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HOMOLOGY MODELING OF BJ2SHOMOLOGY MODELING OF BJ2S

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Although dielectric relaxation can significantly affect the intrinsic fluorescence properties of a protein, usually it is fast compared to fluorescence timescales and needs to be slowed down by adding viscogens or lowering temperature before its impact on fluorescence can be studied. We report here a remarkable blue shift in fluorescence upon bimolecular quenching in the single-tryptophan thermostable protein Bj2S, the 2S seed albumin from Brassica juncea, at ambient temperature and viscosity. The magnitude of the blue shift ( approximately 5 nm at 50% quenching by acrylamide) is striking in a single-tryptophan protein and is attributed to a slowly relaxing dielectric environment in Bj2S from red edge excitation, steady-state polarization and time-resolved fluorescence experiments. Our results have important implications on interpretation of fluorescence of proteins with highly constrained backbones and in designing model systems for studying slow protein solvation dynamics using Trp fluorescence as the reporter probe.

Dielectric relaxation in a single tryptophan protein.,Ghose M, Mandal S, Roy D, Mandal RK, Basu G FEBS Lett. 2001 Dec 7;509(2):337-40. PMID:11741613[1]

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References

  1. Ghose M, Mandal S, Roy D, Mandal RK, Basu G. Dielectric relaxation in a single tryptophan protein. FEBS Lett. 2001 Dec 7;509(2):337-40. PMID:11741613
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