. [DOI: 10.1063/1.457204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Visser AJ, van Hoek A, O'Kane DJ, Lee J. Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of lumazine protein from Photobacterium phosphoreum using synchrotron radiation. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 1989; 17:75-85. [PMID: 2767000 DOI: 10.1007/bf00257105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Time-resolved fluorescence on lumazine protein from Photobacterium phosphoreum was performed with synchrotron radiation as a source of continuously tunable excitation. The experiments yielded structural and dynamic details from which two aspects became apparent. From fluorescence anisotropy decay monitoring of lumazine fluorescence with different excitation wavelengths, the average correlation times were shown to change, which must indicate the presence of anistropic motion of the protein. A similar study with 7-oxolumazine as the fluorescent ligand led to comparable results. The other remarkable observation dealt with the buildup of acceptor fluorescence, also observed with 7-oxolumazine although much less pronounced, which is caused by the finite energy transfer process between the single donor tryptophan and the energy accepting lumazine derivatives. Global analytical approaches in data analysis were used to yield realistic correlation times and reciprocal transfer rate constants. It was found that the tryptophan residue has a large motional freedom as also reported previously for this protein and for the related protein from P. leiognathi (Lee et al. 1985; Kulinski et al. 1987). The average distance between the tryptophan residue and the ligand donor-acceptor couple has been determined to be 2.7 nm for the same donor and two different acceptors.
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- A J Visser
- Department of Biochemistry, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Jovin TM, Vaz WL. Rotational and translational diffusion in membranes measured by fluorescence and phosphorescence methods. Methods Enzymol 1989; 172:471-513. [PMID: 2747540 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(89)72030-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Bucci E, Steiner RF. Anisotropy decay of fluorescence as an experimental approach to protein dynamics. Biophys Chem 1988; 30:199-224. [PMID: 3061490 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(88)85017-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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This minireview makes an initial assessment of the progress made using anisotropy decay measurements for investigating the conformational changes and molecular dynamics in soluble systems. A critical analysis of available data is presented. The anisotropy decays of the tryptophan fluorescence of staphylococcal nuclease, adrenocorticotropin, melittin and of labeled transfer RNA were studied for investigating the functional conformational changes of these systems. The emissions of variously labeled immunoglobulins have been used to elucidate the conformations of these proteins before and after the binding of specific antibodies. Labeled myosin and its fragments have given information on the functional motions of the protein domains. The anisotropy decays of labeled and natural hemoglobin systems have been utilized for exploring the allosteric behavior of these molecules. The data suggest a wide applicability of this technique to the study of protein dynamics and conformational changes of macromolecules.
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- E Bucci
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201
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Cardinaud R, Bernengo JC. Electric birefringence study of rabbit skeletal myosin subfragments HMM, LMM, and rod in solution. Biophys J 1985; 48:751-63. [PMID: 4074835 PMCID: PMC1329400 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(85)83833-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Electric birefringence measurements and depolarized light scattering experiments were performed with HMM, LMM, and rod, the three fragments of myosin, under conditions (0.3 M KCl, 0.02 M PO4, pH 7.3) the medium currently used for biochemical assays of myosin in its native state as well as of its subfragments. The comparison of myosin and rod relaxation times (17.2 and 22.8 microseconds, respectively) suggests that the average bend angle in the tail is sharper in intact myosin (90 degrees) whereas rod, when detached from the heads, is a more elongated species with an average bend angle of 120-135 degrees. The LMM relaxation time (6.4 microseconds) is consistent with a rigid linear stick model of length 78 nm. Flexibility in myosin tail is thus confirmed as located in the HMM-LMM hinge. LMM and rod did not exhibit any significant variation of their apparent relaxation times with concentration and the decay curves were best fitted by a single exponential, evidence that the concentration of parallel staggered dimers was negligible in the concentration range studied here (0-7 g/l). This observation lends support to previous results obtained with myosin. Respective HMM, LMM, and rod molecular weights and homogeneity as evaluated by SDS-PAGE analysis were correlated to the Kerr constants of their solutions. Large variations in LMM Kerr constants could be related to the loss of a COOH-terminal peptide on prolonged chymotryptic digestion. Electric birefringence combined with depolarized light scattering is presented as a potential method for net charge distribution studies.
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Highsmith S, Eden D. Transient electrical birefringence characterization of heavy meromyosin. Biochemistry 1985; 24:4917-24. [PMID: 3907694 DOI: 10.1021/bi00339a029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Heavy meromyosin (HMM) and myosin subfragment 1 (S1) were prepared from myosin by using low concentrations of alpha-chymotrypsin. The light chain distribution in HMM was identical with that of myosin, within experimental error, when analyzed on 12% polyacrylamide gels after electrophoresis. Specific birefringences and birefringence decay times were measured by transient electrical birefringence in 5 mM KCl, 5 mM tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (pH 7), and 1 mM MgCl2 at 4 degrees C under gentle conditions that reduced the CaATPase activity by less than 10%. For solutions of HMM, by use of electric field pulses shorter than 0.5 microseconds, the birefringence decay signal from the S1 portions of HMM could be resolved and the rotational motions of the S1 moieties observed directly. The rotation relaxation time, adjusted to 20 degrees C, was 0.34 microseconds; this is in quantitative agreement with previous hydrodynamic results obtained by using covalently attached probes. The assignment of the fast decay time obtained with HMM to the S1 portions was confirmed by birefringence decay measurements on free S1, for which the relaxation time was 0.13 microseconds, corrected to 20 degrees C. The specific birefringences for S1 and HMM, respectively, were 0.37 X 10(-6) and 12.8 X 10(-6) (cm/statvolt)2. Thus, for much longer electric field pulses, the signal from HMM is due almost entirely to its subfragment 2 (S2) portion, and its rotational dynamics can also be monitored directly by using electrical birefringence. The decay of the signal from the S2 portion could be adequately fit without evoking bending of the S2 portion of HMM other than at its junction with S1.
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Pliszka B, Lu RC. Reactivities of thiols in myosin rod: effect of magnesium and ionic strength. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1985; 830:304-12. [PMID: 4027253 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(85)90287-0] [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: 01/08/2023]
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There are six cysteines in each chain of myosin rod of rabbit skeletal muscle: three are in the S-2 portion, at residues 66, 108 and 410 (Lu, R.C. and Lehrer, S. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 5975-5981). The other three are in the light meromyosin portion, assigned at residues 572, 600 and 770 on the basis of homology between the amino acid sequence in the vicinity of these thiols and that of the rod of nematode myosin (McLachlan, A.D. and Karn, J. (1982) Nature 299, 226-231). Since the thiols are distributed in different regions of the rod, measuring their reactivities under various conditions may provide information on the conformations of these regions. Myosin rod was carboxymethylated with radioactive iodoacetic acid under various conditions. The cysteine-containing peptides were isolated using HPLC from the tryptic digests, and the radioactivity incorporated into each thiol was measured. In the denatured state all six thiols were equally reactive. In the native state, all thiols have low reactivity, the reactivity of Cys-108 or -410 is only 0.1% of that in the denatured state, Cys-600 exhibited the highest reactivity, about 20-times that of Cys-410; Cys-66, -572 and -770 had 2-4-times that of Cys-410. When the rods formed filaments, the reactivities of all cysteines further decreased: Cys-66, -108 and -770 were reduced to 50%, while Cys-410, -572 and -600, located in the middle of the rod, were reduced to 20-30% of their reactivities in the monomeric form. In the presence of Mg2+ the reactivity of Cys-108 increased by 20%, whereas Cys-572 decreased by 50%. The results are consistent with the view that metal ions affect the conformation of the rod. This may play a role in the mechanism of filament formation and the movement of crossbridges.
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Stafford WF. Effect of various anions on the stability of the coiled coil of skeletal muscle myosin. Biochemistry 1985; 24:3314-21. [PMID: 4027243 DOI: 10.1021/bi00334a036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The stability of skeletal myosin rod was studied by following the dependence of both papain digestion kinetics and helix-coil transition temperatures on the concentration of neutral salts. The rate of papain-catalyzed digestion of rod to form subfragment 2 and light meromyosin was strongly dependent on chloride concentration but essentially independent of acetate concentration up to 2.0 M. The rod exhibited a biphasic melting curve in 0.6 M NaCl, 5 mM phosphate, and 0.1 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), pH 7.3, with transitions at 45 and 53 degrees C. In 0.6 M CH3COONa, 5 mM phosphate, and 0.1 mM EDTA, pH 7.3, the transitions occurred at 50 and 58 degrees C, respectively. Transition temperatures were obtained with a novel curve-fitting method. The effect of increasing chloride ion concentration on melting profiles was 2-fold. Below 0.6 M salt, the two transition temperatures, Tm,1 and Tm,2, depended on salt concentration such that increasing NaCl concentration caused a small stabilization of the helix while increasing acetate concentration caused the helix to become markedly more stable. Between 0.6 and 1.0 M, variation of chloride concentration had almost no effect on the thermal stability of the rod while increasing acetate concentration increased its stability considerably. Above 1.0 M NaCl, the melting profiles became broad with a third transition being observed (e.g., at 3.0 M, Tm,3 = 38 degrees C), indicating the existence of a region which has a tendency to be destabilized by chloride. The third transition was not observed at comparable concentrations of acetate. This effect of chloride was not expected on the basis of its position in the Hofmeister series.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Segmental flexibility of the C1q subcomponent of human complement and its possible role in the immune response. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)83661-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lu RC, Wong A. The amino acid sequence and stability predictions of the hinge region in myosin subfragment 2. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)83643-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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We discuss the analysis of time-correlated single photon counting measurements of fluorescence anisotropy. Particular attention was paid to the statistical properties of the data. The methods used previously to analyze these experiments were examined and a new method was proposed in which parallel- and perpendicular-polarized fluorescence curves were fit simultaneously. The new method takes full advantage of the statistical properties of the measured curves; and, in some cases, it is shown to be more sensitive than other methods to systematic errors present in the data. Examples were presented using experimental and simulated data. The influence of fitting range on extracted parameters and statistical criteria for evaluating the quality of fits are also discussed.
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Matsubara I, Goldman YE, Simmons RM. Changes in the lateral filament spacing of skinned muscle fibres when cross-bridges attach. J Mol Biol 1984; 173:15-33. [PMID: 6608003 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(84)90401-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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When a skinned fibre prepared from frog skeletal muscle goes from the relaxed to the rigor state at a sarcomere length of about 2.2 micron, the 1, 0 transverse spacing of the filament lattice, measured by X-ray diffraction, decreases by about 11%. In measurements at various sarcomere lengths, the decrease in the spacing was approximately proportional to the degree of overlap between the thick and thin filaments. This suggests that the shrinkage of the lattice is caused by a lateral force produced by cross-bridges. In order to estimate the magnitude of the lateral force, the decrease of spacing between relaxed and rigor states was compared with the shrinkage caused osmotically by adding a high molecular weight polymer, polyvinylpyrrolidone, to the bathing solution. The results indicate that the lateral force produced per unit length of thick filament in the overlap zone is of the same order of magnitude as the axially directed force produced during maximum isometric contraction (10(-10) to 10(-9) N/micron). Experiments in the presence of a high concentration of polyvinylpyrrolidone (100 g/l) show that when the lattice spacing is decreased osmotically beyond a certain value, the lateral force produced when the fibre goes into rigor changes its direction, causing the lattice to swell. This result can be explained by assuming that there is an optimum interfilament spacing at which the cross-bridges produce no lateral force. At other spacings, the lateral force tends to displace the filament lattice toward that optimum value.
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Eftink M. Quenching-resolved emission anisotropy studies with single and multitryptophan-containing proteins. Biophys J 1983; 43:323-34. [PMID: 6354292 PMCID: PMC1329301 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(83)84356-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Measurements of the anisotropy of protein fluorescence as a function of an added collisional quencher, such as acrylamide, are used to construct Perrin plots. For single tryptophan containing proteins, such plots yield an apparent rotational correlation time for the depolarization process, which, in most cases, is approximately the value expected for Brownian rotation of the entire protein. Apparent limiting fluorescence anisotropy values, which range from 0.20 to 0.32 for the proteins studied, are also obtained from the Perrin plots. The lower values for the limiting anisotropy found for some proteins are interpreted as indicating the existence of relatively rapid, limited (within a cone of angle 0 degrees--30 degrees) motion of the tryptophan side chains that is independent of the overall rotation of the protein. Examples of the use of this fluorescence technique to study protein conformational changes are presented, including the monomer in equilibrium dimer equilibrium of beta-lactoglobulin, the monomer in equilibrium tetramer equilibrium of melittin, the N in equilibrium F transition of human serum albumin, and the induced change in the conformation of cod parvalbumin caused by the removal of Ca+2. Because multitryptophan-containing proteins have certain tryptophans that are accessible to solute quencher and others that are inaccessible, this method can be used to determine the steady state anisotropy of each class of tryptophan residues.
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Yeh Y, Pinsky BG. Optical polarization properties of the diffraction spectra from single fibers of skeletal muscle. Biophys J 1983; 42:83-90. [PMID: 6601501 PMCID: PMC1329205 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(83)84371-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The diffraction spectra of laser light from single fibers of skeletal muscle exhibit a large degree of optical depolarization. When the linearly polarized incident laser source is oriented at polarization angles between 0 less than theta less than pi/2 rad with respect to the fiber axis, the diffracted light is elliptically polarized. These results show that the phase angle of the ellipse rotates by as much as 20 degrees when the fiber is stretched from 2.4 to 3.8 microns. To further ascertain that the observed phenomenon is diffraction related, an experiment monitoring the spectra of scattered light in between diffraction orders showed this signal to be significantly more linearly polarized. These results suggest that the degree of elliptical polarization of the diffraction spectra is a sensitive probe of A-band dynamics, including changes of the anisotropic S-2 elements.
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Tsong TY, Himmelfarb S, Harrington WF. Stability and melting kinetics of structural domains in the myosin rod. J Mol Biol 1983; 164:431-50. [PMID: 6341604 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(83)90060-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The thermal stability and melting kinetics of the alpha-helical conformation within several regions of the rabbit myosin rod have been investigated. Cyanogen bromide cleavage of long myosin subfragment-2 produced one coiled-coil alpha-helical fragment corresponding to short subfragment-2 with molecular weight 90,000 (Mr = 45,000) and two fragments from the hinge region with molecular weights of 32,000 to 34,000 (Mr = 16,000 to 17,000) and 24,000 to 26,000 (Mr = 12,000 to 13,000). Optical rotation melting experiments and temperature-jump kinetic studies of long subfragment-2 and its cyanogen bromide fragments show that the hinge and the short subfragment-2 domains melt as quasi-independent co-operative units. The alpha-helical structure within the hinge has an appreciably lower thermal stability than the flanking short subfragment-2 and light meromyosin regions of the myosin rod. Two relaxation processes for helix-melting, one in the submillisecond range (tau f) and the other in the millisecond range (tau s), are observed in the light meromyosin and short subfragment-2 regions of the rod, but melting in the hinge domain is dominated by the fast (tau f) process. Results suggest that the hinge domain of the subfragment-2 link may be the locus of force generation in a cycling cross-bridge.
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Bernengo JC, Cardinaud R. State of myosin in solution. Electric birefringence and dynamic light-scattering studies. J Mol Biol 1982; 159:501-17. [PMID: 6762443 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(82)90298-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Highsmith S. The dynamics of myosin and actin in solution are compatible with the mechanical features of the cross-bridge hypothesis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1981; 639:31-9. [PMID: 7030396 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4173(81)90003-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Liu BM, Cheung HC, Mestecky J. Nanosecond fluorescence spectroscopy of human immunoglobulin A. Biochemistry 1981; 20:1997-203. [PMID: 7225369 DOI: 10.1021/bi00510a040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The solution properties of five samples of human immunoglobulin A (IgA) were investigated with covalent and hydrophobic fluorescence probes. The immunoglobulins included a secretory IgA and four myeloma proteins of both IgA1 and IgA2 subclasses in the monomeric and dimeric forms. The probe 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonate (ANS) was found to bind to both monomeric and dimeric IgA with comparable affinity. Pyrenesulfonyl chloride covalently linked to the proteins exhibited multiexponential decays. The decay of ANS complexed to the same proteins showed similar multiple exponential character. The rotational motions of the immunoglobulins were investigated by the nanosecond fluorescence anisotropy decay method. The decay of both probes attached to these proteins was characterized by a fast component followed by a slow component. The rapid component was in the range 14-26 ns for th covalent conjugates and 26-41 ns for the ANS complexes. These results are interpreted in terms of a segmental motion arising from a mass in the range 60 000-100 000 daltons, If the decrease in the anisotropy value at long times is taken as a measure of restricted diffusion of the mobile fragment, the half-angle of a cone within which the fragment traverses may provide a qualitative measure of the extent of flexibility. By this criterion, monomeric and dimeric IgA's of the same subclass appear to be qualitatively similar in flexibility.
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Karplus M, McCammon JA. The internal dynamics of globular proteins. CRC CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY 1981; 9:293-349. [PMID: 7009056 DOI: 10.3109/10409238109105437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 422] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The fluorescence decay kinetics of pyrene incorporated into artificial and natural membrane vesicles has been studied by pulse fluorimetry. The emission of monomeric pyrene and its excimer embedded in sonicated liposomes prepared from dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and a mixture of this phospholipid and dipalmitoylphosphatidylserine follows a multiple exponential decay law at temperatures both below and above their thermal transitions (10--48 degrees C). When pyrene is incorporated into fragmented skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles, the emission decay exhibits similar multiple exponential character. The decay of the monomer in the phospholipid vesicles can be adequately described by three exponential terms. The experimental decays observed with both types of vesicles deviate significantly from a previously proposed model in which departure of the decay of pyrene monomer from monoexponentiality is qualitatively related to a time dependence in the diffuslipid vesicles can be adequately described by three exponential terms. The experimental decays observed with both types of vesicles deviate significantly from a previously proposed model in which departure of the decay of pyrene monomer from monoexponentiality is qualitatively related to a time dependence in the diffuslipid vesicles can be adequately described by three exponential terms. The experimental decays observed with both types of vesicles deviate significantly from a previously proposed model in which departure of the decay of pyrene monomer from monoexponentiality is qualitatively related to a time dependence in the diffusion-controlled formation of excimers from ground state and excited monomers. It is suggested that the observed decays are compatible with a reaction scheme involving excited state interaction.
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García de la Torre J, Bloomfield VA. Conformation of myosin in dilute solution as estimated from hydrodynamic properties. Biochemistry 1980; 19:5118-23. [PMID: 7006684 DOI: 10.1021/bi00563a028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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On the basis of the current knowledge of the structure and dimensions of myosin and its parts, we analyze available data on hydrodynamic properties (translational diffusion, rotational diffusion, and intrinsic viscosity) for comparison with values calculated for models with varying geometry. Special attention is paid to detecting flexibility effects in those properties. After obtaining a plausible model for subfragment S-1, we concentrate on the conformation of the rodlike parts of myosin. Although uncertainties in the experimental values do not allow a rigorous, quantitative analysis, we show how hydrodynamic data provide evidence for the flexibility of the rod at the joint of subfragment S-2 and light meromyosin.
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Wegener WA, Dowben RM, Koester VJ. Diffusion coefficients for segmentally flexible macromolecules: General formalism and application to rotational behavior of a body with two segments. J Chem Phys 1980. [DOI: 10.1063/1.440595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Harvey SC, Cheung HC. Transport properties of particles with segmental flexibility. II. Decay of fluorescence polarization anisotropy from hinged macromolecules. Biopolymers 1980. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.1980.360190414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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If the subfragment-2 (S2) portion of the myosin cross-bridge to actin does not lie parallel to the myofilament axes then when a muscle fiber contracts, there will be a radial component to the cross-bridge force. When the subfragment-1 (S1) portion of the cross-bridge attaches to actin with its long axis projecting through the filament axis, the magnitude of the radial force depends upon the azimuthal location of the actin site, but when the attachment of the S1 to actin is slewed, as in the reconstruction of Moore et al. (J. Mol. Biol., 1970, 50:279-294), then for a single cross-bridge the radial component of the cross-bridge force is not quite so sensitive to actin site location and is approximately 0.1 the axial component. In both cases, the ratio of the radial to axial force decreases with decreasing filament separation. If the radial-axial force ratio for each cross-bridge is approximately 0.1, then at full overlap in a frog skeletal muscle fiber the radial component of the cross-bridge force accompanying full activation will exert a compressive pressure of approximately 5 X 10(-3) atm. This would have little effect upon an intact muscle fiber where the volume constraints are likely osmotic, but it might produce a 1-2% change in filament spacing in a "skinned" muscle fiber from which the sarcolemma had been removed. These computations assume that the S2 link between the S1 head and the myosin filament does not support a bending moment of shear. If it does, then the radial component of the cross-bridge will be either greater or less, depending on the specific cross-bridge geometry.
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Cheung HC, Almira EC, Kansal PC, Reddy WJ. A membrane abnormality in lymphocytes from diabetic subjects. ENDOCRINE RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 1980; 7:145-56. [PMID: 7418659 DOI: 10.3109/07435808009065968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The fluorescence properties of the hydrophobic probe 1,6-diphenyl1-1,3,5-hexatriene incorporated in the lymphocytes of 30 diabetic patients and 21 normal control subjects were studied. The mean value of the probe polarization was 0.314 for the control group and 0.294 for the patient group. The difference was significant at p < 0.001. The decreased polarization was correlated with the level of plasma glucose in the patients (p < 0.01). Nanosecond fluorescence results obtained from the lymphocytes of 7 patients and 5 controls indicated that there was no significant difference in the probe lifetimes between the two groups of subjects and suggest that the decreased polarization of the probe in the patient group resulted from a more fluid lipid environment of cell membranes.
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Harvey SC. Transport properties of particles with segmental flexibility. I. Hydrodynamic resistance and diffusion coefficients of a freely hinged particle. Biopolymers 1979. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.1979.360180506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Bucci E, Fronticelli C, Flanigan K, Perlman J, Steiner RF. Fluorescence anisotropy decay studies upon hemoglobin A and its subunits. Biopolymers 1979. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.1979.360180516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Wegene WA, Dowben FRM, Koester VJ. Time-dependent birefringence, linear dichroism, and optical rotation resulting from rigid-body rotational diffusion. J Chem Phys 1979. [DOI: 10.1063/1.437541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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