Site-specific tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy as a probe of membrane peptide structure and dynamics
Site-specific tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy as a probe of membrane peptide structure and dynamics
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DOI:
10.1007/s002490100182
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发表时间:
2002-03-01
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2
通讯作者:
Sawyer, WH
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作者:
Clayton, AHA;Sawyer, WH
The fluorescence from tryptophan contains valuable information about the environment local to the indole side-chain. This environment sensitivity coupled with the ability to synthetically or genetically incorporate a single tryptophan residue at specific sites in a polypeptide sequence has provided the membrane biophysicist with powerful tools for examining the structure and dynamics of membrane peptides and proteins. Here we briefly review the use of site-specific tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy to probe aspects of peptide orientation, structure, and dynamics in lipid bilayers, focusing on recent developments in the literature.