Excitation energy transfer from tryptophan residues of peptides and intrinsic proteins to diphenylhexatriene in phospholipid vesicles and biological membranes |
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Authors: | Trung Le Doan Masashi Takasugi Ines Aragon Gerard Boudet Therese Montenay-Garestier Claude Helene |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Biophysique, Muséum National d''Histoire Naturelle, INSERM U.201, CNRS ERA 951, 61, Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris France |
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Abstract: | An efficient excitation energy transfer from tryptophan residues of intrinsic membrane proteins to an extrinsic fluorescent probe (diphenylhexatriene) has been demonstrated in rat erythrocyte ghosts. To correlate this transfer with the localization of the probe, a model system has been investigated. It consists of peptides containing lysine and tryptophan residues bound to negatively charged phosphatidylserine vesicles. Absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies were used to follow peptide binding and diphenylhexatriene incorporation. Peptide binding is accompanied by a blue shift of the tryptophan fluorescence together with an increase of the quantum yield and of the fluorescence decay time. An experimental Föster critical distance value of 4.0 nm was found for energy transfer from tryptophan residues of peptides to diphenylhexatriene which approaches the range of calculated values (3.1–3.7 nm) using a two-dimensional model. These results demonstrate that efficient energy transfer can occur from tryptophan residues of intrinsic proteins to diphenylhexatriene without any interaction between diphenylhexatriene and proteins in biological membranes. |
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Keywords: | Energy transfer Tryptophan Fluorescence Diphenylhexatriene Model membrane |
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