title: Fluorescent derivative of cysteine-10 reveals thyroxine-dependent conformational modifications in human serum prealbumin.
abstract: Fluorescence studies on the N-(iodoacetyl)-N'-(5-sulfo-1-naphthyl)ethylenediamine-labeled cysteine-10 residue of human prealbumin were carried out to detect conformational changes induced by the binding of the ligand thyroxine to the two structurally identical binding sites. A red shift of the spectrum was observed and the total change was confined to the first ligand. This was interpreted as resulting from a conformational change which increases the exposure of the fluorescent probe moiety. Thyroxine also alters the effect of the collisional quencher, acrylamide, confirming the greater exposure of the probe. This modification in structure is associated with changes in relaxation time which indicate that when thyroxine is bound there is an increase in the rotational freedom of the segment or domain of prealbumin which contains the fluorescent probe.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas y Matemáticas, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: González
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D003545:Cysteine / Q000097:blood*; D005454:Fluorescence Polarization; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006801:Humans; D009282:Naphthalenesulfonates; D011228:Prealbumin / Q000097:blood*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000097:blood* / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D009282:Naphthalenesulfonates; D011228:Prealbumin; C006421:1,5-I-AEDANS; D003545:Cysteine; D013974:Thyroxine