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Probing lipid- and drug-binding domains with fluorescent dyes.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. 16, 1162-1173 (2008)
A series of 2- and 3-OH Nile red dyes was prepared in order to generate water-soluble probes that could be used to probe lipid binding to proteins. Various substitutions in positions 2-/3-, 6-, and 7-shifted wavelengths while maintaining the environmental sensitivity of Nile red. In order to increase the solubility of the dyes in aqueous solutions, we attached butyric acid groups to the 2- or 3-OH position. In addition, phenothiazine dyes, which exhibited particularly long excitation properties, were synthesized and tested for the first time. All dyes showed Stoke's shifts of 70-100 nm and changes in excitation and emission of over 100 nm, depending on the hydrophobicity of the environment. Binding studies with bovine serum albumin and the non-specific lipid transfer protein SCP2 revealed emission changes of more than 30 nm upon binding to the protein and a five-fold increase in emission intensity. Titration of the dye-loaded proteins with various lipids or drugs replaced the dye and thereby reversed the shift in wavelength intensity. This allowed us to estimate the lipid binding affinity of the investigated proteins. For SCP2, isothermal calorimetry (ITC) data verified the titration experiments. NMR titration experiments of SCP2 with Nile red 2-O-butyric acid (1a) revealed that the dye is bound within the lipid binding pocket and competes with lipid ligands for this binding site. These results give valuable insight into lipid and drug transport by proteins outside and inside cells.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Nile red; Environmentally sensitive dyes; Binding; Isothermal calorimetry; Bovine serum albumin; SCP2
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0968-0896
e-ISSN
1464-3391
Quellenangaben
Volume: 16,
Issue: 3,
Pages: 1162-1173
Publisher
Elsevier
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Structural Biology (STB)