Fluorescence and Rotational Dynamics of Dityrosine

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作者：

Harms G.S. ^{[1
]}

Pauls S.W. ^{[1
]}

Hedstrom J.F. ^{[2
]}

Johnson C.K. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence

[2] Department of Chemistry, Luther College, Decorah

来源：

Journal of Fluorescence | 1997年 / 7卷 / 4期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Dipeptides; Dityrosine; Fluorescence anisotropy; Fluorescence intensity; Rotational correlation times; Time-correlated single-photon counting; Tyrosine;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1022525909128

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摘要：

We have examined the lifetimes and rotational correlation times of dityrosine emission by time-correlated single-photon counting. We first noticed dityrosine fluorescence in samples of tyrosine and tyrosine dipeptides by its characteristic red-shifted emission at 400 to 430 nm. The longer rotational correlation time relative to tyrosine proved that this fluorescence emanated from a distinct species. Comparison with the fluorescence properties of synthesized dityrosine established the identity of the emitting species. Fluorescence intensity decays of dityrosine are generally characterized by two decay components, one with a lifetime in the range of 150 to 800 ps and another between 2.5 and 4.5 ns. We found no evidence for an excited-state reaction, since a rising phase (negative-amplitude component) was not observed. In the pH range from 4 to 10, two ground-state species exist in equilibrium with pKa ≈ 7. Both species exhibit two fluorescence decays. The average fluorescence lifetime increases gradually with pH over the pH range from 4 to 10 and decreases at pH 2. Anisotropy decays were measured for dityrosine and the alanine-dityrosine-alanine and leucine-dityrosine-leucine dipeptides. The rotational correlation times of dityrosine and dityrosine dipeptides increase linearly with van der Waals volumes. The slope indicates a stronger solute-solvent interaction than predicted with "stick" boundary conditions. It is suggested that these interactions result from the presence of two zwitterionic pairs.

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