Cyanotryptophans as Novel Fluorescent Probes for Studying Protein Conformational Changes and DNA-Protein Interaction

Biochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 7457-7469

  Talukder, Poulami ^a   Chen, Shengxi ^a   Roy, Basab ^a   Yakovchuk, Petro ^a   Spiering, Michelle M ^b   Alam, Mohammad P ^a   Madathil, Manikandadas M ^a   Bhattacharya, Chandrabali ^a   Benkovic, Stephen J ^b   Hecht, Sidney M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BINDING ENERGY; BINS; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROBES;

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DNA-PROTEIN INTERACTION; NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; PHOTOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES; PROTEIN-NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER;

PROTEINS;

(7 HYDROXYCOUMARIN 4 YL)ETHYLGLYCINE; 4 AMINOBENZO[G]QUINAZOLINE 2 ONE 2' DEOXYRIBOSIDE; AMINO ACID; AMINOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BENZO[G]QUINAZOLINE 2,4 (1H,3H) DIONE 2' DEOXYRIBOSIDE; CYANOTRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN L; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN BCL 2; QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; SYNTHESIS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84952836976     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01085     Document Type: Article

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