Date post: | 02-Jan-2016 |
Category: |
Documents |
Upload: | wilfrid-sims |
View: | 219 times |
Download: | 2 times |
Ultrafast Solvation Dynamics of Human Serum Albumin:Correlation with Conformational Transitions
and Site-Selected Recognition
Weihong Qiu, Luyuan Zhang, Oghaghare Okobiah, Yi Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ahmed H. Zewail and Dongping Zhong
Biophysics ProgramThe Ohio State University
Tryptophan: the Most Appropriate Tryptophan: the Most Appropriate Fluorescence Probe in ProteinsFluorescence Probe in Proteins
• No concerns of spatial uncertainty
• Allow single-residue spatial resolution
• Easy incorporation in proteins with site-
directed mutagenesis method
Conformational Transitions E F N B A pH Values 2.7 4.3 8 10.0
Human Serum Albumin: Remarkable Drug Delivery Machinery & pH-Dependent Conformation Transition
Solvation Dynamics: the Concept
Pal, S.K.; Peon, J.; Bagchi, B. and Zewail, A.H. J.Phys. Chem. B 2002, 106, 12376
Femtosecond-Resolved Rotational Anisotropy
Tryptophan residue has the largest rotational freedom in N-form HSA
ConclusionsConclusions
• We found the ligand-binding pocket is highly We found the ligand-binding pocket is highly flexible.flexible.
• We established the correlation between the We established the correlation between the conformational transition of HSA and the conformational transition of HSA and the observed solvation dynamics at the ligand-observed solvation dynamics at the ligand-binding pocket.binding pocket.