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Studies on the interaction between benzophenone and bovine serum albumin by spectroscopic methods

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The interaction between benzophenone (BP) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) was investigated by the methods of fluorescence spectroscopy combined with UV–Vis absorption and circular dichroism (CD) measurements under simulative physiological conditions. The experiment results showed that the fluorescence quenching of BSA by BP was resulted from the formation of a BP–BSA complex and the corresponding association constants (K a) between BP and BSA at four different temperatures had been determined using the modified Stern–Volmer equation. The enthalpy change (ΔH) and entropy change (ΔS) were calculated to be –43.73 kJ mol−1 and −53.05 J mol−1 K−1, respectively, which suggested that hydrogen bond and van der Waals force played major roles in stabilizing the BP–BSA complex. Site marker competitive experiments indicated that the binding of BP to BSA primarily took place in site I (sub-domain IIA). The conformational investigation showed that the presence of BP decreased the α-helical content of BSA and induced the slight unfolding of the polypeptides of protein, which confirmed some micro-environmental and conformational changes of BSA molecules.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of Chinese 863 Program (2007AA06Z407); National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30570015).

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

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Zhang, YZ., Zhang, J., Li, FF. et al. Studies on the interaction between benzophenone and bovine serum albumin by spectroscopic methods. Mol Biol Rep 38, 2445–2453 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-010-0380-z

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