Does anyone know of a good, online, basic text for this sort of
thing, i.e. fluorescence spectroscopy and its application to proteins?
-John Collins, Medical Biotechnology Center, Baltimore
On 18 Mar 1999, Bhupesh Taneja wrote:
> Hi all!
> 1) I want to do folding-unfolding studies with my protein.
> Unfortuantely, the single tryptophan is partially exposed. (as from
> homologous xtal strucures and by quenching with KI). The emission maxima
> I obtain is at 346 nm for the native protein with a broad band width and
> for fully unfolded protein(thermal) at 350 nm. Is it possible that most
> of the protein molecles are in an unfolded state? How do I check this?
> (The protein is in 10mM Tris-Cl, pH 7.5). From other structures ~25-30%
> of trp is exposed. Also KI would bind to exposed Trp in folded and in
> unfolded proteins.
> 2) How is the correction for decrease in fluorescence due to increasing
> temperature is done in thermal unfolding?
> Thanks for all suggestions.
> Bhupesh. 17-3-99.
>bhupesh at lion.imtech.ernet.in>bhupesh at bragg.imtech.ernet.in>>
