Fluorescence resonance energy transfer between bovine serum albumin and fluoresceinamine |
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Authors: | Zhijun Bai Yushuang Liu Ping Zhang Jun Guo Yuxing Ma Xiaoling Yun Xinmin Zhao Ruibo Zhong Feng Zhang |
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Institution: | Agricultural Nanocenter, School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China |
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Abstract: | Physical binding‐mediated organic dye direct‐labelling of proteins could be a promising technology for bio‐nanomedical applications. Upon binding, it was found that fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) occurred between donor bovine serum albumin (BSA; an amphiphilic protein) and acceptor fluoresceinamine (FA; a hydrophobic fluorophore), which could explain fluorescence quenching found for BSA. FRET efficiency and the distance between FA and BSA tryptophan residues were determined to 17% and 2.29 nm, respectively. Using a spectroscopic superimposition method, the saturated number of FAs that bound to BSA was determined as eight to give a complex formula of FA8–BSA. Finally, molecular docking between BSA and FA was conducted, and conformational change that occurred in BSA upon binding to FA molecules was also studied by three‐dimensional fluorescence microscopy. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Keywords: | bovine serum albumin fluoresceinamine fluorescence resonance energy transfer binding sites three‐dimensional fluorescence microscopy |
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