Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 17, Issue 18, Pages 2931-2937Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201600235
Keywords
amyloid fibrils; circular dichroism; circularly polarized luminescence; thioflavin T; time-dependent density functional calculations
Funding
- Polish National Science Center [DEC-2012/05/B/ST4/01236]
- Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing
- Norwegian Supercomputing Program [NN4654K]
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The circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectrum of thioflavin T (ThT) bound to insulin amyloid fibrils has been measured for the first time. It has been found that the samples exhibiting induced circular dichroism (CD) retain the optical activity in the CPL spectra, with the same sign of the rotatory strength. The fluorescence dissymmetry factor is substantial (of the order of magnitude 10 - 2). Unlike in the corresponding CD and absorption spectra, there is no shift of the CPL band with respect to the fluorescence band. It has been verified that the measured CPL spectra are free from artifacts from circularly polarized scattering of emitted light by conducting additional measurements in a medium with a refractive index similar to insulin (methylsalicylate). The CD and CPL spectra have been interpreted by means of density functional calculations carried out for ThT in its ground and first excited states in different dielectric environments and for ThT interacting with an aromatic ring. It has been found that the presence of an aromatic ring close to the ThT molecule induces Cotton effects of the same order of magnitude as the stabilization of one enantiomeric conformer. Thus, it is expected that both mechanisms contribute to the induced CD and CPL effect to a similar degree.
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