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Exploiting luminescence spectroscopy to elucidate the interaction between sugar and a tryptophan residue in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli.


ABSTRACT: The crystal structure of the Escherichia coli lactose permease at 3.5 A with a bound substrate has been reported recently. The structure reveals the sugar-protein contacts, which include hydrophobic stacking between the galactopyranosyl ring of substrate and the indole side chain of Trp-151, as proposed previously. The nature of this interaction is studied here by exploiting the luminescence properties of Trp-151 in a mutant devoid of other tryptophan residues. The following phenomena are observed. (i) The fluorescence emission spectrum of Trp-151 and fluorescence-quenching experiments with water-soluble quenchers demonstrate that Trp-151 is in a hydrophilic environment. (ii) Substrate binding leads to a blue shift in the emission spectrum and reduction in accessibility to polar quenchers, indicating that Trp-151 becomes less exposed to aqueous solvent. (iii) The phosphorescence spectrum of Trp-151 is red-shifted in the presence of substrate, indicating charge separation of the triplet state due to a direct stacking interaction between the galactopyranosyl and indole rings. The spectroscopic data fully complement the x-ray structure and demonstrate the feasibility of fluorescence spectroscopy for studying sugar-protein interactions.

SUBMITTER: Vazquez-Ibar JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC240682 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Exploiting luminescence spectroscopy to elucidate the interaction between sugar and a tryptophan residue in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli.

Vázquez-Ibar José Luis JL   Guan Lan L   Svrakic Maja M   Kaback H Ronald HR  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20031017 22


The crystal structure of the Escherichia coli lactose permease at 3.5 A with a bound substrate has been reported recently. The structure reveals the sugar-protein contacts, which include hydrophobic stacking between the galactopyranosyl ring of substrate and the indole side chain of Trp-151, as proposed previously. The nature of this interaction is studied here by exploiting the luminescence properties of Trp-151 in a mutant devoid of other tryptophan residues. The following phenomena are observ  ...[more]

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