TY - JOUR
T1 - Photophysics of EGFP (E222H) Mutant, with Comparisons to Model Chromophores
T2 - Excited State pK’s, Progressions, Quenching and Exciton Interaction
AU - Kirk, William
AU - Allen, Thomas
AU - Atanasova, Elena
AU - Wessels, William
AU - Yao, Janet
AU - Prendergast, Franklyn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - A novel version of the well-known and commercially successful Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) variant known as EGFP, with an introduced E222H mutation, was produced in this laboratory. Given the current state of hypotheses about the role of glutamate 222, and the observed dominance of the phenolate absorption with an E222H variant observed from earlier study, the new mutant was considered a natural choice to investigate more fully the acid-base behavior of the chromophore in absorption and fluorescence. The bulk of this investigation concerns fitting the excitation, emission and absorption spectra to vibrational progressions of a novel ‘q-deformed’ type at various values of pH, and protein concentration. From these data, and from temperature-dependent fluorescence lifetime data and other experiments (with lanthanide doped gels into which H/EGFP is embedded), we construct a picture of excited inter- state conversion mechanisms, and quenching mechanisms, that attempts to explain many features of the GFP system. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
AB - A novel version of the well-known and commercially successful Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) variant known as EGFP, with an introduced E222H mutation, was produced in this laboratory. Given the current state of hypotheses about the role of glutamate 222, and the observed dominance of the phenolate absorption with an E222H variant observed from earlier study, the new mutant was considered a natural choice to investigate more fully the acid-base behavior of the chromophore in absorption and fluorescence. The bulk of this investigation concerns fitting the excitation, emission and absorption spectra to vibrational progressions of a novel ‘q-deformed’ type at various values of pH, and protein concentration. From these data, and from temperature-dependent fluorescence lifetime data and other experiments (with lanthanide doped gels into which H/EGFP is embedded), we construct a picture of excited inter- state conversion mechanisms, and quenching mechanisms, that attempts to explain many features of the GFP system. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
KW - Foerster diagram
KW - Franck-Condon factors
KW - Proton-coupled-electron-transfer
KW - Vibronic-exciton coupling
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U2 - 10.1007/s10895-017-2025-2
DO - 10.1007/s10895-017-2025-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85013078031
SN - 1053-0509
VL - 27
SP - 895
EP - 919
JO - Journal of Fluorescence
JF - Journal of Fluorescence
IS - 3
ER -