Abstract
We discovered a series of novel behaviours of interactions between Ni2+ ion and human or bovine serum albumin. Our results indicated that there exist two closely neighbouring identical prior binding sites in the binding of human or bovine serum albumin with Ni2+ ions, not only one. It is very likely that, after the binding of the first Ni2+ ion, an induced slow conformational transition happens, which leads to the binding of the second Ni2+ ion and shows itself as a hysteretic effect for a process of non-enzymic protein binding with metal ions. As the concentrations of the 1:1 (molar ratio of Ni2+ ion to protein) system increase, an increasing hypochromic effect is observed. Such a hypochromic effect has not been reported previously; however, it is in accord with the mechanism of dipole-dipole interactions between the electric dipole transition moments of chromophores.
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