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FLUORESCENCE INVESTIGATIONS OF ALBUMIN FROM PATIENTS WITH FAMILIAL DYSALBUMINEMIC HYPERTHYROXINEMIA *
Author(s) -
Dughi Coco,
Bhagavan Nadhipuram V.,
Jamesont David M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1993.tb02311.x
Subject(s) - human serum albumin , tryptophan , chemistry , fluorescence , quenching (fluorescence) , quantum yield , sodium dodecyl sulfate , chromatography , gel electrophoresis , biochemistry , amino acid , physics , quantum mechanics
Familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia (FDH) is an autosomal dominant syndrome in which clinically euthyroid patients have elevated total thyroxine levels. These high serum thyroxine levels are traceable to altered binding of thyroxine to the patient's albumin. Albumin from FDH patients and normal volunteers have been purified. Reverse‐phase and ion‐exchange high performance liquid chromatography and sodium dodecyl sulfate‐polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis on the FDH‐human serum albumin (HSA) samples show a single band that comigrates with normal HSA. In both protein solutions the intrinsic fluorescence, upon 280 nm excitation, is predominantly due to the single tryptophan residue. The quantum yield of this intrinsic fluorescence in the FDH‐HSA solutions is, however, reduced relative to that of HSA. Furthermore, the “average” lifetime value of the tryptophan emission in the FDH‐HSA sample is less than that of normal HSA, consistent with its reduced quantum yield. The binding of thyroxine to both albumins effectively quenches the tryptophan emission probably via a nonradiative energy transfer mechanism. Time‐resolved data suggest that the albumin from the dysalbuminemic patients is actually an approximately equimolar mixture of normal HSA and FDH‐HSA indicative of heterologous expression. Quenching of the intrinsic HSA and FDH‐HSA fluorescence by serial additions of thyroxine showed enhanced quenching of FDH‐HSA relative to HSA at any T4 to albumin mole ratio, therefore supporting earlier reports of increased thyroxine affinity to FDH‐HSA.