Abstract
Pulse nanosecond fluorescence anisotropy decay has been used to study the mobility of tryptophan residues within fungal lipase fromHumicola lanuginosa. The decay of emission anisotropy of protein in native, inhibited and mutated form has been investigated in buffered water and 50% v/v glycerol solutions. The rotational motions of the lipase were analyzed in terms of two different kinetic models. It was found that the fluorescence emission anisotropy decay can best be desribed with two rotational correlation times: 0.63 and 5.45 ns in water and 0.98 and 10.70 ns and in 50% v/v glycerol solution. Using the same experimental conditions the decay of inhibited and mutatedH. lanuginosa lipase showed a similar biexponential character. These results are interpreted in terms of local or segmental motion arising from a mass of about 1083 daltons which corresponds to the ‘lid’-helix fragment of the enzyme.
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