The effect of a potent antimicrobial compound bearing 1,2,3-triazole core and a tryptophan tail, triazole-tryptophan hybrid (TTH), with bovine serum albumin (BSA) have been explored using various spectroscopic and molecular docking methods. Studies revealed that TTH strongly quenches the intrinsic fluorophore of BSA by a static quenching mechanism. Time-resolved fluorescence spectra further confirmed the involvement of static quenching for TTH-BSA system. The calculated thermodynamic parameters; ΔH, ΔS, and ΔG showed that the binding process was spontaneous, exothermic and entropy driven. Synchronous fluorescence, three-dimensional (3D) fluorescence and circular dichroism data revealed that TTH induces the structural alteration in BSA and enhances its stability. In silico study of TTH-BSA system showed that it binds with BSA at the site I of subdomain IIA. Both the experimental and in silico study showed that the hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions play a major role in TTH-BSA binding.
Keywords: UV-visible; bovine serum albumin; fluorescence; molecular docking; time resolved; triazole-tryptophan hybrid.
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