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Samaei A, Deshmukh SS, Protheroe C, Nyéki S, Tremblay-Ethier RA, Kálmán L. Photoactivation and conformational gating for manganese binding and oxidation in bacterial reaction centers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. BIOENERGETICS 2023; 1864:148928. [PMID: 36216075 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2022.148928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The influence of illumination history of native bacterial reaction centers (BRCs) on the ability of binding and photo-induced oxidation of manganous ions was investigated in the pH range between 8.0 and 9.4. Binding of manganous ions to a buried site required 6 to 11-fold longer incubation periods, depending on the pH, in dark-adapted BRCs than in BRCs that were previously illuminated prior to manganese binding. The intrinsic electron transfer from the bound manganese ion to the photo-oxidized primary electron donor was found to be limited by a 2 to 5-fold slower precursor conformational step in the dark-adapted samples for the same pH range. The conformational gating could be eliminated by photoactivation, namely if the BRCs were illuminated prior to binding. Unlike in Photosystem II, photoactivation in BRCs did not involve cluster assembly. Photoactivation with manganese already bound was only possible at elevated detergent concentration. In addition, also exclusively in dark-adapted BRCs, a marked breaking point in the Arrhenius-plot was discovered around 15 °C at pH 9.4 indicating a change in the reaction mechanism, most likely caused by the change of orientation of the 2-acetyl group of the inactive bacteriochlorophyll monomer located near the manganese binding site.
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- Ali Samaei
- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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de Carvalho JGM, Geißer K, Weishäupl SJ, Fischer RA, Pöthig A. Alkaline Earth Metal-Organic Frameworks Based on Tetratopic Anthraquinone-Based Linkers: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photochemical Applications. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:15831-15840. [PMID: 36166497 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A tetratopic bis(diphenylamino)anthraquinone linker is presented, and its physicochemical properties are evaluated. The linker is shown to successfully coordinate alkaline earth metals leading to four new reported metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which have been fully characterized, including single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The physicochemical and emissive properties of the MOF materials are investigated and compared to those of the uncoordinated ligand. Finally, the catalytic behavior of the ligand and the MOF materials toward the photooxidation of sulfides is described.
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- João Guilherme M de Carvalho
- Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry, Catalysis Research Center and Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching B. München, Germany
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- Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry, Catalysis Research Center and Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching B. München, Germany
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- Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry, Catalysis Research Center and Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching B. München, Germany
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- Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry, Catalysis Research Center and Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching B. München, Germany
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- Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry, Catalysis Research Center and Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching B. München, Germany
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Gorka M, Cherepanov DA, Semenov AY, Golbeck JH. Control of electron transfer by protein dynamics in photosynthetic reaction centers. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2020; 55:425-468. [PMID: 32883115 DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2020.1810623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Trehalose and glycerol are low molecular mass sugars/polyols that have found widespread use in the protection of native protein states, in both short- and long-term storage of biological materials, and as a means of understanding protein dynamics. These myriad uses are often attributed to their ability to form an amorphous glassy matrix. In glycerol, the glass is formed only at cryogenic temperatures, while in trehalose, the glass is formed at room temperature, but only upon dehydration of the sample. While much work has been carried out to elucidate a mechanistic view of how each of these matrices interact with proteins to provide stability, rarely have the effects of these two independent systems been directly compared to each other. This review aims to compile decades of research on how different glassy matrices affect two types of photosynthetic proteins: (i) the Type II bacterial reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and (ii) the Type I Photosystem I reaction center from cyanobacteria. By comparing aggregate data on electron transfer, protein structure, and protein dynamics, it appears that the effects of these two distinct matrices are remarkably similar. Both seem to cause a "tightening" of the solvation shell when in a glassy state, resulting in severely restricted conformational mobility of the protein and associated water molecules. Thus, trehalose appears to be able to mimic, at room temperature, nearly all of the effects on protein dynamics observed in low temperature glycerol glasses.
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- Michael Gorka
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physical-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physical-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.,Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Ptushenko VV, Krishtalik LI. Reorganization energies of the electron transfer reactions involving quinones in the reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2018; 138:167-175. [PMID: 30022339 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-018-0560-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In framework of the continuum electrostatics theory, the reorganization energies of the electron transfers QA--QB (fast phase), Bph--QA, P+-QA-, and P+-QB- in the photosynthetic bacterial reaction center have been calculated. The calculations were based on the static dielectric permittivity spatial distribution derived from the data on the electrogenesis, with the corresponding characteristic times relatively close to the reaction times of QA--QB (fast phase) and Bph--QA but much shorter than those times of the latter two recombination reactions. The calculated reorganization energies were reasonably close to the experimental estimates for QA--QB (fast phase) and Bph--QA but substantially lower than those of P+-QA- and P+-QB-. A higher effective dielectric permittivity contributes to this effect, but the dominant contribution is most probably made by a non-dielectric relaxation, especially for the P+-QB- recombination influenced by the proton transfer. This situation calls for reconsidering of the current electron transfer rate estimates.
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- Vasily V Ptushenko
- A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physical-Chemical Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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Nagy L, Kiss V, Brumfeld V, Osvay K, Börzsönyi Á, Magyar M, Szabó T, Dorogi M, Malkin S. Thermal Effects and Structural Changes of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Characterized by Wide Frequency Band Hydrophone: Effects of Carotenoids and Terbutryn. Photochem Photobiol 2015; 91:1368-75. [PMID: 26277346 DOI: 10.1111/php.12511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2015] [Accepted: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- László Nagy
- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics; University of Szeged; Szeged Hungary
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- Department of Biological Chemistry; Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot Israel
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- Department of Chemical Research Support; Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot Israel
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- Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics; University of Szeged; Szeged Hungary
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- Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics; University of Szeged; Szeged Hungary
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- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics; University of Szeged; Szeged Hungary
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- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics; University of Szeged; Szeged Hungary
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- Biophotonics R&D Ltd; Szeged Hungary
- Institute of Plant Biology; Biological Research Center; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Szeged Hungary
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- Department of Biological Chemistry; Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot Israel
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Zhang X, Gunner MR. Affinity and activity of non-native quinones at the Q(B) site of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2014; 120:181-96. [PMID: 23715773 PMCID: PMC4442677 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9850-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2012] [Accepted: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Purple, photosynthetic reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides bacteria use ubiquinone (UQ10) as both primary (Q(A)) and secondary (Q(B)) electron acceptors. Many quinones reconstitute Q(A) function, while a few will act as Q(B). Nine quinones were tested for their ability to bind and reconstitute Q(A) and Q(B) functions. Only ubiquinone (UQ) reconstitutes both functions in the same protein. The affinities of the non-native quinones for the Q(B) site were determined by a competitive inhibition assay. The affinities of benzoquinones, naphthoquinone (NQ), and 2-methyl-NQ for the Q(B) site are 7 ± 3 times weaker than that at Q(A) site. However, di-ortho-substituted NQs and anthraquinone bind tightly to the Q(A) site (K d ≤ 200 nM), and ≥1,000 times more weakly to the Q(B) site, perhaps setting a limit on the size of the site. With a low-potential electron donor, 2-methyl, 3-dimethylamino-1,4-NQ, (Me-diMeAm-NQ) at Q(A), Q(B) reduction is 260 meV, more favorable than with UQ as Q(A). Electron transfer from Me-diMeAm-NQ at the Q(A) site to NQ at the Q(B) site can be detected. In the Q(B) site, the NQ semiquinone is estimated to be ≈60-100 meV higher in energy than the UQ semiquinone, while in the Q(A) site, the semiquinone energy level is similar or lower with NQ than with UQ. Thus, the NQ semiquinone is more stable in the Q(A) than in the Q(B) site. In contrast, the native UQ semiquinone is ≈60 meV lower in energy in the Q(B) than in the Q(A) site, stabilizing forward electron transfer from Q(A) to Q(B).
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Telephone: 212-650-5557. Fax: 212-650-6940
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Müh F, Zouni A. The nonheme iron in photosystem II. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2013; 116:295-314. [PMID: 24077892 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9926-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Photosystem II (PSII), the light-driven water:plastoquinone (PQ) oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis, contains a nonheme iron (NHI) at its electron acceptor side. The NHI is situated between the two PQs QA and QB that serve as one-electron transmitter and substrate of the reductase part of PSII, respectively. Among the ligands of the NHI is a (bi)carbonate originating from CO2, the substrate of the dark reactions of oxygenic photosynthesis. Based on recent advances in the crystallography of PSII, we review the structure of the NHI in PSII and discuss ideas concerning its function and the role of bicarbonate along with a comparison to the reaction center of purple bacteria and other enzymes containing a mononuclear NHI site.
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Szabó T, Bencsik G, Magyar M, Visy C, Gingl Z, Nagy K, Váró G, Hajdu K, Kozák G, Nagy L. Photosynthetic reaction centers/ITO hybrid nanostructure. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 2012; 33:769-73. [PMID: 25427486 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2012.10.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2012] [Revised: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 10/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Photosynthetic reaction center proteins purified from Rhodobacter sphaeroides purple bacterium were deposited on the surface of indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive oxide, and the photochemical/-physical properties of the composite were investigated. The kinetics of the light induced absorption change indicated that the RC was active in the composite and there was an interaction between the protein cofactors and the ITO. The electrochromic response of the bacteriopheophytine absorption at 771 nm showed an increased electric field perturbation around this chromophore on the surface of ITO compared to the one measured in solution. This absorption change is associated with the charge-compensating relaxation events inside the protein. Similar life time, but smaller magnitude of this absorption change was measured on the surface of borosilicate glass. The light induced change in the conductivity of the composite as a function of the concentration showed the typical sigmoid saturation characteristics unlike if the photochemically inactive chlorophyll was layered on the ITO. In this later case the light induced change in the conductivity was oppositely proportional to the chlorophyll concentration due to the thermal dissipation of the excitation energy. The sensitivity of the measurement is very high; few picomole RC can change the light induced resistance of the composite.
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- Tibor Szabó
- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Technical Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biophysics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biophysics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
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Deshmukh SS, Tang K, Kálmán L. Lipid binding to the carotenoid binding site in photosynthetic reaction centers. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:16309-16. [PMID: 21894992 DOI: 10.1021/ja207750z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lipid binding to the carotenoid binding site near the inactive bacteriochlorophyll monomer was probed in the reaction centers of carotenoid-less mutant, R-26 from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Recently, a marked light-induced change of the local dielectric constant in the vicinity of the inactive bacteriochlorophyll monomer was reported in wild type that was attributed to structural changes that ultimately lengthened the lifetime of the charge-separated state by 3 orders of magnitude (Deshmukh, S. S.; Williams, J. C.; Allen, J. P.; Kalman, L. Biochemistry 2011, 50, 340). Here in the R-26 reaction centers, the combination of light-induced structural changes and lipid binding resulted in a 5 orders of magnitude increase in the lifetime of the charge-separated state involving the oxidized dimer and the reduced primary quinone in proteoliposomes. Only saturated phospholipids with fatty acid chains of 12 and 14 carbon atoms long were bound successfully at 8 °C by cooling the reaction center protein slowly from room temperature. In addition to reporting a dramatic increase of the lifetime of the charge-separated state at physiologically relevant temperatures, this study reveals a novel lipid binding site in photosynthetic reaction center. These results shed light on a new potential application of the reaction center in energy storage as a light-driven biocapacitor since the charges separated by ∼30 Å in a low-dielectric medium can be prevented from recombination for hours.
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- Sasmit S Deshmukh
- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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Deshmukh SS, Akhavein H, Williams JC, Allen JP, Kálmán L. Light-Induced Conformational Changes in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Impact of Detergents and Lipids on the Electronic Structure of the Primary Electron Donor. Biochemistry 2011; 50:5249-62. [DOI: 10.1021/bi200595z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- S. S. Deshmukh
- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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Deshmukh SS, Williams JC, Allen JP, Kálmán L. Light-Induced Conformational Changes in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Dielectric Relaxation in the Vicinity of the Dimer. Biochemistry 2010; 50:340-8. [DOI: 10.1021/bi101496c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Sasmit S. Deshmukh
- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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Histidine is involved in coupling proton uptake to electron transfer in photosynthetic proteins. Eur J Cell Biol 2010; 89:983-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2010.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Li L, Fu Q, Kors CA, Stewart L, Nollert P, Laible PD, Ismagilov RF. A Plug-Based Microfluidic System for Dispensing Lipidic Cubic Phase (LCP) Material Validated by Crystallizing Membrane Proteins in Lipidic Mesophases. MICROFLUIDICS AND NANOFLUIDICS 2010; 8:789-798. [PMID: 20473353 PMCID: PMC2868346 DOI: 10.1007/s10404-009-0512-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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This paper presents a plug-based microfluidic system to dispense nanoliter-volume plugs of Lipidic Cubic Phase (LCP) material and subsequently merge the LCP plugs with aqueous plugs. This system was validated by crystallizing membrane proteins in lipidic mesophases, including LCP. This system allows for accurate dispensing of LCP material in nanoliter volumes, prevents inadvertent phase transitions that may occur due to dehydration by enclosing LCP in plugs, and is compatible with the traditional method of forming LCP material using a membrane protein sample, as shown by the successful crystallization of bacteriorhodopsin from Halobacterium salinarum. Conditions for the formation of LCP plugs were characterized and presented in a phase diagram. This system was also implemented using two different methods of introducing the membrane protein: 1) the traditional method of generating the LCP material using a membrane protein sample and 2) Post LCP-formation Incorporation (PLI), which involves making LCP material without protein, adding the membrane protein sample externally to the LCP material, and allowing the protein to diffuse into the LCP material or into other lipidic mesophases that may result from phase transitions. Crystals of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Blastochloris viridis were obtained using PLI. The plug-based, LCP-assisted microfluidic system, combined with the PLI method for introducing membrane protein into LCP, should be useful for minimizing consumption of samples and broadening the screening of parameter space in membrane protein crystallization.
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- Liang Li
- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics The University of Chicago, 929 East 57Street, Chicago, IL, 60637
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics The University of Chicago, 929 East 57Street, Chicago, IL, 60637
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- Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439
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- Emerald BioSystems, Inc., 7869 NE Day Rd. W, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
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- Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics The University of Chicago, 929 East 57Street, Chicago, IL, 60637
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Wöhri AB, Wahlgren WY, Malmerberg E, Johansson LC, Neutze R, Katona G. Lipidic sponge phase crystal structure of a photosynthetic reaction center reveals lipids on the protein surface. Biochemistry 2009; 48:9831-8. [PMID: 19743880 DOI: 10.1021/bi900545e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Membrane proteins are embedded in a lipid bilayer and maintain strong interactions with lipid molecules. Tightly bound lipids are responsible for vertical positioning and integration of proteins in the membrane and for assembly of multisubunit complexes and occasionally act as substrates. In this work we present the lipidic sponge phase crystal structure of the reaction center from Blastochloris viridis to 1.86 A, which reveals lipid molecules interacting with the protein surface. A diacylglycerol molecule is bound, through a thioether bond, to the N-terminus of the tetraheme cytochrome c subunit. From the electron density recovered at the Q(B) site and the observed change in recombination kinetics in lipidic sponge phase-grown crystals, the mobile ubiquinone appears to be displaced by a monoolein molecule. A 36 A long electron density feature is observed at the interface of transmembrane helices belonging to the H- and M-subunits, probably arising from an unidentified lipid.
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- Annemarie B Wöhri
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Molecular Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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The local electric field within phospholipid membranes modulates the charge transfer reactions in reaction centres. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2009; 1787:1039-49. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2009.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2009] [Revised: 03/03/2009] [Accepted: 03/05/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Wraight CA, Gunner MR. The Acceptor Quinones of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria — Structure and Spectroscopy. THE PURPLE PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8815-5_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Huang L, Wiederrecht GP, Utschig LM, Schlesselman SL, Xydis C, Laible PD, Hanson DK, Tiede DM. Correlating Ultrafast Function with Structure in Single Crystals of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center. Biochemistry 2008; 47:11387-9. [DOI: 10.1021/bi801026g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Libai Huang
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, and Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831
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Nagy L, Maróti P, Terazima M. Spectrally silent light induced conformation change in photosynthetic reaction centers. FEBS Lett 2008; 582:3657-62. [PMID: 18840436 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.09.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2008] [Accepted: 09/23/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Spectrally silent conformation change after photoexcitation of photosynthetic reaction centers isolated from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 was observed by the optical heterodyne transient grating technique. The signal showed spectrally silent structural change in photosynthetic reaction centers followed by the primary P+BPh- charge separation and this change remains even after the charge recombination. Without bound quinone to the RC, the conformation change relaxes with about 28micros lifetime. The presence of quinone at the primary quinone (QA) site may suppress this conformation change. However, a weak relaxation with 30-40micros lifetime is still observed under the presence of QA, which increases up to 40micros as a function of the occupancy of the secondary quinone (QB) site.
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- László Nagy
- Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Szeged, 6720 Szeged, Rerrich B. tér. 1., Hungary.
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Nabedryk E, Breton J. Coupling of electron transfer to proton uptake at the QB site of the bacterial reaction center: A perspective from FTIR difference spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2008; 1777:1229-48. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2008] [Revised: 06/26/2008] [Accepted: 06/27/2008] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Knox PP, Krasilnikov PM, Mamonov PA, Seifullina NK, Uchoa AF, Baptista MS. Stabilization of the electron in the quinone acceptor part of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centers. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2008. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006350908040106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Ginet N, Lavergne J. Conformational control of the Q(A) to Q(B) electron transfer in bacterial reaction centers: evidence for a frozen conformational landscape below -25 degrees C. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:9318-31. [PMID: 18588291 DOI: 10.1021/ja076504f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The competition between the P(+)Q(A)(-) --> PQ(A) charge recombination (P, bacteriochlorophyll pair acting as primary photochemical electron donor) and the electron transfer to the secondary quinone acceptor Q(A)(-)Q(B) --> Q(A)Q(B)(-) (Q(A) and Q(B), primary and secondary electron accepting quinones) was investigated in chromatophores of Rb. capsulatus, varying the temperature down to -65 degrees C. The analysis of the flash-induced pattern for the formation of P(+)Q(A)Q(B)(-) shows that the diminished yield, when lowering the temperature, is not due to a homogeneous slowing of the rate constant k(AB) of the Q(A)(-)Q(B) --> Q(A)Q(B)(-) electron transfer but to a distribution of conformations that modulate the electron transfer rate over more than 3 orders of magnitude. This distribution appears "frozen", as no dynamic redistribution was observed over time ranges > 10 s (below -25 degrees C). The kinetic pattern was analyzed to estimate the shape of the distribution of k(AB), showing a bell-shaped band on the high rate side and a fraction of "blocked" reaction centers (RCs) with very slow k(AB). When the temperature is lowered, the high rate band moves to slower rate regions and the fraction of blocked RCs increases at the expense of the high rate band. The RCs that recombine from the P(+)Q(A)Q(B)(-) state appear temporarily converted to a state with rapid k(AB), indicating that the stabilized state described by Kleinfeld et al. (Biochemistry 1984, 23, 5780-5786) is still accessible at -60 degrees C.
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- Nicolas Ginet
- Laboratoire de Bioénergétique Cellulaire, iBEB, UMR 6191, CEA/CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille II, CEA Cadarache, 13108, Saint Paul lez Durance, France.
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Palazzo G, Francia F, Mallardi A, Giustini M, Lopez F, Venturoli G. Water Activity Regulates the QA− to QB Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:9353-63. [DOI: 10.1021/ja801963a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Gerardo Palazzo
- Dipartimento di Chimica and CSGI, Università di Bari, via Orabona 4, I-70126, Bari, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia and CNISM, Università di Bologna, Italy, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, and CSGI and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and CSGI, Università di Bari, via Orabona 4, I-70126, Bari, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia and CNISM, Università di Bologna, Italy, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, and CSGI and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and CSGI, Università di Bari, via Orabona 4, I-70126, Bari, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia and CNISM, Università di Bologna, Italy, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, and CSGI and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and CSGI, Università di Bari, via Orabona 4, I-70126, Bari, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia and CNISM, Università di Bologna, Italy, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, and CSGI and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and CSGI, Università di Bari, via Orabona 4, I-70126, Bari, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia and CNISM, Università di Bologna, Italy, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, and CSGI and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and CSGI, Università di Bari, via Orabona 4, I-70126, Bari, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia and CNISM, Università di Bologna, Italy, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, and CSGI and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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Charge stabilization in reaction center protein investigated by optical heterodyne detected transient grating spectroscopy. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2008; 37:1167-74. [DOI: 10.1007/s00249-008-0294-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2007] [Revised: 02/14/2008] [Accepted: 02/26/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Tandori J, Miksovska J, Valerio-Lepiniec M, Schiffer M, Maróti P, Hanson DK, Sebban P. Proton Uptake of Rhodobacter capsulatus Reaction Center Mutants Modified in the Primary Quinone Environment ¶dagger;. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)0750126puorcr2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Dorogi M, Balint Z, Mikó C, Vileno B, Milas M, Hernadi K, Forró L, Varó G, Nagy L. Stabilization effect of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the functioning of photosynthetic reaction centers. J Phys Chem B 2007; 110:21473-9. [PMID: 17064097 DOI: 10.1021/jp060828t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The interaction between single-walled carbon nanotubes and photosynthetic reaction centers purified from purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 has been investigated. Atomic force microscopy studies provide evidence that reaction center protein can be attached effectively to the nanotubes. The typical diameter of the nanotube is 1-4 nm and 15 +/- 2 nm without and with the reaction centers, respectively. Light-induced absorption change measurements indicate the stabilization of the P+(Q(A)Q(B))- charge pair, which is formed after single saturating light excitation after the attachment to nanotubes. The separation of light-induced charges is followed by slow reorganization of the protein structure. The stabilization effect of light-initiated charges by the carbon nanotubes opens a possible direction of several applications, the most promising being in energy conversion and storage devices.
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- Marta Dorogi
- Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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Cao Y, Chen D, Wu X, Kong J, Zou Y, Xu C. PROBING ELECTRON TRANSFER OF THE REDOX SPECIES IN WILD-TYPE RC PROTEIN AND ITS PIGMENT-REPLACED MUTANTS RE-CONSTITUTED IN SELF-ASSEMBLY MONOLAYERS. ANAL LETT 2007. [DOI: 10.1081/al-100103214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Yibin Cao
- a Department of Chemistry , Fudan University , Shanghai , 200433 , China
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- a Department of Chemistry , Fudan University , Shanghai , 200433 , China
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- a Department of Chemistry , Fudan University , Shanghai , 200433 , China
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- b Department of Chemistry , Fudan University , Shanghai , 200433 , China
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- c Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 200032 , China
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- c Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 200032 , China
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Milano F, Dorogi M, Szebényi K, Nagy L, Maróti P, Váró G, Giotta L, Agostiano A, Trotta M. Enthalpy/entropy driven activation of the first interquinone electron transfer in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers embedded in vesicles of physiologically important phospholipids. Bioelectrochemistry 2007; 70:18-22. [PMID: 16713374 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2006.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2005] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The thermodynamics and kinetics of light-induced electron transfer in bacterial photosynthetic RCs are sensitive to physiologically important lipids (phosphatidylcholine, cardiolipin and phosphatidylglycerol) in the environment. The analysis of the temperature-dependence of the rate of the P(+)Q(A)(-)Q(B)-->P(+)Q(A)Q(B)(-) interquinone electron transfer revealed high enthalpy change of activation in zwitterionic or neutral micelles and vesicles and low enthalpy change of activation in vesicles constituted of negatively charged phospholipids. The entropy change of activation was compensated by the changes of enthalpy, thus the free energy change of activation ( approximately 500 meV) did not show large variation in vesicles of different lipids.
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- Francesco Milano
- CNR, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Via Orabona, 4 I-70124 Bari, Italy
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Paddock ML, Flores M, Isaacson R, Chang C, Abresch EC, Selvaduray P, Okamura MY. Trapped conformational states of semiquinone (D+*QB-*) formed by B-branch electron transfer at low temperature in Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centers. Biochemistry 2006; 45:14032-42. [PMID: 17115698 PMCID: PMC2259235 DOI: 10.1021/bi060854h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The reaction center (RC) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides captures light energy by electron transfer between quinones QA and QB, involving a conformational gating step. In this work, conformational states of D+*QB-* were trapped (80 K) and studied using EPR spectroscopy in native and mutant RCs that lack QA in which QB was reduced by the bacteriopheophytin along the B-branch. In mutant RCs frozen in the dark, a light induced EPR signal due to D+*QB-* formed in 30% of the sample with low quantum yield (0.2%-20%) and decayed in 6 s. A small signal with similar characteristics was also observed in native RCs. In contrast, the EPR signal due to D+*QB-* in mutant RCs illuminated while freezing formed in approximately 95% of the sample did not decay (tau >107 s) at 80 K (also observed in the native RC). In all samples, the observed g-values were the same (g = 2.0026), indicating that all active QB-*'s were located in a proximal conformation coupled with the nonheme Fe2+. We propose that before electron transfer at 80 K, the majority (approximately 70%) of QB, structurally located in the distal site, was not stably reducible, whereas the minority (approximately 30%) of active configurations was in the proximal site. The large difference in the lifetimes of the unrelaxed and relaxed D+*QB-* states is attributed to the relaxation of protein residues and internal water molecules that stabilize D+*QB-*. These results demonstrate energetically significant conformational changes involved in stabilizing the D+*QB-* state. The unrelaxed and relaxed states can be considered to be the initial and final states along the reaction coordinate for conformationally gated electron transfer.
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- M L Paddock
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
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Mamedov MD, Tyunyatkina AA, Siletsky SA, Semenov AY. Voltage changes involving photosystem II quinone–iron complex turnover. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2006; 35:647-54. [PMID: 16708211 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-006-0069-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2006] [Revised: 04/10/2006] [Accepted: 04/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An electrometrical technique was used to investigate proton-coupled electron transfer between the primary plastoquinone acceptor Q (A) (-) and the oxidized non-heme iron Fe(3+) on the acceptor side of photosystem II core particles incorporated into phospholipid vesicles. The sign of the transmembrane electric potential difference Deltapsi (negative charging of the proteoliposome interior) indicates that the iron-quinone complex faces the interior surface of the proteoliposome membrane. Preoxidation of the non-heme iron was achieved by addition of potassium ferricyanide entrapped into proteoliposomes. Besides the fast unresolvable kinetic phase (tau approximately 0.1 micro s) of Deltapsi generation related to electron transfer between the redox-active tyrosine Y(Z) and Q(A), an additional phase in the submillisecond time domain (tau approximately 0.1 ms at 23 degrees C, pH 7.0) and relative amplitude approximately 20% of the amplitude of the fast phase was observed under exposure to the first flash. This phase was absent under the second laser flash, as well as upon the first flash in the presence of DCMU, an inhibitor of electron transfer between Q(A) and the secondary quinone Q(B). The rate of the additional electrogenic phase is decreased by about one-half in the presence of D(2)O and is reduced with the temperature decrease. On the basis of the above observations we suggest that the submillisecond electrogenic reaction induced by the first flash is due to the vectorial transfer of a proton from external aqueous phase to an amino acid residue(s) in the vicinity of the non-heme iron. The possible role of the non-heme iron in cyclic electron transfer in photosystem II complex is discussed.
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- M D Mamedov
- A N Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119992, Moscow, Leninskie Gory, Russia.
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Knox PP, Baptista MS, Uchoa AF, Zakharova NI. Effects of Oxygen, Heavy Water, and Glycerol on Electron Transfer in the Acceptor Part of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Reaction Centers. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2005; 70:1268-73. [PMID: 16336188 DOI: 10.1007/s10541-005-0258-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The kinetics of electron transfer between primary and secondary quinone acceptors of the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) of the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides wild type was studied at the wavelengths 400 and 450 nm. It was shown that removing of molecular oxygen from RC preparations slowed down the fast phase of the process from 4-4.5 microsec to tens of microseconds. Similar effects were observed after the incubation of RC in heavy water for 72 h or glycerol addition (90% v/v) to RC preparations. The observed effects are interpreted in terms of the influence of these agents on the hydrogen bond system of the RC. The state of this system can determine the formation of different RC conformations that are characterized by different rates of electron transfer between quinone acceptors.
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- P P Knox
- Biology Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia.
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Mulkidjanian AY, Kozlova MA, Cherepanov DA. Ubiquinone reduction in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: interplay between electron transfer, proton binding and flips of the quinone ring. Biochem Soc Trans 2005; 33:845-50. [PMID: 16042612 DOI: 10.1042/bst0330845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This review is focused on reactions that gate (control) the electron transfer between the primary quinone QA and secondary quinone QB in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The results on electron and proton transfer are discussed in relation to structural information and to the steered molecular dynamics simulations of the QB ring flip in its binding pocket. Depending on the initial position of QB in the pocket and on certain conditions, the rate of electron transfer is suggested to be limited either by the quinone ring flip or by the charge-compensating proton equilibration between the surface and the buried QB site.
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- A Y Mulkidjanian
- A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia.
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Cordone L, Cottone G, Giuffrida S, Palazzo G, Venturoli G, Viappiani C. Internal dynamics and protein–matrix coupling in trehalose-coated proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2005; 1749:252-81. [PMID: 15886079 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2005.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2004] [Revised: 03/04/2005] [Accepted: 03/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We review recent studies on the role played by non-liquid, water-containing matrices on the dynamics and structure of embedded proteins. Two proteins were studied, in water-trehalose matrices: a water-soluble protein (carboxy derivative of horse heart myoglobin) and a membrane protein (reaction centre from Rhodobacter sphaeroides). Several experimental techniques were used: Mossbauer spectroscopy, elastic neutron scattering, FTIR spectroscopy, CO recombination after flash photolysis in carboxy-myoglobin, kinetic optical absorption spectroscopy following pulsed and continuous photoexcitation in Q(B) containing or Q(B) deprived reaction centre from R. sphaeroides. Experimental results, together with the outcome of molecular dynamics simulations, concurred to give a picture of how water-containing matrices control the internal dynamics of the embedded proteins. This occurs, in particular, via the formation of hydrogen bond networks that anchor the protein surface to the surrounding matrix, whose stiffness increases by lowering the sample water content. In the conclusion section, we also briefly speculate on how the protein-matrix interactions observed in our samples may shed light on the protein-solvent coupling also in liquid aqueous solutions.
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- Lorenzo Cordone
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università di Palermo, Italy.
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Poluektov OG, Utschig LM, Dubinskij AA, Thurnauer MC. Electron transfer pathways and protein response to charge separation in photosynthetic reaction centers: time-resolved high-field ENDOR of the spin-correlated radical pair P865(+)QA(-). J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:4049-59. [PMID: 15771542 DOI: 10.1021/ja043063g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recently we reported the first observation of time-resolved (TR) high-frequency (HF) electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) of the transient charge separated state P865(+)Q(-)A in purple photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers (RC) (Poluektov, O. G., et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 1644-1645). The high resolution and orientational selectivity of HF ENDOR allows us to directly probe protein environments by spectrally selecting specific nuclei in isotopically labeled samples. A new phenomenon associated with the spin correlated radical pair (SCRP) nature of P865(+)Q(-)A was observed. The TR-HF ENDOR spectra of protein nuclei (protons) surrounding deuterated QA(-) exhibit a derivative-like, complicated line shape, which differs considerably from the HF ENDOR spectrum of the protein nuclei surrounding thermally equilibrated QA(-). Here, a theoretical analysis of these observations is presented that shows that the positions and amplitudes of ENDOR lines contain information on hyperfine interactions (HFI) of a particular nucleus (a proton of the protein) with both correlated electron spins. Thus, spin density delocalization in the protein environment between the SCRP donor and acceptor molecules can be revealed via HF ENDOR. Novel approaches for acquiring and analyzing SCRP ENDOR that simplify interpretation of the spectra are discussed. Furthermore, we report here that the positions of the ENDOR lines of the SCRP shift with an increase in the time after laser flash, which initiates electron transfer. These shifts provide direct spectroscopic evidence of reorganization of the protein environment to accommodate the donor-acceptor charge-separated state P865(+)QA(-).
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- Oleg G Poluektov
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
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Comayras F, Jungas C, Lavergne J. Functional Consequences of the Organization of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:11214-23. [PMID: 15632163 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m412089200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In the bacterium R. sphaeroides, the polypeptide PufX is indispensable for photosynthetic growth. Its deletion is known to have important consequences on the organization of the photosynthetic apparatus. In the wild-type strain, complexes between the reaction center (RC) and the antenna (light-harvesting complex 1 (LH1)) are associated in dimers, and LH1 does not fully encircle the RC. In the absence of PufX, the complexes become monomeric, and the LH1 ring closes around the RC. We analyzed the functional consequences of PufX deletion. Some effects can be ascribed to the monomerization of the RC.LH1 complexes: the number of RCs that share a common antenna for excitation transfer or a common quinone pool become smaller. We examined the kinetic effects of the closed LH1 ring on quinone turnover: diffusion across LH1 entails a delay of approximately 1 ms, and the barrier appears to be located directly against the quinone-binding (secondary quinone acceptor (Q(B))) pocket. The diffusion of ubiquinol from the RC to the cytochrome bc1 complex is approximately 2-fold slower in the mutant, suggesting an increased distance between the two complexes. The properties of the Q(B) pocket (binding of inhibitors, stabilization of Q(B-), and rate of Q(B)-H2 formation) appear to be modified in the mutant. Another specificity of PufX- is the accumulation of closed centers in the Q(A-) (where Q(A) is the primary quinone acceptor) state as the secondary acceptor pool becomes reduced, which is probably the origin of photosynthetic incompetence. We suggest that this is related to the Q(B) pocket alterations. The malfunction of the reaction center is probably due to a faulty association with LH1 that is prevented in the PufX-containing structure.
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- Frédéric Comayras
- Unité Mixte de Recherche 6191 CNRS-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Aix Marseille II, Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et de Microbiologie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache, 13108 Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France
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Pokkuluri PR, Laible PD, Crawford AE, Mayfield JF, Yousef MA, Ginell SL, Hanson DK, Schiffer M. Temperature and cryoprotectant influence secondary quinone binding position in bacterial reaction centers. FEBS Lett 2004; 570:171-4. [PMID: 15251460 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.06.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2004] [Revised: 06/10/2004] [Accepted: 06/10/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We have determined the first de novo position of the secondary quinone QB in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center (RC) using phases derived by the single wavelength anomalous dispersion method from crystals with selenomethionine substitution. We found that in frozen RC crystals, QB occupies primarily the proximal binding site. In contrast, our room temperature structure showed that QB is largely in the distal position. Both data sets were collected in dark-adapted conditions. We estimate that the occupancy of the QB site is 80% with a proximal: distal ratio of 4:1 in frozen RC crystals. We could not separate the effect of freezing from the effect of the cryoprotectants ethylene glycol or glycerol. These results could have far-reaching implications in structure/function studies of electron transfer in the acceptor quinone complex because the above are the most commonly used cryoprotectants in spectroscopic experiments.
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- P Raj Pokkuluri
- Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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Utschig LM, Thurnauer MC. Metal ion modulated electron transfer in photosynthetic proteins. Acc Chem Res 2004; 37:439-47. [PMID: 15260506 DOI: 10.1021/ar020197v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Photosynthetic purple bacterial reaction center (RC) proteins are ideal native systems for addressing basic questions regarding the nature of biological electron transfer because both the protein structure and the electron-transfer reactions are well-characterized. Metal ion binding to the RC can affect primary photochemistry and provides a probe for understanding the involvement of local protein environments in electron transfer. The RC has two distinct transition metal ion binding sites, the well-known non-heme Fe(2+) site buried in the protein interior and a recently discovered Zn(2+) site located on the surface of the protein. Fe(2+) removal and Zn(2+) binding systematically affect different electron-transfer steps in the RC. Factors involved in the metal ion alteration of RC electron transfer may provide a paradigm for other biological systems involved in electron transfer.
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- Lisa M Utschig
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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Utschig LM, Astashkin AV, Raitsimring AM, Thurnauer MC, Poluektov OG. Pulsed EPR/ENDOR Characterization of the Cu2+ Surface Site in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers. J Phys Chem B 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp037730o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- L. M. Utschig
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, and Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, and Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, and Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, and Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, and Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Francia F, Palazzo G, Mallardi A, Cordone L, Venturoli G. Residual water modulates QA- -to-QB electron transfer in bacterial reaction centers embedded in trehalose amorphous matrices. Biophys J 2004; 85:2760-75. [PMID: 14507738 PMCID: PMC1303499 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74698-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The role of protein dynamics in the electron transfer from the reduced primary quinone, Q(A)(-), to the secondary quinone, Q(B), was studied at room temperature in isolated reaction centers (RC) from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides by incorporating the protein in trehalose water systems of different trehalose/water ratios. The effects of dehydration on the reaction kinetics were examined by analyzing charge recombination after different regimes of RC photoexcitation (single laser pulse, double flash, and continuous light) as well as by monitoring flash-induced electrochromic effects in the near infrared spectral region. Independent approaches show that dehydration of RC-containing matrices causes reversible, inhomogeneous inhibition of Q(A)(-)-to-Q(B) electron transfer, involving two subpopulations of RCs. In one of these populations (i.e., active), the electron transfer to Q(B) is slowed but still successfully competing with P(+)Q(A)(-) recombination, even in the driest samples; in the other (i.e., inactive), electron transfer to Q(B) after a laser pulse is hindered, inasmuch as only recombination of the P(+)Q(A)(-) state is observed. Small residual water variations ( approximately 7 wt %) modulate fully the relative fraction of the two populations, with the active one decreasing to zero in the driest samples. Analysis of charge recombination after continuous illumination indicates that, in the inactive subpopulation, the conformational changes that rate-limit electron transfer can be slowed by >4 orders of magnitude. The reported effects are consistent with conformational gating of the reaction and demonstrate that the conformational dynamics controlling electron transfer to Q(B) is strongly enslaved to the structure and dynamics of the surrounding medium. Comparing the effects of dehydration on P(+)Q(A)(-)-->PQ(A) recombination and Q(A)(-)Q(B)-->Q(A)Q(B)(-) electron transfer suggests that conformational changes gating the latter process are distinct from those stabilizing the primary charge-separated state.
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- Francesco Francia
- Laboratorio di Biochimica e Biofisica, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Ishikita H, Knapp EW. Variation of Ser-L223 Hydrogen Bonding with the QB Redox State in Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Am Chem Soc 2004; 126:8059-64. [PMID: 15212556 DOI: 10.1021/ja038092q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ser-L223 is close to ubiquinone (Q(B)) in the B-branch of the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center (bRC) from Rhodobacter (Rb) sphaeroides. Therefore, the presence of a hydrogen bond (H bond) between the two was naturally proposed from the crystal structure. The hydrogen bonding pattern of Q(B) from the light-exposed structure was studied by generating hydrogen atom coordinates based on the CHARMM force field. In the Q(B) neutral charge state (Q(B)(0)), no H bond was found between the oxygen of the OH group from Ser-L223 and the carbonyl oxygen of Q(B) that is distal to the non-heme iron. In the reduced state (Q(B)(-)), however, Ser-L213 was found to form an H bond with Q(B) only when Asp-L213 is protonated by more than 0.75 H(+). This indicates the significance of the protonation of Asp-L213 in forming an H bond between Ser-L223 and Q(B). We found that the driving force to form the H bond between Ser-L223 and Q(B) is enhanced by the positively charged Arg-L217. The calculated Q(B) redox potentials with or without this H bond discriminated two ET rates, which are close to the faster and slower time phases observed in UV-Vis and FTIR studies. Together with the calculated redox potential of the quinones, this H-bond formation could play a key role in conformational gating for the ET process from Q(A) to Q(B).
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- Hiroshi Ishikita
- Institute of Chemistry, Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, Free University of Berlin, Takustrasse 6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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Chen LX, Utschig LM, Schlesselman SL, Tiede DM. Temperature and Light-Induced Structural Changes in Photosynthetic Reaction Center Proteins Probed by X-ray Absorption Fine Structure. J Phys Chem B 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp036220r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Lin X. Chen
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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Remy A, Gerwert K. Coupling of light-induced electron transfer to proton uptake in photosynthesis. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2003; 10:637-44. [PMID: 12872158 DOI: 10.1038/nsb954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2002] [Accepted: 06/11/2003] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Light energy is transformed into chemical energy in photosynthesis by coupling a light-induced electron transfer to proton uptake. The resulting proton gradient drives ATP synthesis. In this study, we monitored the light-induced reactions in a 100-kDa photosynthetic protein from 30 ns to 35 s by FTIR difference spectroscopy. The results provide detailed mechanistic insights into the electron and proton transfer reactions of the QA to QB transition: reduction of QA in picoseconds induces protonation of histidines, probably of His126 and His128 in the H subunit at the entrance of the proton uptake channel, and of Asp210 in the L subunit inside the channel at 12 micros and 150 micros. This seems to be a prerequisite for the reduction of QB, mainly at 150 micros. QA- is reoxidized at 1.1 ms, and a proton is transferred from Asp210 to Glu212 in the L subunit, the proton donor to QB-. Notably, our data indicate that QB is not reduced directly by QA- but presumably through an intermediary electron donor.
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- André Remy
- Lehrstuhl für Biophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Postfach 102148, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Poluektov OG, Utschig LM, Dalosto S, Thurnauer MC. Probing Local Dynamics of the Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center with a Cysteine Specific Spin Label. J Phys Chem B 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0342374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Oleg G. Poluektov
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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Taly A, Sebban P, Smith JC, Ullmann GM. The position of QB in the photosynthetic reaction center depends on pH: a theoretical analysis of the proton uptake upon QB reduction. Biophys J 2003; 84:2090-8. [PMID: 12609910 PMCID: PMC1302777 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)75016-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2002] [Accepted: 09/26/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Electrostatics-based calculations have been performed to examine the proton uptake upon reduction of the terminal electron acceptor Q(B) in the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides as a function of pH and the associated conformational equilibrium. Two crystal structures of the reaction center were considered: one structure was determined in the dark and the other under illumination. In the two structures, the Q(B) was found in two different positions, proximal or distal to the nonheme iron. Because Q(B) was found mainly in the distal position in the dark and only in the proximal position under illumination, the two positions have been attributed mostly to the oxidized and the reduced forms of Q(B), respectively. We calculated the proton uptake upon Q(B) reduction by four different models. In the first model, Q(B) is allowed to equilibrate between the two positions with either oxidation state. This equilibrium was allowed to vary with pH. In the other three models the distribution of Q(B) between the proximal position and the distal position was pH-independent, with Q(B) occupying only the distal position or only the proximal position or populating the two positions with a fixed ratio. Only the first model, which includes the pH-dependent conformational equilibrium, reproduces both the experimentally measured pH dependence of the proton uptake and the crystallographically observed conformational equilibrium at pH 8. From this model, we find that Q(B) occupies only the distal position below pH 6.5 and only the proximal position above pH 9.0 in both oxidation states. Between these pH values both positions are partially occupied. The reduced Q(B) has a higher occupancy in the proximal position than the oxidized Q(B). In summary, the present results indicate that the conformational equilibrium of Q(B) depends not only on the redox state of Q(B), but also on the pH value of the solution.
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- Antoine Taly
- Biocomputing Group, IWR, INF 368, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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Goushcha AO, Manzo AJ, Scott GW, Christophorov LN, Knox PP, Barabash YM, Kapoustina MT, Berezetska NM, Kharkyanen VN. Self-regulation phenomena applied to bacterial reaction centers: 2. Nonequilibrium adiabatic potential: dark and light conformations revisited. Biophys J 2003; 84:1146-60. [PMID: 12547795 PMCID: PMC1302691 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74930-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Experimental and theoretical results in support of nonlinear dynamic behavior of photosynthetic reaction centers under light-activated conditions are presented. Different conditions of light adaptation allow for preparation of reaction centers in either of two different conformational states. These states were detected both by short actinic flashes and by the switching of the actinic illumination level between different stationary state values. In the second method, the equilibration kinetics of reaction centers isolated from Rhodobacter sphaeroides were shown to be inherently biphasic. The fast and slow equilibration kinetics are shown to correspond to electron transfer (charge separation) at a fixed structure and to combined electron-conformational transitions governed by the bounded diffusion along the potential surface, respectively. The primary donor recovery kinetics after an actinic flash revealed a pronounced dependence on the time interval (deltat) between cessation of a lengthy preillumination of a sample and the actinic flash. A pronounced slow relaxation component with a decay half time of more than 50 s was measured for deltat > 10 s. This component corresponds to charge recombination in reaction centers for which light-induced structural changes have not relaxed completely before the flash. The amplitude of this component depended on the conditions of the sample preparation, specifically on the type of detergent used in the preparation. The redox potential parameters as well as the structural diffusion constants were estimated for samples prepared in different ways.
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- Alexander O Goushcha
- Department of Chemistry, University of California/Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
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Taly A, Baciou L, Sebban P. The DMPC lipid phase transition influences differently the first and the second electron transfer reactions in bacterial reaction centers. FEBS Lett 2002; 532:91-6. [PMID: 12459469 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03635-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides were incorporated in dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) liposomes. The first and second electron transfer rates (k(AB)(1) and k(AB)(2), respectively) between the first and the second quinone electron acceptors have been measured as a function of temperature, across the phase transition of DMPC (23 degrees C). The Eyring plots of k(AB)(1) display straight lines. In contrast, the Eyring plots for k(AB)(2) in proteoliposomes show a break at about 23.5 degrees C. This physical discrimination between the two electron transfer reactions demonstrates that the stiffness of the lipid environment of the RCs and/or the protein-protein interactions influence the parameters governing k(AB)(2), but not the gating process limiting k(AB)(1).
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- Antoine Taly
- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Bâtiment 24, CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Tandori J, Maroti P, Alexov E, Sebban P, Baciou L. Key role of proline L209 in connecting the distant quinone pockets in the reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:6702-6. [PMID: 11983861 PMCID: PMC124466 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.092327799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2001] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers convert light excitation into chemical free energy. The initial electron transfer leads to the consecutive semireductions of the primary (Q(A)) and secondary (Q(B)) quinone acceptors. The Q(A)(-) and Q(B)(-) formations induce proton uptake from the bulk. Their magnitudes (H(+)/Q(A)(-) and H(+)/Q(B)(-), respectively) probe the electrostatic interactions within the complex. The pH dependence of H(+)/Q(A)(-) and H(+)/Q(B)(-) were studied in five single mutants modified at the L209 site (L209P-->F,Y,W,E,T). This residue is situated at the border of a continuous chain of water molecules connecting Q(B) to the bulk. In the wild type (WT), a proton uptake band is present at high pH in the H(+)/Q(A)(-) and H(+)/Q(B)(-) curves and is commonly attributed to a cluster of acidic groups situated nearby Q(B). In the H(+)/Q(A)(-) curves of the L209 variants, this band is systematically absent but remains in the H(+)/Q(B)(-) curves. Moreover, notable increase of H(+)/Q(B)(-) is observed in the L209 mutants at neutral pH as compared with the WT. The large effects observed in all L209 mutants are not associated with significant structural changes (Kuglstatter, A., Ermler, U., Michel, H., Baciou, L. & Fritzsch, G. Biochemistry (2001) 40, 4253-4260). Our data suggest that, in the L209 mutants, the Q(B) cluster does not respond to the Q(A)(-) formation as observed in the WT. We propose that, in the mutants, removal of the rigid proline L209 breaks a necessary hydrogen bonding connection between the quinone sites. These findings suggest an important role for structural rigidity in ensuring a functional interaction between quinone binding sites.
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- J Tandori
- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Tandori J, Miksovska J, Valerio-Lepiniec M, Schiffer M, Maróti P, Hanson DK, Sebban P. Proton uptake of rhodobacter capsulatus reaction center mutants modified in the primary quinone environment. Photochem Photobiol 2002; 75:126-33. [PMID: 11883600 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)075<0126:puorcr>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Flash-induced absorbance spectroscopy was used to analyze the proton uptake and electron transfer properties of photosynthetic reaction centers (RC) of Rhodobacter capsulatus that have been genetically modified near the primary quinone electron acceptor (Q(A)). M246Ala and M247Ala, which are symmetry-related to the positions of two acidic groups, L212Glu and L213Asp, in the secondary quinone electron acceptor (QB) protein environment, have been mutated to Glu and Asp, respectively. The pH dependence of the stoichiometry of proton uptake upon formation of the P+Q(A)- (H+/P+Q(A)-) and PQ(A) (H+/Q(A)-) (P is the primary electron donor, a noncovalently linked bacteriochlorophyll dimer) states have been measured in the M246Ala --> Glu and the M247Ala --> Asp mutant RC, in the M246Ala-M247Ala --> Glu-Asp double mutant and in the wild type (WT). Our results show that the introduction of an acidic group (Glu or Asp) in the QA protein region induces notable additional proton uptake over a large pH region (approximately 6-9), which reflects a delocalized response of the protein to the formation of Q(A)-. This may indicate the existence of a widely spread proton reservoir in the cytoplasmic region of the protein. Interestingly, the pH titration curves of the proton release caused by the formation of P+ (H+/P+: difference between H+/P+Q(A)- and H+/PQ(A)- curves) are nearly superimposable in the WT and the M246Ala --> Glu mutant RC, but substantial additional proton release is detected between pH 7 and 9 in the M247Ala --> Asp mutant RC. This effect can be accounted for by an increased proton release by the P+ environment in the M247Ala --> Asp mutant. The M247Ala --> Asp mutation reveals the existence of an energetic and conformational coupling between donor and acceptor sides of the RC at a distance of nearly 30A.
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Kirmaier C, Laible PD, Czarnecki K, Hata AN, Hanson DK, Bocian DF, Holten D. Comparison of M-Side Electron Transfer in Rb. sphaeroides and Rb. capsulatus Reaction Centers. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp013264w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Christine Kirmaier
- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4833, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4833, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4833, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4833, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4833, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4833, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4833, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403
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Gopta OA, Semenov AY, Bloch DA. Electrogenic proton transfer in Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centers: effect of coenzyme Q(10) substitution by decylubiquinone in the Q(B) binding site. FEBS Lett 2001; 499:116-20. [PMID: 11418124 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02537-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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An electrometric technique was used to investigate the effect of coenzyme Q(10) (UQ), substitution by decylubiquinone (dQ) at the Q(B) binding site of reaction centers (UQ-RC and dQ-RC, respectively) on the electrogenic proton transfer kinetics upon Q(B) reduction in Rhodobacter sphaeroides chromatophores. Unlike dQ-RC, the kinetics of the second flash-induced proton uptake in UQ-RC clearly deviated from the mono-exponential one. The activation energy (about 30 kJ/mol) and the pH profile of the kinetics in dQ-RC were similar to those in UQ-RC, with the power law approximation used in the latter case. The interpretation of the data presumed the quinone translocation between the two binding positions within the Q(B) site. It is proposed that the native isoprenyl side chain (in contrast to decyl chain) favors the equilibrium binding of neutral quinone at the redox-active 'proximal' position, but causes a higher barrier for the hydroquinone movement from 'proximal' to 'distal' position.
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- O A Gopta
- Department of Bioenergetics, A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Building 'A', Moscow State University, Vorobyevy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia
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Cherepanov DA, Krishtalik LI, Mulkidjanian AY. Photosynthetic electron transfer controlled by protein relaxation: analysis by Langevin stochastic approach. Biophys J 2001; 80:1033-49. [PMID: 11222272 PMCID: PMC1301303 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)76084-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Relaxation processes in proteins range in time from picoseconds to seconds. Correspondingly, biological electron transfer (ET) could be controlled by slow protein relaxation. We used the Langevin stochastic approach to describe this type of ET dynamics. Two different types of kinetic behavior were revealed, namely: oscillating ET (that could occur at picoseconds) and monotonically relaxing ET. On a longer time scale, the ET dynamics can include two different kinetic components. The faster one reflects the initial, nonadiabatic ET, whereas the slower one is governed by the medium relaxation. We derived a simple relation between the relative extents of these components, the change in the free energy (DeltaG), and the energy of the slow reorganization Lambda. The rate of ET was found to be determined by slow relaxation at -DeltaG < or = Lambda. The application of the developed approach to experimental data on ET in the bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers allowed a quantitative description of the oscillating features in the primary charge separation and yielded values of Lambda for the slower low-exothermic ET reactions. In all cases but one, the obtained estimates of Lambda varied in the range of 70-100 meV. Because the vast majority of the biological ET reactions are only slightly exothermic (DeltaG > or = -100 meV), the relaxationally controlled ET is likely to prevail in proteins.
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- D A Cherepanov
- Division of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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