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Bruining J, Fijnaut HM. A rotational diffusion coefficient of the 70S ribosome determined by depolarized laser light scattering. Biophys Chem. 1975;9(4):345-53
Bruining, J., & Fijnaut, H. M. (1975). A rotational diffusion coefficient of the 70S ribosome determined by depolarized laser light scattering. Biophysical chemistry, 9(4), 345-53.
Bruining, J, and Fijnaut, H M. "A rotational diffusion coefficient of the 70S ribosome determined by depolarized laser light scattering." Biophysical chemistry vol. 9,4 (1975): 345-53.
Bruining J, Fijnaut HM. A rotational diffusion coefficient of the 70S ribosome determined by depolarized laser light scattering. Biophys Chem. 1975 May;9(4):345-53. PMID: 16997200.
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Biophys Chem. 1975 May;9(4):345-53.

A rotational diffusion coefficient of the 70S ribosome determined by depolarized laser light scattering.

Biophysical chemistry

J Bruining, H M Fijnaut

Affiliations

  1. Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular Biology Section and Van 't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

PMID: 16997200

Abstract

We have obtained a rotational diffusion coefficient of the 70S ribosome isolated from Escherichia-coli (MRE-600), from the depolarized light scattering spectrum measured by photon correlation spectroscopy. The intensity correlation function of depolarized scattered light contains contributions due to multiple scattered and anisotropy scattered light from the ribosomal particle. We discuss extensively the subtraction procedure used to obtain the rotational correlation time from the experimental correlation function. We have also obtained the translational diffusion coefficient from the same sample by determining the polarized correlation function. The hydrodynamic radius determined from the rotational diffusion coefficient is only slightly larger than the radius obtained from the translational diffusion coefficient. Therefore the ribosomal particle has a non-spherical shape. This conclusion, however, could be impaired by the effect of free draining of the ribosome.

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