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Steady-State Fluorescence Spectroscopy 79<br />

Fig. 4. Potassium iodide Stern-Volmer quenching plots of a synthetic peptide<br />

encompassing the CaM-binding domain of skeletal myosin light-chain kinase alone<br />

(filled rectangles), and in complexes with wild-type calmodulin (filled triangles), a<br />

mutant calmodulin where the C-terminal methionine residues were replaced with leucine<br />

(filled ovals), and a CaM where the methionine residues were replaced by<br />

selenomethionine. Notice that the free peptide shows a much greater degree of solvent<br />

exposure than the CaM-target complexes as evidenced by the increased slope (10,12).<br />

The slope in a Stern-Volmer quenching plots provides the Stern-Volmer quenching<br />

constant K SV.<br />

2. Materials<br />

1. Wavelength-scanning spectrofluorimeter capable of excitation at 295 nm (see<br />

Note 1) and detection of fluorescence emission between 300 and 450 nm, such<br />

as the Hitachi F-2000. Ideally the instrument should either be connected to a<br />

microcomputer or have data transfer capability to facilitate subsequent analysis<br />

of the data.<br />

2. Quartz cells that have two transparent faces; one for excitation and one for emission.<br />

Generally these faces will be at 90° to each other and cells are available as<br />

rectangular cuvets with four clear sides. For cells with a path length of 1.0 cm,<br />

the sample volume needed is approx 3.0 mL.<br />

3. Standard buffers chosen to meet pH and ionic requirements of the protein(s) under<br />

study, bearing in mind that absorption of buffer components in the UV range is<br />

undesirable. The absorption of the buffer can be measured using a standard UV/

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