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Fidalgo-Marijuan A, Ruiz de Larramendi I, Barandika G. Superprotonic Conductivity in a Metalloporphyrin-Based SMOF (Supramolecular Metal-Organic Framework). NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:398. [PMID: 38470729 PMCID: PMC10934030 DOI: 10.3390/nano14050398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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Metal-organic frameworks and supramolecular metal-organic frameworks (SMOFs) exhibit great potential for a broad range of applications taking advantage of the high surface area and pore sizes and tunable chemistry. In particular, metalloporphyrin-based MOFs and SMOFs are becoming of great importance in many fields due to the bioessential functions of these macrocycles that are being mimicked. On the other hand, during the last years, proton-conducting materials have aroused much interest, and those presenting high conductivity values are potential candidates to play a key role in some solid-state electrochemical devices such as batteries and fuel cells. In this way, using metalloporphyrins as building units we have obtained a new crystalline material with formula [H(bipy)]2[(MnTPPS)(H2O)2]·2bipy·14H2O, where bipy is 4,4'-bipyidine and TPPS4- is the meso-tetra(4-sulfonatephenyl) porphyrin. The crystal structure shows a zig-zag water chain along the [100] direction located between the sulfonate groups of the porphyrin. Taking into account those structural features, the compound was tested for proton conduction by complex electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The as-obtained conductivity is 1 × 10-2 S·cm-1 at 40 °C and 98% relative humidity, which is a remarkably high value.
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- Arkaitz Fidalgo-Marijuan
- Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Spain;
- BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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- Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Spain;
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- Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Spain;
- BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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Kinoshita M, Kim JY, Kume S, Sakakibara Y, Sugiki T, Kojima C, Kurisu G, Ikegami T, Hase T, Kimata-Ariga Y, Lee YH. Physicochemical nature of interfaces controlling ferredoxin NADP(+) reductase activity through its interprotein interactions with ferredoxin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2015; 1847:1200-11. [PMID: 26087388 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2015] [Revised: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 05/29/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Although acidic residues of ferredoxin (Fd) are known to be essential for activities of various Fd-dependent enzymes, including ferredoxin NADP(+) reductase (FNR) and sulfite reductase (SiR), through electrostatic interactions with basic residues of partner enzymes, non-electrostatic contributions such as hydrophobic forces remain largely unknown. We herein demonstrated that intermolecular hydrophobic and charge-charge interactions between Fd and enzymes were both critical for enzymatic activity. Systematic site-directed mutagenesis, which altered physicochemical properties of residues on the interfaces of Fd for FNR /SiR, revealed various changes in activities of both enzymes. The replacement of serine 43 of Fd to a hydrophobic residue (S43W) and charged residue (S43D) increased and decreased FNR activity, respectively, while S43W showed significantly lower SiR activity without affecting SiR activity by S43D, suggesting that hydrophobic and electrostatic interprotein forces affected FNR activity. Enzyme kinetics revealed that changes in FNR activity by mutating Fd correlated with Km, but not with kcat or activation energy, indicating that interprotein interactions determined FNR activity. Calorimetry-based binding thermodynamics between Fd and FNR showed different binding modes of FNR to wild-type, S43W, or S43D, which were controlled by enthalpy and entropy, as shown by the driving force plot. Residue-based NMR spectroscopy of (15)N FNR with Fds also revealed distinct binding modes of each complex based on different directions of NMR peak shifts with similar overall chemical shift differences. We proposed that subtle adjustments in both hydrophobic and electrostatic forces were critical for enzymatic activity, and these results may be applicable to protein-based electron transfer systems.
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- Misaki Kinoshita
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Cellular Function Imaging Team, Division of Bio-function Dynamics Imaging, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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Quintas PO, Cepeda AP, Borges N, Catarino T, Turner DL. Relative importance of driving force and electrostatic interactions in the reduction of multihaem cytochromes by small molecules. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1827:745-50. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2012] [Revised: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 02/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Srivastava SK, Gayathri S, Manjasetty BA, Gopal B. Analysis of conformational variation in macromolecular structural models. PLoS One 2012; 7:e39993. [PMID: 22808083 PMCID: PMC3392262 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2012] [Accepted: 05/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Experimental conditions or the presence of interacting components can lead to variations in the structural models of macromolecules. However, the role of these factors in conformational selection is often omitted by in silico methods to extract dynamic information from protein structural models. Structures of small peptides, considered building blocks for larger macromolecular structural models, can substantially differ in the context of a larger protein. This limitation is more evident in the case of modeling large multi-subunit macromolecular complexes using structures of the individual protein components. Here we report an analysis of variations in structural models of proteins with high sequence similarity. These models were analyzed for sequence features of the protein, the role of scaffolding segments including interacting proteins or affinity tags and the chemical components in the experimental conditions. Conformational features in these structural models could be rationalized by conformational selection events, perhaps induced by experimental conditions. This analysis was performed on a non-redundant dataset of protein structures from different SCOP classes. The sequence-conformation correlations that we note here suggest additional features that could be incorporated by in silico methods to extract dynamic information from protein structural models.
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation and Unit of Virus Host-Cell Interactions (UVHCI), Grenoble, France
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- * E-mail: (SKS); (BG)
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Physiological function of soluble cytochrome c-552 from alkaliphilic Pseudomonas alcaliphila AL15-21(T). J Bioenerg Biomembr 2011; 43:473-81. [PMID: 21766198 DOI: 10.1007/s10863-011-9376-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Accepted: 06/21/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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It has been found that the alkaliphilic Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas alcaliphila AL15-21(T) produces a larger amount of soluble c-type cytochromes at pH 10.0 under air-limited condition than at pH 7.0 under high aeration. Cytochrome c-552 was confirmed as the major c-type cytochrome among three soluble c-type cytochromes in the strain. To understand the physiological function of cytochrome c-552, a P. alcaliphila AL15-21(T) cytochrome c-552 gene deletion mutant without a marker gene was constructed by electrotransformation adjusted in this study for the strain. The maximum specific growth rate and maximum cell turbidity of cells grown at pHs 7.0 and 10.0 under the high-aeration condition did not differ significantly between the wild-type and cytochrome c-552 deletion mutant strains. In the mutant grown at pH 10.0 under low-aeration condition, marked decreases in the maximum specific growth rate (40%) and maximum cell turbidity (25%) compared with the wild type were observed. On the other hand, the oxygen consumption rates of cell suspensions of the mutant obtained by the growth at pH 10 under low-aeration condition were slightly higher than that of the wild type. Considering the high electron-retaining ability of cytochrome c-552, the above observations could be accounted for by cytochrome c-552 acting as an electron sink in the periplasmic space. This may facilitate terminal oxidation in the respiratory system at high pH under air-limited conditions.
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Homotropic and heterotropic interactions in cytochromes c
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from sulphate reducing bacteria. FEBS Lett 2011; 586:494-503. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2011] [Accepted: 07/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Quintas PO, Catarino T, Todorovic S, Turner DL. Highly selective ligand binding by Methylophilus methylotrophus cytochrome c''. Biochemistry 2011; 50:5624-32. [PMID: 21599015 DOI: 10.1021/bi200480a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cytochrome c'' (cyt c'') from Methylophilus methylotrophus is unusual insofar as the heme has two axial histidine ligands in the oxidized form but one is detached when the protein is reduced. Despite cyt c'' having an axial site available for binding small ligands, we show here that only NO binds readily to the ferrous cyt c''. Binding of CO, as well as CN(-), on the other hand requires considerable structural reorganization, or reduction of the disulfide bridge close to the heme. Standard free energies for the binding of NO and CO reveal high selectivity of the ferrous cyt c'' for NO, indicating its putative physiological role. In this work, we characterize in detail the kinetics of NO binding and the structural features of the Fe(2+)-NO adduct by stopped-flow and resonance Raman spectroscopy, respectively.
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- Pedro O Quintas
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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Meyer TE, Kyndt JA, Cusanovich MA. Occurrence and sequence of Sphaeroides Heme Protein and diheme cytochrome C in purple photosynthetic bacteria in the family Rhodobacteraceae. BMC BIOCHEMISTRY 2010; 11:24. [PMID: 20587053 PMCID: PMC2909971 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-11-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2009] [Accepted: 06/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Background Sphaeroides Heme Protein (SHP) was discovered in the purple photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, and is the only known c-type heme protein that binds oxygen. Although initially not believed to be widespread among the photosynthetic bacteria, the gene has now been found in more than 40 species of proteobacteria and generally appears to be regulated. Rb. sphaeroides is exceptional in not having regulatory genes associated with the operon. We have thus analyzed additional purple bacteria for the SHP gene and examined the genetic context to obtain new insights into the operon, its distribution, and possible function. Results We found SHP in 9 out of 10 strains of Rb. sphaeroides and in 5 out of 10 purple photosynthetic bacterial species in the family Rhodobacteraceae. We found a remarkable similarity within the family including the lack of regulatory genes. Within the proteobacteria as a whole, SHP is part of a 3-6 gene operon that includes a membrane-spanning diheme cytochrome b and one or two diheme cytochromes c. Other genes in the operon include one of three distinct sensor kinase - response regulators, depending on species, that are likely to regulate SHP. Conclusions SHP is not as rare as generally believed and has a role to play in the photosynthetic bacteria. Furthermore, the two companion cytochromes along with SHP are likely to function as an electron transfer pathway that results in the reduction of SHP by quinol and formation of the oxygen complex, which may function as an oxygenase. The three distinct sensors suggest at least as many separate functional roles for SHP. Two of the sensors are not well characterized, but the third is homologous to the QseC quorum sensor, which is present in a number of pathogens and typically appears to regulate genes involved in virulence.
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- Terry E Meyer
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, USA.
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Noronha M, Santos R, Paci E, Santos H, Maçanita AL. Fluorescence lifetimes of tyrosine residues in cytochrome c'' as local probes to study protein unfolding. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:4466-74. [PMID: 19249841 DOI: 10.1021/jp805781r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy was used to show that multiple tyrosine residues of a protein can serve as localized probes of structural changes during thermal unfolding. Cytochrome c'' from Methylophilus methylotrophus, which has four tyrosine residues, was chosen as a model protein. The procedure involved, first, the assignment of the experimental decay times to the tyrosine residues, followed by the interpretation of the changes in the decay times and pre-exponential coefficients with temperature. We found that the fluorescence decays of cytochrome c'' are double-exponential from 23 to 80 degrees C, with decay times much shorter than those of the parent compound N-acetyl-tyrosinamide; this quenching was ascribed to dipole-dipole energy transfer from the tyrosine residues to the heme. The tyrosine-heme distances (R) and theoretical decay times, tau(comp), were estimated for each tyrosine residue. The analysis of the simulated decay generated with tau(comp), showed that a double-exponential fit is sufficient to describe the four decay times with two pre-exponential coefficients close to values observed from the experimental decay. Therefore, the decay times at 23 degrees C could be assigned to the individual tyrosine residues as tau(1) to Tyr-10 and Tyr-23 (at 20.3 A) and tau(2) to Tyr-12 and Tyr-115 (at 12-14 A). On the basis of this assignment and MD simulations, the temperature dependence of the decay times and pre-exponential coefficients suggest that upon unfolding, Tyr-12 is displaced from the heme, with loss of the structure of alpha-helix I. Moreover, Tyr-115 remains close to the heme and the structure in this region of the protein is not altered significantly. Altogether the data support the view that the protein core, comprising the heme and the four alpha-helices II to V, is clearly more stable than the remaining region that includes alpha-helix I and the loop between residues 19-27.
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- Melinda Noronha
- Departamento de Quimica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal
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Londer YY, Giuliani SE, Peppler T, Collart FR. Addressing Shewanella oneidensis “cytochromome”: The first step towards high-throughput expression of cytochromes c. Protein Expr Purif 2008; 62:128-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2008.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Accepted: 06/23/2008] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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