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Table 1<br />

Advanced Fluorescence Methods and Selected Applications<br />

<strong>Protein</strong>/<br />

Fluorophore Brief method details Application Ref.<br />

Parvalbumin,<br />

oncomodulin,<br />

calmodulin/Tb 3+<br />

Calmodulin, troponin<br />

C/tryptophan,<br />

DANSYL<br />

Calmodulin/tryptophan<br />

Calmodulin/tyrosine<br />

68Calmodulin/GFP<br />

Phospholipid<br />

scramblase/tryptophan,<br />

Tb 3+<br />

C2 domain of Cytosolic<br />

Phospholipase<br />

A 2/fluorescin<br />

Annexin V/fluorescin,<br />

NBD<br />

FRET from aromatic amino acids in the Ca 2+ - binding loops<br />

of the proteins to bound Tb 3+ .<br />

Frequency domain FRET used to probe the distance between<br />

the DANSYLated N-terminus and Trp of melittin. These<br />

measurements were performed for the free peptide as well<br />

as in complexes with CaM, TnC, and in vesicles.<br />

Steady state fluorescence of CaM complexes with CaM-target<br />

peptides. CaM proteins were engineered such that methionine<br />

residues were replaced with unnatural amino acid<br />

analogs.<br />

FRET between two tyrosines by using a nitro-tyrosine derivative<br />

as the acceptor, and a normal tyrosine as the donor.<br />

Distinctly colored mutant Green Fluorescent proteins are<br />

genetically appended to the termini of a CaM/CaM-target<br />

chimera and monitored for fluorescence resonance energy<br />

transfer.<br />

FRET evidence that there is coordinate metal ion binding<br />

from protein trp to Tb 3+ in an EF- hand-like domain. The<br />

Tb 3+ is competed out by Ca 2+ .<br />

Cysteine scanning mutagenesis used to attach a fluorescin<br />

probe in 16 locations. Ca 2+ triggered environmental<br />

changes were probed based on intensity changes and Stern-<br />

Volmer quenching constants.<br />

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiments<br />

employed to probe the concentration effects of annexin V<br />

on its lateral mobility in a mixed lipid system.<br />

Use of Tb 3+ as a sensitive luminescent probe of<br />

the structure and function of EF-hand Ca 2+ -<br />

binding loops<br />

Determine the distribution of distances present<br />

in solution between the two fluorophores.<br />

The result can be interpreted as the degree<br />

of conformational freedom.<br />

Probing the role of methionine side-chains in<br />

the sequestering of CaM-target peptides.<br />

Determination of distance separation in both<br />

the apo and Ca 2+ -saturated states.<br />

Detection of localized concentrations of Ca 2+ .<br />

Can be targeted to specific organelles within<br />

living cells.<br />

Confirmation that the EF-hand looplike<br />

segement contributes directly to Ca 2+ -<br />

binding.<br />

Indication that the membrane docking surface<br />

of the C2 domain is localized to the same<br />

surface that binds a pair of Ca 2+ ions.<br />

Demonstration that the annexin is hindered by<br />

its specific interaction with one type of<br />

lipid; localization of this interaction to the<br />

headgroup.<br />

(15)<br />

(16)<br />

(10,12)<br />

(17)<br />

(18)<br />

(19)<br />

(20)<br />

(21)<br />

84 Weljie and Vogel

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