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Chemically induced unfolding of bovine serum albumin by urea and sodium dodecyl sulfate: A spectral study with the polarity-sensitive charge-transfer fluorescent probe (E)-3-(4-methylaminophenyl)acrylic acid methyl ester
Published in WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
2009
PMID: 19466702
Volume: 10
   
Issue: 43718
Pages: 1664 - 1671
Abstract
Sensitivity of the charge-transfer (CT) band of the fluorescence probe (E)-3-(4-methylaminophenyl)acrylic acid methyl ester (MAPAME) towards the polarity of its immediate environment is employed to investigate the binding interaction of the probe with bovine serum albumin (BSA) and uncoiling of BSA by the denaturants urea and sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles. Binding of the probe with BSA produces a blue shift and enhanced intensity of the CT emission band which clearly point toward a decrease in polarity of the immediate environment of MAPAME. This is expected, since binding with BSA moves the probe from a polar water environment to a much less polar, hydrophobic protein interior, where the CT band is expected to be blue-shifted. Higher intensity arises due to fewer non-radiative decay paths available to the probe in the hydrophobic protein environment. Chemically induced unfolding of BSA by urea and sodium dodecyl sulfate is tracked by monitoring the induced spectral changes of the protein-bound probe MAPAME. Red-edge excitation shift or REES, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and anisotropy measurements are used to investigate and monitor these binding and unfolding processes. © 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH&Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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ISSN1439-4235
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