Temperature dependence of spin-label intensity in solutions and its implication in spin-labeled erythrocyte membrane studies.
Temperature dependence of spin-label intensity in solutions and its implication in spin-labeled erythrocyte membrane studies.
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溶液中自旋标记强度的温度依赖性及其在自旋标记红细胞膜研究中的意义。
DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3495(83)84348-3
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发表时间:
1983
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Johnson,ME
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作者:
Fung,LW;Johnson,ME
Dear Sir. Human erythrocyte membrane proteins alkylated with the nitroxide spin label, N-(l-oxyl-2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethyl 4-piperidinyl) maleimide (Mal-6), exhibit multicomponent electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signals. The conventional, first harmonic (V,) spectra of these membrane samples contain broad and narrow line components. The broad component, which is the major signal, and has a large hyperfine splitting, comes from labels that are strongly immobilized by the host proteins; the narrow component, with a smaller hyperfine splitting, comes from labels that are weakly immobilized. The amplitudes of these two signals, Wand S, are convenient parameters, and the W/S ratio has been used by many workers in the analysis of the EPR spectra (1-4). This ratio is very useful in studying intracellular molecules binding to membrane surfaces on the cytoplasmic side, and has been used in this laboratory to study a very low affinity hemoglobinmembrane association at physiological pH (5). Quantitatively, we have used a two-state model to interpret the W/S values obtained from the binding studies. However, Rifkind and co-workers have recently observed an increase in the integrated EPR signal intensity upon increasing temperature (6), and have suggested that there exists a state that is EPRsilent at low temperature due to dipolar interactions, but becomes EPR active at higher temperatures. They suggested that a model of at least three states is more appropriate (6). We disagree with this interpretation, at least, for spin-labeled erythrocyte studies. In this letter we present data showing that the increase in intensity upon increasing temperature is primarily related to EPR cavity sensitivity rather than to an increase in concentration of the bound spin labels that are EPR active.In an EPR measurement, the cavity sensitivity depends on the Q of the cavity, the filling factor, the magnetic moment of the sample, factors affecting either the noise level or the signal level, etc.(7). In general, the cavity sensitivity is a multifunctional quantity. The determination of absolute spin concentration is quite a complicated exercise. For example, recent work shows that many correction factors including the lens effect of a quartz Dewar flask insert and the lens effects of the solvent (8), are needed to compare integrated EPR signal intensities in lossy solutions. The Q of the cavity also depends on the dielectric constant of the sample inside the cavity. In this study, we have kept many factors related to cavity sensitivity constant, and have varied only the tem-