Biology – Quantitative Biology – Biomolecules
Scientific paper
Jan 1993
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Thesis (PH.D.)--OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, 1993.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: B, page: 609
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Biomolecules
Scientific paper
There is considerable uncertainty about dynamic aspects of the photophysics of the adenylyl chromophore, stemming from the discordant values reported for the room temperature fluorescence lifetimes (tau_1 = 5 ps, tau_2 = 330 ps for 9MeAde; tau_1 = 290 ps, tau_2 = 4.17 ns for ATP). Spectra reported in conjunction with these lifetimes create difficulties in assignment of emission. To clarify this situation I have investigated the fluorescence decay times and time -resolved emission spectra of adenylyl compounds under a variety of conditions (concentration, pH, solvent) using sub-ns laser excitation at 265 nm together with gated fast sampling (100 ps) detection and signal averaging. Multi -component decays and spectra are observed in aqueous solution. Major slow components (tau = 4.4 +/- 0.2 ns) with emission maxima at 380 nm are found for all components at pH 1.1 and for ATP at pH 4.4. At pH 7 a fast component (<100 ps) predominates. There is no marked evidence for a concentration dependence, the oscillator strengths are 10^ {-3}-10^{-5} and transitions must be classified as weakly forbidden. Single component emission is observed in acetonitrile and ethanol. The UV absorption spectra of biomolecules d(CG) and polyd(GC)cdotpolyd(GC) exhibit the different hypochromic effects due to different interactions between guanosine(G) and cytidine(C) in stacked form. The present work has been carried out to explain this quantitatively. To approach this problem the absorption spectra of G and C have been resolved into gaussian components using the PeakFit program. The absorption spectra (220-310 nm) of d(CG) and polyd(GC)cdotpolyd(GC) have been fitted with gaussian components of G and C (in the order of increasing energy, G1 and G2, and C1, C2 and C3, respectively), and the contribution to both spectra from individual gaussians is estimated in terms of oscillator strengths. The fitting results suggest that the small hypochromism in absorption spectrum of d(CG) may be attributed to the interactions between G1 and C1; the large hypochromism in absorption spectrum of polyd(GC)cdotpolyd(GC) probably originates from the interactions between G1, C1, C2 and C3. The present work has also resolved a series of absorption spectra of cytidyl chromophore in different pH aqueous solution and various solvents. Time-resolved emission spectra of GMP, dCMP and m^5 -dCMP in different pH aqueous solutions have been determined. The results show that pH affects the lifetimes and spectral characteristics of GMP significantly, but does not affect dCMP and m^5-dCMP.
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