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. 1996 Mar;70(3):1122–1137. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79706-0

Tryptophan dynamics of the FK506 binding protein: time-resolved fluorescence and simulations.

N D Silva Jr 1, F G Prendergast 1
PMCID: PMC1225042  PMID: 8785272

Abstract

The FK506-binding protein (FKBP12) is important in the immunosuppressant action of FK506 and rapamycin. We have investigated Trp side chain dynamics in FKBP12, with and without a bound immunosuppressant, by measuring the Trp time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy decay r(t). The r(t) for W59 in aqueous uncomplexed FKBP12 at 20 degrees C is well described by a single exponential with a recovered initial anisotropy, r(eff)o, of 0.192 and an overall rotational correlation time for the protein, phi p, of 4.7 ns; r(eff)o = 0.214 and phi p = 4.2 ns for the FKBP12/FK506 complex. Using an expression for the order parameter squared, namely S2 = r(eff)o/rTo, where rTo is the vitrified steady-state excitation anisotropy, we recovered an S2 of 0.75 for W59 fluorescence in uncomplexed FKBP12 and S2 approximately equal to 1 in the FKBP12/FK506 complex. Results obtained for the FKBP12/rapamycin complex are similar to those found for the FKBP12/FK506 complex. Minimum perturbation mapping simulations were performed on the free and complexed forms of FKBP12 and the results were generally in agreement with the experimental data.

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