Time-resolved fluorescence and 1H NMR studies of tyrosine and tyrosine analogues: correlation of NMR-determined rotamer populations and fluorescence kinetics.
Time-resolved fluorescence and 1H NMR studies of tyrosine and tyrosine analogues: correlation of NMR-determined rotamer populations and fluorescence kinetics.
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酪氨酸和酪氨酸类似物的时间分辨荧光和 1H NMR 研究:NMR 测定的旋转异构体群与荧光动力学的相关性。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00351a013
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发表时间:
1986
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Sutherland,JC
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作者:
Laws,WR;Ross,JB;Wyssbrod,HR;Beechem,JM;Brand,L;Sutherland,JC
The time-resolved fluorescence properties of phenol and straight-chained phenol derivatives and tyrosine and simple tyrosine derivatives are reported for the pH range below neutrality. Phenol and straight-chained phenol derivatives exhibit single exponential fluorescence decay kinetics in this pH range unless they have a titratable carboxyl group. If a carboxyl group is present, the data follow a two-state, ground-state, Henderson-Hasselbalch relationship. Tyrosine and its derivatives with a free carboxyl group display complex fluorescencedecay behavior as a function of pH. The complex kinetics cannot be fully explained by titration of a carboxyl group; other ground-state processes are evident, especially since tyrosine analogues with a blocked carboxyl group are also multiexponential. The fluorescence kinetics can be explained by a ground-state rotamer model. Comparison of the preexponential weighting factors (amplitudes) of the fluorescence decay constants with the NMR determined phenol side-chain rotamer populations shows that (1) tyrosinederivatives with a blocked or protonated carboxyl group have at least one rotamer exchanging more slowly than the radiative and nonradiative rates, and the fluorescence data are consistent with a slow-exchange model for all three rotamers,(2) the shortest fluorescence decay constant is associated with a rotamer where the carbonyl group can contact the phenol ring, and (3) in the tyrosine zwitterion, either rotamer interconversion is fast and an average lifetime is seen or rotamer interconversion is slow and the individual fluorescence decay constants are similar.Aime-resolved fluorescence of proteins has mainly been concerned with tryptophan. Tyrosine, by comparison, has received much less attention due to its relatively low absorp-tivity, low quantum yield when incorporated in polypeptide chains [see reviews by Longworth (1971, 1983)], Raman scatter interference as a consequence of the small fluorescence Stokes shift, masking of the tyrosyl emission by tryptophan, and the possibility of excited-state proton transfer with con-comitant formation of tyrosinate complicating the decay ki-netics (Laws & Brand, 1979) and spectral characteristics