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A combination of intrinsic fluorescence and circular dichroic (CD) spectroscopy has been used to characterize the complexes formed between bovine retinal arrestin and heparin or phytic acid, two ligands that are known to mimic the structural changes in arrestin attending receptor binding. No changes in the CD spectra were observed upon ligand binding, nor did the degree of tryptophan fluorescence quenching change significantly in the complexes. These data argue against any large-scale changes in protein secondary or tertiary structure accompanying ligand binding. The change in tyrosine fluorescence intensity was used to determine the dissociation constants for the heparin and phytic acid complexes of arrestin. The only change observed was a saturable diminution of tyrosine fluorescence signal from the protein. For both ligands, the data suggest two distinct binding interactions with the protein—a high-affinity interaction with K d between 200 and 300 nM, and a lower affinity interaction with K d between 2 and 8 μM. Study of collisional quenching of tyrosine fluorescence in free arrestin and the ligand-replete complexes indicates that 10 of the 14 tyrosine residues of the protein are solvent-exposed in the free protein; this value drops to between 5 and 6 solvent-exposed residues in the high-affinity complexes of the two ligands. These data suggest that ligand binding leads to direct occlusion of between 4 and 5 tyrosine residues on the solvent-exposed surface of the protein, but not to any large-scale changes in protein structure. The large activation energy previously reported to be associated with arrestin–receptor interactions may therefore reflect localized movements of the N- and C-termini of arrestin, which are proposed to interact in the free protein through electrostatic interactions. Binding of the anionic ligands heparin, phytic acid, or phosphorylated rhodopsin may compete with the C-terminus of arrestin for these electrostatic interactions, thus allowing the C-terminus to swing out of the binding region.
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Wilson, C.J., Copeland, R.A. Spectroscopic Characterization of Arrestin Interactions with Competitive Ligands: Study of Heparin and Phytic Acid Binding. J Protein Chem 16, 755–763 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026311832660
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