PMID: 7025898Jul 21, 1981Paper

Time-resolved fluorescence of the two tryptophans in horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase

Biochemistry
J B RossL Brand

Abstract

The tryptophan fluorescence decay of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase, at 10 degrees C in 0.1 M pH 7.4 sodium phosphate buffer, with excitation at 295 nm, is a double exponential with time constants of 3.8 and 7.2 ns. Within experimental error, the two lifetimes remain constant across the emission spectrum. Only the 3.8-ns lifetime is quenched in the NAD+-pyrazole ternary complex, and only the 7.2-ns lifetime is quenched by 0-0.05 M KI. On the basis of these results, we assign the 3.8-ns lifetime to the buried tryptophan, Trp-314, and the 7.2-ns lifetime to the exposed tryptophan, Trp-15. The steady-state lifetime-resolved emission spectrum of Trp-15 has a maximum at approximately 340 nm and that of Trp-15 is at approximately 325 nm. The total time-resolved emission, after 40 ns of decay, has a maximum between 338 and 340 nm and is primarily due to the Trp-15 emission. As a consequence of the wavelength dependence of the preexponential weighting factors, there is an increase in the average lifetime from the blue to the red edge of the emission. This increase reflects the change in the spectral contributions of Trp-15 and Trp-314. Consideration of the spectral overlap between the emission spectra of the two tryptophans and the ...Continue Reading

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