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. 1986 Jul;50(1):75–80. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(86)83440-3

Effects of the state of the succinimido-ring on the fluorescence and structural properties of pyrene maleimide-labeled alpha alpha-tropomyosin.

Y Ishii, S S Lehrer
PMCID: PMC1329660  PMID: 3730508

Abstract

Rabbit skeletal alpha alpha-tropomyosin was labeled at Cys-190 with pyrene maleimide to form (S-[N-(1-pyrene)succinimido])2-tropomyosin (pyreneI-Tm). The product with cleaved succinimido-rings, pyreneII-Tm was also prepared by incubation of pyreneI-Tm at pH greater than 7.5. The pH dependence of the rate of cleavage indicated that hydrolysis rather than aminolysis was the more likely reaction. PyreneI-Tm exhibited a loss in helix content and end-to-end polymerization compared with unlabeled Tm, which increased upon formation of pyreneII-Tm. The cleavage resulted in increased interchain excited state excimer fluorescence originating from pyrene-pyrene interaction between the chains. Thus, increased pyrene-pyrene interaction at Cys 190 leads to an increase in unfolding, the effects of which appear to be transmitted to the ends of tropomyosin. The fluorescence properties of the two types of pyrene-succinimide adducts of dithiothreitol were very similar to the corresponding adducts of pyrene-Tm indicating excimer formation through ground state pyrene-pyrene interaction.

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