Association between lumazine protein and bacterial luciferase: direct demonstration from the decay of the lumazine emission anisotropy.
Association between lumazine protein and bacterial luciferase: direct demonstration from the decay of the lumazine emission anisotropy.
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二氢吲嗪蛋白与细菌荧光素酶之间的关联:二氢吲嗪发射各向异性衰减的直接证明。
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Visser,AJ;Lee,J
Antonie J. W. G. Visser and John Lee* abstract: The correlation time for the decay of the emission anisotropy of the bound 6, 7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine in the lumazine protein from Photobacterium phosphoreum is 23 ns (3 C). In the presence of about 100 µ concentrations of the bacterial luciferase purified from Vibrio harveyi, in about 10 times molar excess over the lumazine protein, the correlation time is increased to around 75 ns, and the an-isotropy decays as a single exponential. This is a direct dem-onstration of association between luciferase and lumazine protein, and this is confirmed by sedimentation velocity measurements. The sedimentationcoefficient for lumazine protein alone, s20w= 1-9 S, is increased to 5.6 S in the lu-ciferase solution. At lower luciferase concentrations the an-isotropy decaybecomes biexponential, and a constrained correlation times analysis is used to extract amplitudes of the shorter and longer times as measures of the free and complexed lumazine protein concentrations. With the use of this technique for analysis, a titration with lumazine protein shows that luciferases, which have high activities in the regular in vitroBioluminescent bacteria of the genus Photobacterium produce lumazine protein in high yield (Gast & Lee, 1978; Lee & Koka, 1978; Lee & Elrod, 1981). This soluble protein of 20 000 daltons is called lumazine protein because it contains 6, 7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine (Koka & Lee, 1979)(here-inafter called “lumazine”) as a bound prosthetic group (Kd= 0.05 µ, 2 C; Visser & Lee, 1980; Irwin et al., 1980). The bound lumazine is efficiently fluorescent (gF*= 0.6, tf= 14.4