PMID- 17768708 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080424 LR - 20071126 IS - 1522-7235 (Print) IS - 1522-7235 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 6 DP - 2007 Nov-Dec TI - Fluorescence quenching of serum albumin by rifamycin antibiotics and their analytical application. PG - 559-66 AB - In neutral medium, rifamycin antibiotics such as rifapentin (RFPT), rifampicin (RFP), rifandin (RFD) and rifamycin SV (RFSV) can bind with human serum albumin (HSA) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) to form complexes, resulting in the quenching of the intrinsic fluorescence (lambda(ex)/lambda(em) = 285/355 nm) of the BSA and HSA. The quenching intensity (DeltaF) is directly proportional to the concentration of the rifamycin antibiotics. Therefore, a new analytical method was established to determine trace rifamycin antibiotics. The method had fairly high sensitivity and the detecting limits (3sigma) for RFPT, RFP, RFD and RFSV were 0.85, 0.98, 1.83, 1.89 ng/mL, respectively, for the HSA system and 0.76, 0.89, 1.55, 1.77 ng/mL, respectively, for the BSA system. All relative standard deviations (RSDs) were <3.8%. In this work, the characteristics of the fluorescence spectra were studied and the optimum reaction conditions and influencing factors were investigated. The influence of coexisting substances was tested and the results showed that the method had good selectivity and could be applied to determine trace rifamycin antibiotics in medicine capsules and urine samples. Taking the RFSV-serum albumin system as an example, the reaction mechanisms, such as binding constants, binding sites, binding distance and the type of fluorescence quenching, were investigated. CI - Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. FAU - Yang, Ji-Dong AU - Yang JD AD - School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China. FAU - Deng, Shi-Xing AU - Deng SX FAU - Liu, Zhong-Fang AU - Liu ZF FAU - Kong, Ling AU - Kong L FAU - Liu, Shao-Pu AU - Liu SP LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Luminescence JT - Luminescence : the journal of biological and chemical luminescence JID - 100889025 RN - 0 (Anti-Bacterial Agents) RN - 0 (Rifamycins) RN - 0 (Serum Albumin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Anti-Bacterial Agents/*analysis/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Binding Sites MH - Cattle MH - Energy Transfer MH - Humans MH - Rifamycins/*analysis/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Serum Albumin/*analysis/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Spectrometry, Fluorescence EDAT- 2007/09/05 09:00 MHDA- 2008/04/25 09:00 CRDT- 2007/09/05 09:00 PHST- 2007/09/05 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/04/25 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/09/05 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/bio.1001 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Luminescence. 2007 Nov-Dec;22(6):559-66. doi: 10.1002/bio.1001.