Article
Probing the Ca(2+) switch of the neuronal Ca(2+) sensor GCAP2 by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.
ACS chemical biology - 15 Jun 2012
Kollmann Heiko, Becker Simon F, Shirdel Javid, Scholten Alexander, Ostendorp Anna, Lienau Christoph, Koch Karl-Wilhelm
Abstract excerpt
We report fluorescence lifetime and rotational anisotropy measurements of the fluorescent dye Alexa647 attached to the guanylate cyclase-activating protein 2 (GCAP2), an intracellular myristoylated calcium sensor protein operating in photoreceptor cells. By linking the dye to different protein regions critical for monitoring calcium-induced conformational changes, we could measure fluorescence lifetimes and...
Topics
- Animals
- Calcium
- Carbocyanines
- Cattle
- Escherichia coli
- Fluorescence Polarization
- Fluorescent Dyes
- Gene Expression
- Guanylate Cyclase-Activating Proteins
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
