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  • Title: The use of site-directed mutagenesis and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy to assign the fluorescence contributions of individual tryptophan residues in Bacillus stearothermophilus lactate dehydrogenase.
    Author: Waldman AD, Clarke AR, Wigley DB, Hart KW, Chia WN, Barstow D, Atkinson T, Munro I, Holbrook JJ.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1987 May 27; 913(1):66-71. PubMed ID: 3580376.
    Abstract:
    Site-directed mutagenesis has been used to generate two mutant Bacillus stearothermophilus lactate dehydrogenases: in one, Trp-150 has been replaced with a tyrosine residue and, in the other, both Trp-150 and -80 are replaced with tyrosines. Both enzymes are fully catalytically active and their affinities for substrates and coenzymes, and thermal stabilities are very similar to those of the native enzyme. Time-resolved fluorescence measurements using a synchrotron source have shown that all three tryptophans in the native enzyme fluoresce. By comparing the mutant and native enzymes it was possible, for the first time, to assign, unambiguously, lifetimes to the individual tryptophans: Trp-203 (7.4 ns), Trp-80 (2.35 ns) and Trp-150 (less than 0.3 ns). Trp-203 is responsible for 75-80% of the steady-state fluorescence emission, Trp-80 for 20%, and Trp-150 for less than 2%.
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