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Infrared difference spectroscopy probes vibrational changes of proteins upon their perturbation. Compared with other spectroscopic methods, it stands out by its sensitivity to the protonation state, H-bonding, and the conformation of different groups in proteins, including the peptide backbone, amino acid side chains, internal water molecules, or cofactors. In particular, the detection of protonation and H-bonding changes in a time-resolved manner, not easily obtained by other techniques, is one of the most successful applications of IR difference spectroscopy. The present review deals with the use of perturbations designed to specifically change the protein between two (or more) functionally relevant states, a strategy often referred to as reaction-induced IR difference spectroscopy. In the first half of this contribution, I review the technique of reaction-induced IR difference spectroscopy of proteins, with special emphasis given to the preparation of suitable samples and their characterization, strategies for the perturbation of proteins, and methodologies for time-resolved measurements (from nanoseconds to minutes). The second half of this contribution focuses on the spectral interpretation. It starts by reviewing how changes in H-bonding, medium polarity, and vibrational coupling affect vibrational frequencies, intensities, and bandwidths. It is followed by band assignments, a crucial aspect mostly performed with the help of isotopic labeling and site-directed mutagenesis, and complemented by integration and interpretation of the results in the context of the studied protein, an aspect increasingly supported by spectral calculations. Selected examples from the literature, predominately but not exclusively from retinal proteins, are used to illustrate the topics covered in this review.
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Excited State Frequencies of Chlorophyll f and Chlorophyll a and Evaluation of Displacement through Franck-Condon Progression Calculations. Molecules 2019; 24:molecules24071326. [PMID: 30987301 PMCID: PMC6479460 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24071326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2019] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We present ground and excited state frequency calculations of the recently discovered extremely red-shifted chlorophyll f. We discuss the experimentally available vibrational mode assignments of chlorophyll f and chlorophyll a which are characterised by particularly large downshifts of 131-keto mode in the excited state. The accuracy of excited state frequencies and their displacements are evaluated by the construction of Franck–Condon (FC) and Herzberg–Teller (HT) progressions at the CAM-B3LYP/6-31G(d) level. Results show that while CAM-B3LYP results are improved relative to B3LYP calculations, the displacements and downshifts of high-frequency modes are underestimated still, and that the progressions calculated for low temperature are dominated by low-frequency modes rather than fingerprint modes that are Resonant Raman active.
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Evaluation of photosynthetic activities in thylakoid membranes by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2018; 1859:129-136. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2017.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Revised: 11/16/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Biologically synthesized silver nanoparticles enhances antibiotic activity against Gram-negative bacteria. J IND ENG CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2015.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Gurunathan S, Jeong JK, Han JW, Zhang XF, Park JH, Kim JH. Multidimensional effects of biologically synthesized silver nanoparticles in Helicobacter pylori, Helicobacter felis, and human lung (L132) and lung carcinoma A549 cells. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2015; 10:35. [PMID: 25852332 PMCID: PMC4384991 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0747-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 01/10/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are prominent group of nanomaterials and are recognized for their diverse applications in various health sectors. This study aimed to synthesize the AgNPs using the leaf extract of Artemisia princeps as a bio-reductant. Furthermore, we evaluated the multidimensional effect of the biologically synthesized AgNPs in Helicobacter pylori, Helicobacter felis, and human lung (L132) and lung carcinoma (A549) cells. UV-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy confirmed the synthesis of AgNPs. X-ray diffraction (XRD) indicated that the AgNPs are specifically indexed to a crystal structure. The results from Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) indicate that biomolecules are involved in the synthesis and stabilization of AgNPs. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) studies showed the average size distribution of the particle between 10 and 40 nm, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) confirmed that the AgNPs were significantly well separated and spherical with an average size of 20 nm. AgNPs caused dose-dependent decrease in cell viability and biofilm formation and increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and DNA fragmentation in H. pylori and H. felis. Furthermore, AgNPs induced mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis in A549 cells; conversely, AgNPs had no significant effects on L132 cells. The results from this study suggest that AgNPs could cause cell-specific apoptosis in mammalian cells. Our findings demonstrate that this environmentally friendly method for the synthesis of AgNPs and that the prepared AgNPs have multidimensional effects such as anti-bacterial and anti-biofilm activity against H. pylori and H. felis and also cytotoxic effects against human cancer cells. This report describes comprehensively the effects of AgNPs on bacteria and mammalian cells. We believe that biologically synthesized AgNPs will open a new avenue towards various biotechnological and biomedical applications in the near future.
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- Sangiliyandi Gurunathan
- />Department of Animal Biotechnology, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-Dong, Gwanjgin-gu, 143-701 Seoul South Korea
- />GS Institute of Bio and Nanotechnology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu India
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- />Department of Animal Biotechnology, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-Dong, Gwanjgin-gu, 143-701 Seoul South Korea
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- />Department of Animal Biotechnology, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-Dong, Gwanjgin-gu, 143-701 Seoul South Korea
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- />Department of Animal Biotechnology, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-Dong, Gwanjgin-gu, 143-701 Seoul South Korea
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- />Department of Animal Biotechnology, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-Dong, Gwanjgin-gu, 143-701 Seoul South Korea
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- />Department of Animal Biotechnology, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-Dong, Gwanjgin-gu, 143-701 Seoul South Korea
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Zabelin AA, Shkuropatova VA, Makhneva ZK, Moskalenko AA, Shuvalov VA, Shkuropatov AY. Chemically modified reaction centers of photosystem II: Exchange of pheophytin a with 7-deformyl-7-hydroxymethyl-pheophytin b. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:1870-1881. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2014] [Revised: 08/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy in photosynthesis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1847:2-11. [PMID: 24973600 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Revised: 06/17/2014] [Accepted: 06/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In recent years visible pump/mid-infrared (IR) probe spectroscopy has established itself as a key technology to unravel structure-function relationships underlying the photo-dynamics of complex molecular systems. In this contribution we review the most important applications of mid-infrared absorption difference spectroscopy with sub-picosecond time-resolution to photosynthetic complexes. Considering several examples, such as energy transfer in photosynthetic antennas and electron transfer in reaction centers and even more intact structures, we show that the acquisition of ultrafast time resolved mid-IR spectra has led to new insights into the photo-dynamics of the considered systems and allows establishing a direct link between dynamics and structure, further strengthened by the possibility of investigating the protein response signal to the energy or electron transfer processes. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Vibrational spectroscopies and bioenergetic systems.
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Shibuya Y, Takahashi R, Okubo T, Suzuki H, Sugiura M, Noguchi T. Hydrogen Bond Interactions of the Pheophytin Electron Acceptor and Its Radical Anion in Photosystem II As Revealed by Fourier Transform Infrared Difference Spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2009; 49:493-501. [DOI: 10.1021/bi9018829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Yuichi Shibuya
- Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Cell-Free Science and Technology Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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Pawlowicz NP, Groot ML, van Stokkum IHM, Breton J, van Grondelle R. Charge separation and energy transfer in the photosystem II core complex studied by femtosecond midinfrared spectroscopy. Biophys J 2007; 93:2732-42. [PMID: 17573421 PMCID: PMC1989691 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.105452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The core of photosystem II (PSII) of green plants contains the reaction center (RC) proteins D1D2-cytb559 and two core antennas CP43 and CP47. We have used time-resolved visible pump/midinfrared probe spectroscopy in the region between 1600 and 1800 cm(-1) to study the energy transfer and charge separation events within PSII cores. The absorption difference spectra in the region of the keto and ester chlorophyll modes show spectral evolution with time constants of 3 ps, 27 ps, 200 ps, and 2 ns. Comparison of infrared (IR) difference spectra obtained for the isolated antennas CP43 and CP47 and the D1D2-RC with those measured for the PSII core allowed us to identify the features specific for each of the PSII core components. From the presence of the CP43 and CP47 specific features in the spectra up to time delays of 20-30 ps, we conclude that the main part of the energy transfer from the antennas to the RC occurs on this timescale. Direct excitation of the pigments in the RC evolution associated difference spectra to radical pair formation of PD1+PheoD1- on the same timescale as multi-excitation annihilation and excited state equilibration within the antennas CP43 and CP47, which occur within approximately 1-3 ps. The formation of the earlier radical pair ChlD1+PheoD1-, as identified in isolated D1D2 complexes with time-resolved mid-IR spectroscopy is not observed in the current data, probably because of its relatively low concentration. Relaxation of the state PD1+PheoD1-, caused by a drop in free energy, occurs in 200 ps in closed cores. We conclude that the kinetic model proposed earlier for the energy and electron transfer dynamics within the D1D2-RC, plus two slowly energy-transferring antennas C43 and CP47 explain the complex excited state and charge separation dynamics in the PSII core very well. We further show that the time-resolved IR-difference spectrum of PD1+PheoD1- as observed in PSII cores is virtually identical to that observed in the isolated D1D2-RC complex of PSII, demonstrating that the local structure of the primary reactants has remained intact in the isolated D1D2 complex.
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- N P Pawlowicz
- Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Okubo T, Noguchi T. Selective detection of the structural changes upon photoreactions of several redox cofactors in photosystem II by means of light-induced ATR-FTIR difference spectroscopy. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2007; 66:863-8. [PMID: 16872888 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2006.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2006] [Revised: 04/08/2006] [Accepted: 05/02/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy was applied for the first time to detect the structural changes upon photoreactions of redox cofactors in photosystem II (PSII). The PSII-enriched membranes from spinach were adsorbed on the surface of a silicon prism, and FTIR measurements of various redox cofactors were performed for the same sample but under different conditions by exchanging buffers in a flow cell. Light-induced FTIR difference spectra upon redox reactions of the oxygen-evolving Mn cluster, the primary quinone electron acceptor QA, the redox-active tyrosine YD, the primary electron acceptor pheophytin, and the primary electron donor chlorophyll P680 were successively recorded in buffers including different redox reagents and inhibitors. All of these cofactors remained active in the PSII membranes on the silicon surface, and the resultant spectra were basically identical to those previously recorded by the conventional transmission method. These ATR-FTIR measurements enable accurate comparison between reactions of different active sites in a single PSII sample. The present results demonstrated that the ATR-FTIR spectroscopy is a useful technique for investigation of the reaction mechanism of PSII.
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- Tatsunori Okubo
- Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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Groot ML, Pawlowicz NP, van Wilderen LJGW, Breton J, van Stokkum IHM, van Grondelle R. Initial electron donor and acceptor in isolated Photosystem II reaction centers identified with femtosecond mid-IR spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:13087-92. [PMID: 16135567 PMCID: PMC1196200 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0503483102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Despite the apparent similarity between the plant Photosystem II reaction center (RC) and its purple bacterial counterpart, we show in this work that the mechanism of charge separation is very different for the two photosynthetic RCs. By using femtosecond visible-pump-mid-infrared probe spectroscopy in the region of the chlorophyll ester and keto modes, between 1,775 and 1,585 cm(-1), with 150-fs time resolution, we show that the reduction of pheophytin occurs on a 0.6- to 0.8-ps time scale, whereas P+, the precursor state for water oxidation, is formed after approximately 6 ps. We conclude therefore that in the Photosystem II RC the primary charge separation occurs between the "accessory chlorophyll" Chl(D1) and the pheophytin on the so-called active branch.
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- Marie Louise Groot
- Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Berthomieu C, Nabedryk E, Mäntele W, Breton J. Characterization by FTIR spectroscopy of the photoreduction of the primary quinone acceptor QA in photosystem II. FEBS Lett 2004; 269:363-7. [PMID: 15452972 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)81194-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Molecular changes associated with the photoreduction of the primary quinone acceptor Qa of photosystem II have been characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. This reaction was light-induced at room temperature on photosystem II membranes in the presence of hydroxylamine and diuron. A positive signal at 1478 cm-1 is assigned to the C---O stretching mode of the semiquinone anion, and can be correlated to the negative C=O mode(s) of the neutral QA at 1645 cm-1 and/or 16 cm-1. Analogies with bacterial reaction center are found in the amide I absorption range at 1672 cm-1, 1653 cm-1 and 1630 cm-1. The stabilization of QA- does not result from a large protein conformation change, but involves perturbations of several amino acid vibrations. At 1658 cm-1, a negative feature sensitive to 1H-2H exchange is tentatively assigned to a NH2 histidine mode, while tryptophan D2252 could contribute to the signal at 1560/1550 cm-1.
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- C Berthomieu
- Service de Biophysique, CEN Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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Breton J, Xu W, Diner BA, Chitnis PR. The two histidine axial ligands of the primary electron donor chlorophylls (P700) in photosystem I are similarly perturbed upon P700+ formation. Biochemistry 2002; 41:11200-10. [PMID: 12220185 DOI: 10.1021/bi0262404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The extent of delocalization of the positive charge in the oxidized dimer of chlorophyll (Chl) constituting P700, the primary electron donor of photosystem I (PSI), has been investigated by analyzing the perturbation upon P700(+) formation of infrared (IR) vibrational modes of the two His axial ligands of the two P700 Chl molecules. Fourier transform IR (FTIR) difference spectra of the photooxidation of P700 in PSI core complexes isolated from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 isotopically labeled either globally with (15)N or more specifically with (13)C on all the His residues reveal isotopic shifts of a differential signal at 1102/1108 cm(-)(1). This signal is assigned to a downshift upon P700(+) formation of the predominantly C(5)-Ntau imidazole stretching mode of His residue(s). The amplitude of this signal is reduced by approximately half in FTIR spectra of Synechocystis mutants in which His PsaB 651, the axial ligand to one of the two Chl molecules in P700, is replaced by Cys, Gln, or Leu. These observations provide further evidence that the positive charge in P700(+) is essentially delocalized over the two Chl molecules, in agreement with a previous FTIR study in which the frequency of the vibrational modes of the 9-keto and 10a-ester C=O groups of the two Chl's in P700, P700(+), and (3)P700 were firmly established for the first time [Breton, J., et al. (1999) Biochemistry 38, 11585-11592]. Only limited perturbations of the amplitude and frequency of the 9-keto and 10a-ester C=O bands of the P700 Chl are elicited by the mutations. On the basis of comparable mutational studies of the primary electron donor in purple bacteria, these perturbations are attributed to small molecular rearrangements of the Chl macrocycle and substituents caused by the repositioning of the P700 dimer in the new protein cavity generated by the mutations. It is proposed that the perturbation of the FTIR spectra upon mutation of a His axial ligand of the P700 Chl recently reported in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [Hastings, G., et al. (2001) Biochemistry 40, 12943-12949] can be explained by the same effect without the need for a new assignment of the C=O bands of P700. The distribution of charge/spin in P700(+) and (3)P700 determined by FTIR spectroscopy is discussed in relation with the contrasting interpretations derived from recent magnetic resonance experiments.
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- Jacques Breton
- Service de Bioénergétique, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Iwaki M, Andrianambinintsoa S, Rich P, Breton J. Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of redox transitions in photosynthetic reaction centers: comparison of perfusion- and light-induced difference spectra. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2002; 58:1523-1533. [PMID: 12083676 DOI: 10.1016/s1386-1425(02)00040-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Chemically induced Fourier transform infrared difference spectra associated with redox transitions of several primary electron donors and acceptors in photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) have been compared with the light-induced FTIR difference spectra involving the same cofactors. The RCs are deposited on an attenuated total reflection (ATR) prism and form a film that is enclosed in a flow cell. Redox transitions in the film of RCs can be repetitively induced either by perfusion of buffers poised at different redox potentials or by illumination. The perfusion-induced ATR-FTIR difference spectra for the oxidation of the primary electron donor P in the RCs of the purple bacteria Rb. sphaeroides and Rp. viridis and P700 in the photosystem 1 of Synechocystis 6803, as well as the Q(A)/Q(A) transition of the quinone acceptor (Q(A)) in Rb. sphaeroides RCs are reported for the first time. They are compared with the light-induced ATR-FTIR difference spectra P+Q(A)/PQ(A) for the RCs of Rb. sphaeroides and P700+/P700 for photosystem 1. It is shown that the perfusion-induced and light-induced ATR-FTIR difference spectra recorded on the same RC film display identical signal to noise ratios when they are measured under comparable conditions. The ATR-FTIR difference spectra are very similar to the equivalent FTIR difference spectra previously recorded upon photochemical or electrochemical excitation of these RCs in the more conventional transmission mode. The ATR-FTIR technique requires a smaller amount of sample compared with transmission FTIR and allows precise control of the aqueous environment of the RC films.
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Kim S, Sacksteder CA, Bixby KA, Barry BA. A reaction-induced FT-IR study of cyanobacterial photosystem I. Biochemistry 2001; 40:15384-95. [PMID: 11735422 DOI: 10.1021/bi0110241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In oxygenic photosynthesis, photosystem I (PSI) conducts light-driven electron transfer from plastocyanin to ferredoxin. The reactions are initiated when the primary chlorophyll donor, P(700), is photooxidized. P(700) is a chlorophyll dimer ligated by the core subunits psaA and psaB. A difference Fourier transform infrared spectrum, associated with P(700)(+)-minus-P(700), can be acquired using PSI from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. This spectrum reflects contributions from oxidation-sensitive modes of chlorophyll, as well as from oxidation-induced structural changes in amino acid residues and the peptide backbone. Oxidation-induced structural changes may play a role in the facilitation and control of electron-transfer reactions involving the primary donor. In this paper, we report that photooxidation of P(700) in cyanobacterial PSI perturbs a cysteine residue. At 264 and 80 K, a downshift of a SH stretching vibration from 2560 to 2551 cm(-1) is observed. Such a downshift is consistent with an increase in hydrogen bonding, with a change in C-S-H conformation, or with an electric field effect. Deuterium exchange experiments were also performed. While the perturbed cysteine is in a protein region that is resistant to exchange, other (2)H-sensitive vibrational chl and amino acid bands were observed. From the (2)H exchange experiments, we conclude that photooxidation of P(700) perturbs internal or bound water molecules in PSI and that the P(700)(+)-minus-P(700) spectrum is (2)H exchange-sensitive. The results are consistent with structural complexity in the PSI primary donor, as previously suggested [Kim, S., and Barry, B. A. (2000) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 4980-4981]. Possible explanations, including a partial enolization of P(700)(+), are discussed.
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- S Kim
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108-1022, USA
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Breton J. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of primary electron donors in type I photosynthetic reaction centers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1507:180-93. [PMID: 11687214 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(01)00206-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The vibrational properties of the primary electron donors (P) of type I photosynthetic reaction centers, as investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy in the last 15 years, are briefly reviewed. The results obtained on the microenvironment of the chlorophyll molecules in P700 of photosystem I and of the bacteriochlorophyll molecules in P840 of the green bacteria (Chlorobium) and in P798 of heliobacteria are presented and discussed with special attention to the bonding interactions with the protein of the carbonyl groups and of the central Mg atom of the pigments. The observation of broad electronic transitions in the mid-IR for the cationic state of all the primary donors investigated provides evidence for charge repartition over two (B)Chl molecules. In the green sulfur bacteria and the heliobacteria, the assignments proposed for the carbonyl groups of P and P(+) are still very tentative. In contrast, the axial ligands of P700 in photosystem I have been identified and the vibrational properties of the chlorophyll (Chl) molecules involved in P700, P700(+), and (3)P700 are well described in terms of two molecules, denoted P(1) and P(2), with very different hydrogen bonding patterns. While P(1) has hydrogen bonds to both the 9-keto and the 10a-ester C=O groups and bears all the triplet character in (3)P700, the carbonyl groups of P(2) are free from hydrogen bonding. The positive charge in P700(+) is shared between the two Chl molecules with a ratio ranging from 1:1 to 2:1, in favor of P(2), depending on the temperature and the species. The localization of the triplet in (3)P700 and of the unpaired electron in P700(+) deduced from FTIR spectroscopy is in sharp contrast with that resulting from the analysis of the magnetic resonance experiments. However, the FTIR results are in excellent agreement with the most recent structural model derived from X-ray crystallography of photosystem I at 2.5 A resolution that reveals the hydrogen bonds to the carbonyl groups of the Chl in P700 as well as the histidine ligands of the central Mg atoms predicted from the FTIR data.
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- J Breton
- SBE/DBCM, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Cedex, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Kim S, Barry BA. Identification of Carbonyl Modes of P700 and P700+ by in situ Chlorophyll Labeling in Photosystem I†. J Am Chem Soc 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/ja000512d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Sunyoung Kim
- University of Minnesota Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Biophysics St. Paul, Minnesota 55108-1022
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- University of Minnesota Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Biophysics St. Paul, Minnesota 55108-1022
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Breton J, Nabedryk E, Leibl W. FTIR study of the primary electron donor of photosystem I (P700) revealing delocalization of the charge in P700(+) and localization of the triplet character in (3)P700. Biochemistry 1999; 38:11585-92. [PMID: 10512612 DOI: 10.1021/bi991216k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The effect of global (15)N or (2)H labeling on the light-induced P700(+)/P700 FTIR difference spectra has been investigated in photosystem I samples from Synechocystis at 90 K. The small isotope-induced frequency shifts of the carbonyl modes observed in the P700(+)/P700 spectra are compared to those of isolated chlorophyll a. This comparison shows that bands at 1749 and 1733 cm(-)(1) and at 1697 and 1637 cm(-)(1), which upshift upon formation of P700(+), are candidates for the 10a-ester and 9-keto C=O groups of P700, respectively. A broad and relatively weak band peaking at 3300 cm(-)(1), which does not shift upon global labeling or (1)H-(2)H exchange, is ascribed to an electronic transition of P700(+), indicating that at least two chlorophyll a molecules (denoted P(1) and P(2)) participate in P700(+). Comparisons of the (3)P700/P700 FTIR difference spectrum at 90 K with spectra of triplet formation in isolated chlorophyll a or in RCs from photosystem II or purple bacteria identify the bands at 1733 and 1637 cm(-)(1), which downshift upon formation of (3)P700, as the 10a-ester and 9-keto C=O modes, respectively, of the half of P700 that bears the triplet (P(1)). Thus, while the P(2) carbonyls are free from interaction, both the 10a-ester and the 9-keto C=O of P(1) are hydrogen bonded and the latter group is drastically perturbed compared to chlorophyll a in solution. The Mg atoms of P(1) and P(2) appear to be five-coordinated. No localization of the triplet on the P(2) half of P700 is observed in the temperature range of 90-200 K. Upon P700 photooxidation, the 9-keto C=O bands of P(1) and P(2) upshift by almost the same amount, giving rise to the 1656(+)/1637(-) and 1717(+)/1697(-) cm(-)(1) differential signals, respectively. The relative amplitudes of these differential signals, as well as of those of the 10a-ester C=O modes, appear to be slightly dependent on sample orientation and temperature and on the organism used to generate the P700(+)/P700 spectrum. If it is assumed that the charge density on ring V of chlorophyll a, as measured by the perturbation of the 10a-ester or 9-keto C=O IR vibrations, mainly reflects the spin density on the two halves of the oxidized P700 special pair, a charge distribution ranging from 1:1 to 2:1 (in favor of P(2)) is deduced from the measurements presented here. The extreme downshift of the 9-keto C=O group of P(1), indicative of an unusually strong hydrogen bond, is discussed in relation with the models previously proposed for the PSI special pair.
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- J Breton
- Section de Bioénergétique, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Yruela I, Allakhverdiev SI, Ibarra JV, Klimov VV. Bicarbonate binding to the water-oxidizing complex in the photosystem II. A Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy study. FEBS Lett 1998; 425:396-400. [PMID: 9563501 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00271-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The light-induced Fourier transform infrared difference (FT-IR) spectrum originating from the donor side of O2-evolving photosystem (PS) II was obtained in non-depleted and CO2-depleted PSII membrane preparations. The observed spectrum free of contributions from the acceptor side signals was achieved by employing 2 mM/18 mM ferri-/ferrocyanide as a redox couple. This spectrum showed main positive bands at 1589 and 1365 cm(-1) and negative bands at 1560, 1541, 1522 and 1507 cm(-1). CO-depleted PSII preparations showed a quite different spectrum. The main positive and negative bands disappeared after depletion of bicarbonate. The addition of bicarbonate partially restored those bands again. Comparison between difference FT-IR spectra of untreated and bicarbonate-depleted PSII membranes indicated that the positive bands at 1589 and 1365 cm(-1) can be assigned to COO- stretching modes from bicarbonate. The higher frequency corresponds to u[as] (COO-) and the lower frequency to u[s] (COO-). 13C-Labeling FT-IR measurements confirmed these findings and also suggested that the negative band at 1560 cm(-1) can be ascribed to u[as] (COO-). The data are discussed in the framework of the suggestion that bicarbonate can be a ligand to the Mn-containing water-oxidizing complex of PSII.
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- I Yruela
- Estación Experimental Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Zaragoza, Spain.
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Hienerwadel R, Boussac A, Breton J, Berthomieu C. Fourier transform infrared difference study of tyrosineD oxidation and plastoquinone QA reduction in photosystem II. Biochemistry 1996; 35:15447-60. [PMID: 8952498 DOI: 10.1021/bi961952d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Two redox active tyrosines are present in the homologous polypeptides D1 and D2 of photo-system II (PS II). TyrZ (D1-161) is involved in the electron transfer reactions resulting in oxygen evolution, while TyrD (D2-160) usually forms a dark-stable radical. In Mn-depleted PS II, TyrD. can be slowly reduced by exogenous reductants. Charge separation then results in the oxidation of TyrD and TyrZ and the reduction of the primary electron acceptor QA. The semiquinone QA- can be reoxidized by oxidants like ferricyanide. In the present work, experimental conditions leading to the generation of pure QA-/QA or TyrD./TyrD FTIR difference spectra have been optimized. Therefore, single-turnover flashes or short illuminations were performed on PS II samples in the presence of exogenous reductants or oxidants. The QA- and TyrD. radicals were generated with high yield and with a lifetime of several seconds or minutes allowing averaging of FTIR difference spectra with high signal to noise ratio. Both QA- formation and contributions at the electron donor side of PS II were monitored by EPR spectroscopy. In PS II samples at pH 6 in the presence of PMS, NH2OH, and DCMU, EPR measurements show that QA- is formed with high yield upon a 1 s illumination at 10 degrees C, while no radical from the electron donor side of PS II is detected. Therefore the QA-/QA FTIR spectrum obtained in these conditions shows only vibrational changes due to QA reduction in PS II. In contrast, a similar spectrum was recently interpreted in terms of dominant contributions from Chl+/Chl signals [MacDonald, G. M., Steenhuis, J. J., & Barry, B. A. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 8420-8428], although the contribution from the electron acceptor QA was not quantified. In particular, it is shown here that the large positive signal at 1478 cm-1 is due to the QA- state and not to a Chl+ mode. This band is not downshifted upon 15N-labeling of spinach PS II membranes within the +/- 1 cm-1 accuracy of the method and is therefore tentatively assigned to the v(C[symbol: see text]O) mode of the plastosemiquinone QA-. Also unchanged upon 15N-labeling, signals at 1644 and/or 1630 cm-1 are possible candidates for the v(C = O) mode(s) of neutral QA in PS II. The TyrD./TyrD FTIR spectrum is recorded at 4 degrees C on Tris-washed PS II membranes from spinach at pH 6 in the presence of phosphate, formate, and ferricyanide. EPR experiments performed on these samples show that almost all TyrD. is formed upon a 1 s illumination at 4 degrees C and that TyrD. is then reduced within 12 min in the dark. No contributions from TyrZ. or QA- are detected 2 s after illumination. It is thus possible to optimize experimental conditions to record the FTIR difference spectrum only due to TyrD photooxidation in PS II-enriched membranes of spinach. The TyrD./TyrD FTIR spectrum is compared to a cresol./cresol FTIR difference spectrum obtained by UV irradiation at 10 K of cresol at pH 8. The spectral analogies observed between the in vivo and in vitro spectra recorded either in H2O or in D2O suggest that IR modes of TyrD contribute at 1513 and 1252 cm-1. These frequencies are characteristic of a protonated tyrosine. A positive signal is observed at 1506 cm-1 for cresol. and at 1504 cm-1 for the TyrD. state. This suggests contribution of the TyrD. side chain at 1504 cm-1. A band at 1473 cm-1 was previously assigned to the v(CO) mode of TyrD. [MacDonald, G. M., Bixby, K. A., & Barry, B. A. (1993) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90, 11024-11028]. In contrast, no positive signal is observed at 1473 cm-1 in the TyrD./TyrD FTIR difference spectrum presented here. The TyrD./TyrD spectrum also shows vibrational changes from peptide groups and amino acid side chains which are modified upon TyrD. formation. Proton release at the PS II protein surface upon TyrD. formation is deduced from differential signals at the v(PO) modes of phosphate.
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- R Hienerwadel
- Section de Bioénergétique, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Nabedryk E, Leibl W, Breton J. FTIR spectroscopy of primary donor photooxidation in Photosystem I, Heliobacillus mobilis, and Chlorobium limicola. Comparison with purple bacteria. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1996; 48:301-308. [PMID: 24271311 DOI: 10.1007/bf00041021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/1995] [Accepted: 02/12/1996] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The photooxidation of the primary electron donor in several Photosystem I-related organisms (Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Heliobacillus mobilis, and Chlorobium limicola f. sp. thiosulphatophilum) has been studied by light-induced FTIR difference spectroscopy at 100 K in the 4000 to 1200 cm(-1) spectral range. The data are compared to the well-characterized FTIR difference spectra of the photooxidation of the primary donor P in Rhodobacter sphaeroides (both wild type and the heterodimer mutant HL M202) in order to get information on the charge localization and the extent of coupling within the (bacterio)chlorophylls constituting the oxidized primary donors. In Rb. sphaeroides RC, four marker bands mostly related to the dimeric nature of the oxidized primary donor have been previously observed at ≈2600, 1550, 1480, and 1295 cm(-1). The high-frequency band has been shown to correspond to an electronic transition (Breton et al. (1992) Biochemistry 31: 7503-7510) while the three other marker bands have been described as phase-phonon bands (Reimers and Hush (1995) Chem Phys 197: 323-332). The absence of these bands in PS I as well as in the heterodimer HL M202 demonstrates that in P700(+) the charge is essentially localized on a single chlorophyll molecule. For both H. mobilis and C. limicola, the presence of a high-frequency band at ≈ 2050 and 2450 cm(-1), respectively, and of phase-phonon bands (at ≈ 1535 and 1300 cm(-1) in H. mobilis, at ≈ 1465 and 1280 cm(-1) in C. limicola) indicate that the positive charge in the photooxidized primary donor is shared between two coupled BChls. The structure of P840(+) in C. limicola, in terms of the resonance interactions between the two BChl a molecules constituting the oxidized primary donor, is close to that of P(+) in purple bacteria reaction centers while for H. mobilis the FTIR data are interpreted in terms of a weaker coupling of the two bacteriochlorophylls.
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- E Nabedryk
- Section de Bioénergétique, Departement de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA/Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Nabedryk E, Andrianambinintsoa S, Dejonghe D, Breton J. FTIR spectroscopy of the photoreduction of the bacteriopheophytin electron acceptor in reaction centers of Rb. sphaeroides and Rps. viridis. Chem Phys 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(94)00430-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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A quantitative analysis of protein secondary structure of photosystem II particles and light-harvesting complex of chloroplast thylakoid membranes by FT-IR spectroscopy. J Mol Struct 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-2860(94)08386-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A comparative study of Fe(II) and Fe (III) ions complexation with proteins of the light-harvesting complex of chloroplast thylakoid membranes. J Inorg Biochem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0162-0134(94)80022-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ahmed A, Tajmir-Riahi H. Interaction of Mg(II), Ca(II) and Mn(II) ions with the light-harvesting proteins of chloroplast thylakoid membranes studied by FT-IR difference spectroscopy. J Mol Struct 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-2860(93)07937-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Allakhverdiev SI, Ahmed A, Tajmir-Riahi HA, Klimov VV, Carpentier R. Light-induced Fourier transform infrared spectrum of the cation radical P680+. FEBS Lett 1994; 339:151-4. [PMID: 8313965 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)80404-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The structure of the primary electron donor of photosystem II, P680, is still under debate. It is not decided if it is composed of a chlorophyll (Chl) monomer or dimer. In this study, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to analyze the changes in the vibration modes occurring upon photooxidation of P680 in a Mn-depleted PS II preparation. It is demonstrated that illumination of the above in the presence of artificial electron acceptors results in a light-minus-dark absorbance change typical of the formation of P680+. The light-minus-dark difference FTIR spectrum obtained under similar conditions is characterized by two negative peaks located at 1694 and 1652 or 1626 cm-1 that can be assigned to the 9-keto groups of the P680 Chl, the latter band being indicative of a strongly associated group. These vibrations are shifted to 1714 and 1676 cm-1, respectively, in the positive features of the difference spectrum attributed to P680+. The occurrence of two pairs of bands attributed to 9-keto groups is discussed in terms of P680 being formed of a Chl dimer.
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- S I Allakhverdiev
- Centre de recherche en photobiophysique, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
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Hienerwadel R, Thibodeau D, Lenz F, Nabedryk E, Breton J, Kreutz W, Mäntele W. Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of electron transfer in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers: dynamics of binding and interaction upon QA and QB reduction. Biochemistry 1992; 31:5799-808. [PMID: 1610825 DOI: 10.1021/bi00140a016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Light-induced forward electron transfer in the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides was investigated by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. Using a highly sensitive kinetic photometer based on a tunable IR diode laser source [Mäntele, W., Hienerwadel, R., Lenz, F., Riedel, W. J., Grisar, R., & Tacke, M. (1990a) Spectrosc. Int. 2, 29-35], molecular processes concomitant with electron-transfer reactions were studied in the microsecond-to-second time scale. Infrared (IR) signals in the 1780-1430-cm-1 spectral region, appearing within the instrument time resolution of about 0.5 microseconds, could be assigned to molecular changes of the primary electron donor upon formation of a radical cation and to modes of the primary quinone electron acceptor QA and its environment upon formation of QA-. These IR signals are consistent with steady-state FTIR difference spectra of the P+Q- formation [Mäntele, W., Nabedryk, E., Tavitian, B. A., Kreutz, W., & Breton, J. (1985) FEBS Lett. 187, 227-232; Mäntele, W., Wollenweber, A., Nabedryk, E., & Breton, J. (1988) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85, 8468-8472; Nabedryk, E., Bagley, K. A., Thibodeau, D. L., Bauscher, M., Mäntele, W., & Breton, J. (1990) FEBS Lett. 266, 59-62] and with time-resolved FTIR studies [Thibodeau, D. L., Nabedryk, E., Hienerwadel, R., Lenz, F., Mäntele, W., & Breton, J. (1990) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1020, 253-259]. At given wavenumbers, kinetic components with a half-time of approximately 120 microseconds were observed and attributed to QA----QB electron transfer. The time-resolved IR signals, in contrast to steady-state experiments where full protein relaxation after electron transfer can occur, allow us to follow directly the modes of QA and QB and their protein environment under conditions of forward electron transfer. Apart from signals attributed to the primary electron donor, signals are proposed to arise not only from the C = O and C = C vibrational modes of the neutral quinones and from the C-O and C-C vibrations of their semiquinone anion form but also from amino acid groups forming their binding sites. Some of the signals appearing with the instrument rise time as well as the transient 120-microseconds signals are interpreted in terms of binding and interaction of the primary and secondary quinone electron acceptor in the Rb. sphaeroides reaction center and of the conformational changes in their binding site.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- R Hienerwadel
- Institut für Biophysik und Strahlenbiologie, Universität Freiburg, FRG
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Chapados C, Lemieux S, Carpentier R. Protein and chlorophyll in photosystem II probed by infrared spectroscopy. Biophys Chem 1991; 39:225-39. [PMID: 17014768 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(91)80001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/1989] [Revised: 07/23/1990] [Accepted: 07/26/1990] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The infrared spectra of photosystem II (PS II) enriched submembrane fractions isolated from spinach are obtained in water and in heavy water suspension Other spectra are obtained after a photooxidation reaction was performed on PS II to bleach the pigments. The water bands are removed by computer subtraction and the amide bands (A, B, I, II, and III) of the protein are identified. Computer enhancement techniques are used to narrow the bandwidth of the bands that the weak chlorophyll bands, buried in the much stronger protein bands, can be observed. Comparing the spectra of native and photooxidized PS II pr in water and in heavy water, we determine that three polypeptide domains are present in the native material. The first domain, which contains 22% of th is situated in the peripheral region of the PS II system. The polypeptides in this region are unfolded and devoid of chlorophyll. The second domain con of the polypeptides, is more organized, and contains the chlorophylls. The third domain has an alpha-helix configuration, does not contain chlorophyll, a affected by the photooxidation reaction or by the proton/deuteron exchange. Three different types of chlorophyll organisation are identified: two have carbonyl groups non-bonded, differing from one another only in their hydrophobic milieux; the third is weakly bonded to another unidentified group. Other forms of chlorophyll organisation are present but could not be observed because their absorption is buried in the protein amide I band.
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- C Chapados
- Département de chimie-biologie Trois-Rivières, Québec G9A 5H7, Canada
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Nabedryk E, Leonhard M, Mäntele W, Breton J. Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy shows no evidence for an enolization of chlorophyll a upon cation formation either in vitro or during P700 photooxidation. Biochemistry 1990; 29:3242-7. [PMID: 2110474 DOI: 10.1021/bi00465a015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Molecular changes associated with the photooxidation of the primary electron donor P700 in photosystem I from cyanobacteria have been investigated with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy. Highly resolved signals are observed in the carbonyl stretching frequency region of the light-induced FTIR spectra. In order to assign and to interpret these signals, the FTIR spectra of isolated chlorophyll a and pyrochlorophyll a (lacking the 10a-ester carbonyl) in both their neutral and cation states were investigated. Comparison of the redox-induced FTIR difference spectra of these two model compounds demonstrates that upon chlorophyll a cation formation in tetrahydrofuran the 7c-ester carbonyl is essentially unperturbed while the 10a-ester carbonyl is upshifted from 1738 to 1751 cm-1. For the 9-keto group, the shift is from 1693 to 1718 cm-1 in chlorophyll a and from 1686 to 1712 cm-1 in pyrochlorophyll a. The 1718-cm-1 band in the difference spectrum of chlorophyll a is thus unambiguously assigned to the 9-keto carbonyl of the cation. Comparison of the light-induced FTIR difference spectrum associated with the photooxidation of P700 in vivo with the difference FTIR spectrum of chlorophyll a cation formation leads to the assignment of the frequencies of the 9-keto carbonyl group(s) at 1700 cm-1 in P700 and at 1717 cm-1 in P700+.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- E Nabedryk
- Département de Biologie, CEN Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Nabedryk E, Andrianambinintsoa S, Berger G, Leonhard M, Mäntele W, Breton J. Characterization of bonding interactions of the intermediary electron acceptor in the reaction center of Photosystem II by FTIR spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(90)90005-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Moss D, Nabedryk E, Breton J, Mäntele W. Redox-linked conformational changes in proteins detected by a combination of infrared spectroscopy and protein electrochemistry. Evaluation of the technique with cytochrome c. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 187:565-72. [PMID: 2154376 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15338.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have developed a new technique for the study of redox-linked conformational changes in proteins, by the combination of two established techniques. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy has been used together with direct electrochemistry of the protein at a modified metal electrode surface. The technique has been evaluated with cytochrome c, because of its well-characterized electrochemistry and because the availability of X-ray crystallographic and NMR studies of both redox states of the protein provides a reference against which our data can be compared. In electrochemical control experiments, it was confirmed that the spectroelectrochemical cell design allows fast, accurate and reproducible control of the redox poise of the protein. The resulting reduced-minus-oxidized infrared difference spectra show the changes in the frequencies and intensities of molecular vibrations which arise from the redox-linked conformational change. In contrast to the absolute infrared spectra of proteins, such difference spectra can be sufficiently straightforward to allow interpretation at the level of individual bonds. A complete interpretation of the spectra is beyond the scope of the present paper: however, on the basis of the data presented, we are able to suggest assignments for all except one of the major bands between 1500 cm-1 and 1800 cm-1.
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- D Moss
- Institut für Biophysik und Strahlenbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Surewicz WK, Mantsch HH. The conformation of proteins and peptides in a membrane environment: an infrared spectroscopic approach. BIOTECHNOLOGY (READING, MASS.) 1990; 14:131-57. [PMID: 2183896 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-409-90116-0.50015-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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MÁNTELE W, WOLLENWEBER A, Rashwan F, Heinze J, Nabedryk E, Berger G, Breton J. FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY OF THE BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL a ANION RADICAL. Photochem Photobiol 1988. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1988.tb02750.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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