Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2022
Keywords
anisotropy; green florescent protein; temperature; pressure
Abstract
We have studied the effect of high hydrostatic pressure and temperature on the steady state fluorescence anisotropy of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). We find that the fluorescence anisotropy of GFP at a constant temperature decreases with increasing pressure. At atmospheric pressure, anisotropy decreases with increasing temperature but exhibits a maximum with temperature for pressure larger than 20 MPa. The temperature corresponding to the maximum of anisotropy increases with increasing pressure. By taking into account of the rotational correlation time changes of GFP with the pressure-temperature dependent viscosity of the solvent, we argue that viscosity increase with pressure is not a major contributing factor to the decrease in anisotropy with pressure. The decrease of anisotropy with pressure may result from changes in H-bonding environment around the chromophore.
Citation
Kaur, H., Nguyen, K., & Kumar, P. (2022). Pressure and Temperature Dependence of Fluorescence Anisotropy of Green Fluorescent Protein. RCS Advances, 12 (14), 8647. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ra08977c
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