title: Spectroscopic characterization of flavin mononucleotide bound to the LOV1 domain of Phot1 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
abstract: The absorption and emission behavior of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) in the light-, oxygen- and voltage-sensitive (LOV) domain LOV1 of the photoreceptor Phot1 from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was studied. The results from the wild-type (LOV1-WT) were compared with those from a mutant in which cysteine 57 was replaced by serine (LOV1-C57S), and with free FMN in aqueous solution. A fluorescence quantum yield of phi(F) = 0.30 and a fluorescence lifetime of tau(F) = 4.6 ns were determined for FMN in the mutant LOV1-C57S, whereas these quantities are reduced to about phi(F) = 0.17 and tau(F) = 2.9 ns for LOV1-WT, indicating an enhanced intersystem crossing in LOV1-WT because of the adjacent sulfur of C57. A single-exponential fluorescence decay was observed in picosecond laser time-resolved fluorescence measurements for both LOV1-WT and LOV1-C57S as expected for excited singlet state relaxation by intersystem crossing and internal conversion. An excitation intensity dependent fluorescence signal saturation was observed in steady-state fluorescence measurements for LOV1-WT, which is thought to be because of the formation of a long-lived intermediate flavin-C(4a)-cysteinyl adduct in the triplet state (few microseconds triplet lifetime, adduct lifetime around 150 s). No photobleaching was observed for LOV1-C57S, because no thiol group is present in the vicinity of FMN for an adduct formation.
authors.affiliation: Institut II-Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Holzer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Penzkofer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fuhrmann
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hegemann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D016825:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / Q000378:metabolism*; D005486:Flavin Mononucleotide / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013053:Spectrophotometry
chemical_list: D010750:Phosphoproteins; D005486:Flavin Mononucleotide