TY - JOUR
T1 - Formycin triphosphate-terbium complex
T2 - a novel spectroscopic probe for phosphoryl transfer enzymes
AU - Kirk, William R.
AU - Amzel, L. Mario
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. L. Brand for lifetime measurements, Eric Suchanek for help with the modelling on the Evans and Sutherland PS-300 at the Interactive Graphics Facility, and Dr. A.S. Mildvan for helpful discussions. We wish to acknowledge the use of the program MACSYMA (©. 1983 Symbolics Inc., MIT). This work was supported by NIH grant GM25432, and equipment grants from NIH, N.S.F., and the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
PY - 1987/12/18
Y1 - 1987/12/18
N2 - The conditions under which the fluorescent pyrazolopyrimidine nucleotide formycin A triphosphate (7-amino-3-(β-d-(5′-tripolyphosphate)ribofuranosyl)pyrazolo[4 ,3-d]pyrimidine, FTP) forms a 1:1 complex in solution with Tb3+ have been characterized. The complex has a dissociation constant of approx. 10-7 M. Within the complex, the luminescence of Tb3+ is dramatically sensitized by energy transfer from formycin. The value for 50% transfer efficiency, Förster's Ro (Förster, T. (1964) in Modern Quantum Chemistry (Sinanoglu, O., ed.), pp 93-137, Academic Press, New York) was determined to be 3.34 ± 0.4 A ̊, and the effective distance between the donor and acceptor transition dipoles, R, in the complex was estimated to be 6.6 ± 1.0 A ̊. The quantum yield of Tb3+ in the complex is sensitive to the number of O-H oscillators bound to the Tb3+, which allows determination of the number of waters bound to it (approx. 4). Preliminary results show that the complex binds to the phosphoryl transfer enzyme hexokinase in the presence of the glucose analogs N-acetylglucosamine, frucose and xylose, which are not phosphorylated by the enzyme. The binding occurs with a loss of energy efficiency consistent with a new distance from the effective transition dipole of formycin to that of terbium of approx. 9.6 Å. The FTP-terbium complex can be used as both a spectroscopic and an X-ray diffraction probe. Studies with this compound should be most valuable for correlating solution and crystallographic data.
AB - The conditions under which the fluorescent pyrazolopyrimidine nucleotide formycin A triphosphate (7-amino-3-(β-d-(5′-tripolyphosphate)ribofuranosyl)pyrazolo[4 ,3-d]pyrimidine, FTP) forms a 1:1 complex in solution with Tb3+ have been characterized. The complex has a dissociation constant of approx. 10-7 M. Within the complex, the luminescence of Tb3+ is dramatically sensitized by energy transfer from formycin. The value for 50% transfer efficiency, Förster's Ro (Förster, T. (1964) in Modern Quantum Chemistry (Sinanoglu, O., ed.), pp 93-137, Academic Press, New York) was determined to be 3.34 ± 0.4 A ̊, and the effective distance between the donor and acceptor transition dipoles, R, in the complex was estimated to be 6.6 ± 1.0 A ̊. The quantum yield of Tb3+ in the complex is sensitive to the number of O-H oscillators bound to the Tb3+, which allows determination of the number of waters bound to it (approx. 4). Preliminary results show that the complex binds to the phosphoryl transfer enzyme hexokinase in the presence of the glucose analogs N-acetylglucosamine, frucose and xylose, which are not phosphorylated by the enzyme. The binding occurs with a loss of energy efficiency consistent with a new distance from the effective transition dipole of formycin to that of terbium of approx. 9.6 Å. The FTP-terbium complex can be used as both a spectroscopic and an X-ray diffraction probe. Studies with this compound should be most valuable for correlating solution and crystallographic data.
KW - Energy transfer
KW - Formycin
KW - Hexokinase
KW - Lanthanide
KW - Phosphoryl transfer
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U2 - 10.1016/0167-4838(87)90174-9
DO - 10.1016/0167-4838(87)90174-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 3689792
AN - SCOPUS:0023571560
SN - 0167-4838
VL - 916
SP - 304
EP - 312
JO - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/Protein Structure and Molecular
JF - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/Protein Structure and Molecular
IS - 3
ER -