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Time-resolved fluorescence on lumazine protein from Photobacterium phosphoreum was performed with synchrotron radiation as a source of continuously tunable excitation. The experiments yielded structural and dynamic details from which two aspects became apparent. From fluorescence anisotropy decay monitoring of lumazine fluorescence with different excitation wavelengths, the average correlation times were shown to change, which must indicate the presence of anisotropic motion of the protein. A similar study with 7-oxolumazine as the fluorescent ligand led to comparable results. The other remarkable observation dealt with the buildup of acceptor fluorescence, also observed with 7-oxolumazine although much less pronounced, which is caused by the finite energy transfer process between the single donor tryptophan and the energy accepting lumazine derivatives. Global analytical approaches in data analysis were used to yield realistic correlation times and reciprocal transfer rate constants. It was found that the tryptophan residue has a large motional freedom as also reported previously for this protein and for the related protein from P. leiognathi (Lee et al. 1985; Kulinski et al. 1987). The average distance between the tryptophan residue and the ligand donor-acceptor couple has been determined to be 2.7 nm for the same donor and two different acceptors.
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Visser, A.J.W.G., van Hoek, A., O'Kane, D.J. et al. Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of lumazine protein from Photobacterium phosphoreum using synchrotron radiation. Eur Biophys J 17, 75–85 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00257105
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