title: Structural changes of yellow Cameleon domains observed by quantitative FRET analysis and polarized fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
abstract: Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a widely used method for monitoring interactions between or within biological macromolecules conjugated with suitable donor-acceptor pairs. Donor fluorescence lifetimes in absence and presence of acceptor molecules are often measured for the observation of FRET. However, these lifetimes may originate from interacting and noninteracting molecules, which hampers quantitative interpretation of FRET data. We describe a methodology for the detection of FRET that monitors the rise time of acceptor fluorescence on donor excitation thereby detecting only those molecules undergoing FRET. The large advantage of this method, as compared to donor fluorescence quenching method used more commonly, is that the transfer rate of FRET can be determined accurately even in cases where the FRET efficiencies approach 100% yielding highly quenched donor fluorescence. Subsequently, the relative orientation between donor and acceptor chromophores is obtained from time-dependent fluorescence anisotropy measurements carried out under identical conditions of donor excitation and acceptor detection. The FRET based calcium sensor Yellow Cameleon 3.60 (YC3.60) was used because it changes its conformation on calcium binding, thereby increasing the FRET efficiency. After mapping distances and orientation angles between the FRET moieties in YC3.60, cartoon models of this FRET sensor with and without calcium could be created. Independent support for these representations came from experiments where the hydrodynamic properties of YC3.60 under ensemble and single-molecule conditions on selective excitation of the acceptor were determined. From rotational diffusion times as found by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and consistently by fluorescence anisotropy decay analysis it could be concluded that the open structure (without calcium) is flexible as opposed to the rather rigid closed conformation. The combination of two independent methods gives consistent results and presents a rapid and specific methodology to analyze structural and dynamical changes in a protein on ligand binding.
authors.affiliation: Microspectroscopy Centre, Laboratories of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. JanWillem.Borst@wur.nl
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Borst
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Laptenok
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Westphal
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kühnemuth
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hornen
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalinin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aker
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Hoek
authors.forename: C A M
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Seidel
authors.forename: A J W G
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Visser
mesh_terms: D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D005454:Fluorescence Polarization; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D038761:Photobleaching; D011487:Protein Conformation / Q000187:drug effects; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; C495639:yellow cameleon; D002118:Calcium
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