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Eleven individual hyperimmune rabbit polyclonal anti-fluorescein Fab fragment preparations were resolved into heterogeneous subfractions based on differential dissociation times from a specific adsorbent. Four Fab subfractions (i.e., 0.1-, 1.0-, 10-, and 100-day elutions) that differed in affinity were characterized and classified according to the extent of the bathochromic shift in the absorption properties of antibody-bound fluorescein ligand. Absorption maxima of bound fluorescein were shifted in all cases to two distinct narrow ranges, namely, 505 to 507 nm or 518 to 520 nm relative to 491 nm for free fluorescein. There was no direct correlation between the two spectral shift populations and antibody affinity, fluorescence polarization, fluorescence quenching, or fluorescence lifetimes of bound ligand. Fluorescence emission maxima varied with the bathochromic shift range. Bound fluorescein ligand, with absorption maxima of 505 to 507 nm and 518 to 520 nm showed fluorescence emission maxima of 519 to 520 nm and 535 nm, respectively. The two spectral shift ranges differed by ∼14 to 15 nm and/or energies of ∼1.5 kcal mol−1 relative to each other and to the absorption maximum for free fluorescein. Spectral effects on the antibody-bound ligand were discussed relative to solvent-water studies and the atomic structure of a high-affinity liganded anti-fluorescein active site.
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Voss, E.W., Croney, J.C. & Jameson, D.M. Discrete Bathochromic Shifts Exhibited by Fluorescein Ligand Bound to Rabbit Polyclonal Anti-Fluorescein Fab Fragments. J Protein Chem 21, 231–241 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019789118530
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