| Item type: | Article | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Chemical Physics | ||||
| Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | ||||
| Place of Publication: | AMSTERDAM | ||||
| Volume: | 308 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 1-2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 79-91 | ||||
| Date: | 2005 | ||||
| Institutions: | Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Alumni or Retired Professors > Group Alfons Penzkofer Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie > Lehrstuhl für Biochemie I | ||||
| Identification Number: |
| ||||
| Keywords: | BLUE-LIGHT RECEPTOR; STRUCTURAL-CHANGES; INDOCYANINE GREEN; PHOT-LOV1 DOMAIN; ARABIDOPSIS NPH1; BINDING DOMAINS; HIGHER-PLANTS; AVENA-SATIVA; LOV1 DOMAIN; PHOTOTROPIN; LOV2 domain; flavin mononucleotide; phototropin; phot; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; absorption cross-section spectra; fluorescence spectroscopy; photo-bleaching; flavin-C(4a)-cysteinyl adduct; quantum yield of adduct formation | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 500 Science > 530 Physics 500 Science > 570 Life sciences | ||||
| Status: | Published | ||||
| Refereed: | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg: | Yes | ||||
| Item ID: | 70975 |
Abstract
The absorption and emission behaviour of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) in the wild-type light, oxygen and voltage sensitive domain LOV2 of the photoreceptor phot from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is studied. Actually a LOV2-His protein (LOV2 domain bound at N-terminal to 15 His aminoacids via a Gly aminoacid) expressed in an Escherichia coli strain is investigated. For fresh samples ...
Abstract
The absorption and emission behaviour of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) in the wild-type light, oxygen and voltage sensitive domain LOV2 of the photoreceptor phot from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is studied. Actually a LOV2-His protein (LOV2 domain bound at N-terminal to 15 His aminoacids via a Gly aminoacid) expressed in an Escherichia coli strain is investigated. For fresh samples stored in the dark an initial fluorescence quantum yield phi(F) = 0.12 +/- 0.01 and an effective fluorescence lifetime of tau(F) = 2.4 +/- 0.1 ns are determined. Blue-light photo-excitation generates an intermediate photoproduct (flavin-C(4a)cysteinyl adduct with absorption peak at 390 nm) resulting in an intensity-dependent fluorescence quenching. In the aqueous solutions at pH 8 approximately 3.8 % of the FMN molecules are not bound to the protein binding pocket, whereas 96.2 % are non-covalently bound. Even at high-intensity light excitation at 428 nm a fraction of about 7 % of the non-covalently bound FMN remains non-converted to an FMN-Cys adduct because of photo-induced back-relaxation of the adduct to non-covalently bound FMN. Two holo-LOV2-His conformations with different adduct recovery time constants are revealed by spectrally and temporally resolved fluorescence and absorption measurements: A fraction of about 48 % forms FMN-Cys adducts with a fast recovery time constant of tau(Ad,f) = 19 +/-2 s in the dark, and the rest forms adducts with a slow recovery time constant of tau(F,s) = 5.5 +/- 1 min. Prolonged blue light irradiation of the flavin-C(4a)-cysteinyl adducts reduces their ability to recover back in the dark to noncovalently bound FMN (photo-induced permanent adduct formation). Numerical simulations of the intensity-dependent absorption depletion reveals a quantum yield of intermediate photo-adduct formation of phi(Ad,b) = 0.9 +/- 0.1. Simulation of the adduct absorption dynamics gives a quantum yield of photo-induced adduct back-relaxation of phi(Ad,b) = 0.15 +/- 0.01 and a quantum yield of photoinduced permanent adduct formation of phi(Ad,p) = (2.6 +/- 0.5) x 10(-4). (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Metadata last modified: 19 Dec 2024 15:05
Altmetric