作者: Daiana T. Mancini , Kakali Sen , Mario Barbatti , Walter Thiel , Teodorico C. Ramalho
关键词: Amino acid 、 Binding site 、 Proton 、 Excited state 、 Photochemistry 、 Fluorescence 、 Benzothiazole 、 Enol 、 Molecular dynamics 、 Chemistry
摘要: We show by quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations that phenylbenzothiazoles undergoing an excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) can be used to probe protein binding sites. For 2-(2'-hydroxy-4'-aminophenyl)benzothiazole (HABT) bound a tyrosine kinase, the absolute and relative intensities of fluorescence bands arising from enol keto forms are found strongly dependent on active-site conformation. The emission properties tuned hydrogen-bonding interactions HABT with neighboring amino acid T766 water. use ESPT tuners opens possibility creating two-color fluorescent markers for sites, potential applications in detection mutations cancer cell lines.