title: A simple model-free method for direct assessment of fluorescent ligand binding by linear spectral summation.
abstract: Fluorescent tagged ligands are commonly used to determine binding to proteins. However, bound and free ligand concentrations are not directly determined. Instead the response in a fluorescent ligand titration experiment is considered to be proportional to the extent of binding and, therefore, the maximum value of binding is scaled to the total protein concentration. Here, a simple model-free method is presented to be performed in two steps. In the first step, normalized bound and free spectra of the ligand are determined. In the second step, these spectra are used to fit composite spectra as the sum of individual components or linear spectral summation. Using linear spectral summation, free and bound 1-Anilinonaphthalene-8-Sulfonic Acid (ANS) fluorescent ligand concentrations are directly calculated to determine ANS binding to tear lipocalin (TL), an archetypical ligand binding protein. Error analysis shows that the parameters that determine bound and free ligand concentrations were recovered with high certainty. The linear spectral summation method is feasible when fluorescence intensity is accompanied by a spectral shift upon protein binding. Computer simulations of the experiments of ANS binding to TL indicate that the method is feasible when the fluorescence spectral shift between bound and free forms of the ligand is just 8 nm. Ligands tagged with environmentally sensitive fluorescent dyes, e.g., dansyl chromophore, are particularly suitable for this method.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Ophthalmology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA, ogassymov@mednet.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Oktay K
authors.initials: OK
authors.lastname: Gasymov
authors.forename: Adil R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Abduragimov
authors.forename: Ben J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Glasgow
mesh_terms: D000817:Anilino Naphthalenesulfonates / Q000737:chemistry*; D001665:Binding Sites; D005453:Fluorescence; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D008024:Ligands; D054834:Lipocalins / Q000032:analysis*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013666:Tears / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000817:Anilino Naphthalenesulfonates; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D008024:Ligands; D054834:Lipocalins; C027132:1-anilino-8-naphthalenesulfonate
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