This study investigated the interaction between eupatorin and bovine serum albumin (BSA) using ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption, fluorescence, synchronous fluorescence, circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopies, and molecular modeling at pH 7.4. Results of UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopies illustrated that BSA fluorescence was quenched by eupatorin via a static quenching mechanism. The...

The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of any drug will depend, largely, on the interaction that it has with human serum albumin (HSA), the most abundant plasma protein. The interaction between newly synthesized Pd(II) complexes, 2,2'-bipyridin octyl dithiocarbamato Pd(II) nitrate (Octpd), 2,2'-bipyridin butyl dithiocarbamato Pd(II) nitrate (ButPd), 2,2'-bipyridin ethyl dithiocarbamato Pd(II...

Peridinin chlorophyll a protein (PCP) from Amphidinium carterae has been studied using absorbance (OD), linear dichroism (LD), circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence emission, fluorescence anisotropy, fluorescence line narrowing (FLN), and triplet-minus-singlet spectroscopy (T-S) at different temperatures (4-293 K). Monomeric PCP binds eight peridinins and two Chls a. The trimeric structure of P...

the interactions between platinum complexes and human serum albumin (hsa) play crucial roles in the distribution, metabolism, and activity of platinum-based anticancer drugs. octahedral platinum (iv) complexes represent a significant class of anticancer agents that display molecular pharmacological properties different from cisplatin. in this study, the interaction between two pt(iv) complexes ...

The interaction between human serum albumin (HSA) and two drugs - amlodipine and propranolol - was investigated using fluorescence, UV absorption and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. In addition, the binding site was established by applying molecular modeling technique. Fluorescence data suggest that amlodipine will quench the intrinsic fluorescence of HSA; whereas propranolol enhances the...

A novel adenylate kinase (AK) has recently been purified from Desulfovibrio gigas and characterized as a Co(2+)/Zn(2+)-containing enzyme: this is an unusual characteristic for AKs from Gram-negative bacteria, in which these enzymes are normally devoid of metals. Here, we studied the conformational stability of holo- and apo-AK as a function of temperature by differential scanning calorimetry (D...

Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is by far the most widely used technique for protein secondary structure analysis. A survey of the scientific literature will reveal that Robert Woody (Fig. 1) has undoubtedly been a pioneer in the elucidation of the relationship between CD and protein structure and

Although the mechanism by which a kinesin-1 molecule moves individually along a microtubule is quite well-understood, the way that many kinesin-1 motor proteins bound to the same cargo move together along a microtubule is not. We identified a 60-amino-acid-long domain, termed Hinge 1, in kinesin-1 from Drosophila melanogaster that is located between the coiled coils of the neck and stalk domain...

Novel G-quadruplex structures are constructed by acyclic (L)-threninol nucleic acid and their synthesis and biophysical properties are described. Pyrene excimer fluorescence and circular dichroism (CD) data revealed that four strands of aTNA are oriented in antiparallel direction.