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  • Title: Interaction of diiodo-L-tyrosine and triiodophenol with bovine serum albumin. Circular dichroism and fluorescence studies.
    Author: Okabe N, Manabe N, Tokuoka R, Tomita K.
    Journal: J Biochem; 1976 Sep; 80(3):455-61. PubMed ID: 10286.
    Abstract:
    As a model study to investigate the binding mechanism between thyroid hormones and carrier protein, the interaction of diiodo-L-tyrosine (DIT) and triiodophenol (I3phi) with bovine serum albumin (BSA) was investigated by circular dichroism (CD) and fluorescence methods. In both the DIT-BSA system and the I3phi-BSA system, induced Cotton effect was observed in the wavelength region near 320 nm. This induced Cotton effect was measured at various molar ratios of ligands to BSA (L/P). The value of the ellipticity at 319 nm, [theta]319, in the I3phi-BSA system was remarkably large compared with that of the DIT-BSA system, and [theta]319 at an L/P ratio of one was -1.96 X 10(4) (degree cm2 decimole-1) for the I3phi-BSA system and -0.1 X 10(4) for the DIT-BSA system. The binding constants for the combination of BSA with a single molecule of ligand, calculated by measuring the quenching of the fluorescence of the protein, were 1.33 X 10(5) M(-1) at 15 degrees for the DIT-BSA system and 1.6 X 10(9) M(-1) at 28 degrees for the I3theta-BSA system. These results suggest that the binding of I3theta to BSA is stronger than that of DIT and a cleft may exist more congruent with the molecular dimensions of I3theta than with those of DIT.
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