Selective quenching of tryptophanyl fluorescence in bovine serum albumin by the iodide ion

Autor: Meenakshi Maruthamuthu, G. Selvakumar
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences. 107:79-86
ISSN: 0253-4134
Popis: Modified Stern-Volmer equation is obeyed by bovine serum albumin (BSA)-iodide system showing selective quenching of tryptophanyl fluorescence of BSA. The fraction of accessible protein fluorescence is 0.56 and the effective Stern-Volmer constant is 290 M-1 at pH 7.4 in 0.005 M phosphate buffer at 25°C. Collisional quenching is operative both in the BSA -I−1 system and the model system, tryptophan-I−1. It is supported by the observed relationship between the ratio of quenching rate constants (k q ) and diffusion coefficients and alsok q with bulk viscosity.
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