Enzyme activity usually correlates with its conformational flexibility, such that higher flexibility(lower rigidity) is usually accompanied with higher activity. Tryptophan residues which emitfluorescence are most commonly located within the nonpolar interior environment of the proteins. Anexcellent way to experimentally determine the exposure of tryptophan residues to solution is bymeasuring the quenching (decrease) of their fluorescence. The effect of mutations on the accessibilityof tryptophan residues can be studied by measuring amount of fluorescence quenching by potassiumiodide (KI). Iodide ions selectively quench fluorescence emitted by exposed tryptophan residues.In the experiment whose results are presented below, fluorescence quenching on equal amounts ofthree mutated forms of an enzyme (mutant forms 1, 2, and 3) was measured after addition of variousconcentrations of KI (0–0.6 M). Excitation and emission wavelengths used were specific fortryptophan. Quenching data were analysed in terms of the Stern–Volmer constant, K SV , which can becalculated from the ratio of the unquenched and the quenched fluorescence intensities, F o /F, using therelationship
Enzyme activity usually correlates with its conformational flexibility, such that higher flexibility(lower rigidity) is usually accompanied with higher activity. Tryptophan residues which emitfluorescence are most commonly located within the nonpolar interior environment of the proteins. Anexcellent way to experimentally determine the exposure of tryptophan residues to solution is bymeasuring the quenching (decrease) of their fluorescence. The effect of mutations on the accessibilityof tryptophan residues can be studied by measuring amount of fluorescence quenching by potassiumiodide (KI). Iodide ions selectively quench fluorescence emitted by exposed tryptophan residues.In the experiment whose results are presented below, fluorescence quenching on equal amounts ofthree mutated forms of an enzyme (mutant forms 1, 2, and 3) was measured after addition of variousconcentrations of KI (0–0.6 M). Excitation and emission wavelengths used were specific fortryptophan. Quenching data were analysed in terms of the Stern–Volmer constant, K SV , which can becalculated from the ratio of the unquenched and the quenched fluorescence intensities, F o /F, using therelationship<BR>
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