Time-resolved fluorescence study of the single tryptophans of engineered skeletal muscle troponin C.
Time-resolved fluorescence study of the single tryptophans of engineered skeletal muscle troponin C.
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工程骨骼肌肌钙蛋白 C 的单一色氨酸的时间分辨荧光研究。
DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78137-2
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Cheung,HC
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作者:
She,M;Dong,WJ;Umeda,PK;Cheung,HC
The regulatory domain of troponin C (TnC) from chicken skeletal muscle was studied using genetically generated mutants which contained a single tryptophan at positions 22, 52, and 90. The quantum yields of Trp-22 are 0.33 and 0.25 in the presence of Mg2+ (2-Mg state) and Ca2+ (4-Ca state), respectively. The large quantum yield of the 2-Mg state is due to a relatively small nonradiative decay rate and consistent with the emission peak at 331 nm. The intensity decay of this state is monoexponential with a single lifetime of 5.65 ns, independent of wavelength. In the 4-Ca state, the decay is biexponential with the mean of the two lifetimes increasing from 4.54 to 4.92 ns across the emission band. The decay-associated spectrum of the short lifetime is red-shifted by 19 nm relative to the steady-state spectrum. The decay of Trp-52 is biexponential in the 2-Mg state and triexponential in the 4-Ca state. The decay of Trp-90 requires three exponential terms for a satisfactory fit, but can be fitted with two exponential terms in the 4-Ca state. The lower quantum yields (< 0.15) of these two tryptophans are due to a combination of smaller radiative and larger nonradiative decay rates. The results from Trp-22 suggest a homogeneous ground-state indole ring in the absence of bound Ca2+ at the regulatory sites and a ground-state heterogeneity induced by activator Ca2+. The Ca(2+)-induced environmental changes of Trp-52 and Trp-90 deviate from those predicted by a modeled structure of the 4-Ca state. The anisotropy decays of all three tryptophans show two rotational correlation times. The long correlation times (phi 1=8.1–8.3 ns) derived from Trp-22 and Trp-90 suggest an asymmetric hydrodynamic shape. TnC becomes more asymmetric upon binding activator Ca2+ (phi 1=10.1–11.6 ns). The values of phi 1 obtained from Trp-52 are 3–4 ns shorter than those from Trp-22 and Trp-90, and these reduced correlation times may be related to the mobility of the residue and/or local segmental flexibility.