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Trapping conformational intermediate states in the reaction center protein from photosynthetic bacteria.

Abstract：

:In protein, conformational changes are often crucial for function but not easy to observe. Two functionally relevant conformational intermediate states of photosynthetic reaction center protein (RCs) are trapped and characterized at low temperature. RCs frozen in the dark do not allow electron transfer from the reduced primary quinone, Q(A)(-), to the secondary quinone, Q(B). In contrast, RCs frozen under illumination in the product (P(+)Q(A)Q(B)(-)) state, with the oxidized electron donor, P(+), and reduced Q(B)(-), return to the ground state at cryogenic temperature in a conformation that allows a high yield of Q(B) reduction. Thus, RCs frozen under illumination are found to be trapped above the ground state in a conformation that allows product formation. When the temperature is raised above 120 K, the protein relaxes to an inactive conformation which is different from the RCs frozen in the dark. The activation energy for this change is 87 +/- 8 meV, and the active and inactive states differ in energy by only 16 +/- 3 meV. Thus, there are several conformational substates along the reaction coordinate with different transition temperatures. The ground state spectra of the RCs in active and inactive conformations report differences in the intraprotein electrostatic field, demonstrating that the dipole or charge distribution has changed. In addition, the electrochromic shift associated with the Q(A)(-) to Q(B) electron transfer at low temperature was characterized. The electron-transfer rate from Q(B)(-) to P(+) was measured at cryogenic temperature and is similar to the rate at room temperature, as expected for an exothermic, electron tunneling reaction in RCs.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Xu Q,Gunner MR

doi

10.1021/bi002326q

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-03-13 00:00:00

pages

3232-41

issue

10

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

pii

bi002326q

journal_volume

40

pub_type

杂志文章

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