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Buscemi G, Trotta M, Vona D, Farinola GM, Milano F, Ragni R. Supramolecular Biohybrid Construct for Photoconversion Based on a Bacterial Reaction Center Covalently Bound to Cytochrome c by an Organic Light Harvesting Bridge. Bioconjug Chem 2023; 34:629-637. [PMID: 36896985 PMCID: PMC10120590 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.2c00527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023]
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A supramolecular construct for solar energy conversion is developed by covalently bridging the reaction center (RC) from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides and cytochrome c (Cyt c) proteins with a tailored organic light harvesting antenna (hCy2). The RC-hCy2-Cyt c biohybrid mimics the working mechanism of biological assemblies located in the bacterial cell membrane to convert sunlight into metabolic energy. hCy2 collects visible light and transfers energy to the RC, increasing the rate of photocycle between a RC and Cyt c that are linked in such a way that enhances proximity without preventing protein mobility. The biohybrid obtained with average 1 RC/10 hCy2/1.5 Cyt c molar ratio features an almost doubled photoactivity versus the pristine RC upon illumination at 660 nm, and ∼10 times higher photocurrent versus an equimolar mixture of the unbound proteins. Our results represent an interesting insight into photoenzyme chemical manipulation, opening the way to new eco-sustainable systems for biophotovoltaics.
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- Gabriella Buscemi
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Bari Aldo Moro, Via
Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto
per i Processi Chimico Fisici, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-IPCF), Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Bari Aldo Moro, Via
Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Bari Aldo Moro, Via
Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto
di Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISPA), Via P. le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Bari Aldo Moro, Via
Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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Okamura M. George Feher: a pioneer in reaction center research. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2014; 120:29-42. [PMID: 24104959 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9927-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2013] [Accepted: 09/16/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Our understanding of photosynthesis has been greatly advanced by the elucidation of the structure and function of the reaction center (RC), the membrane protein responsible for the initial light-induced charge separation in photosynthetic bacteria and green plants. Although today we know a great deal about the details of the primary processes in photosynthesis, little was known in the early days. George Feher made pioneering contributions to photosynthesis research in characterizing RCs from photosynthetic bacteria following the ground-breaking work of Lou Duysens and Rod Clayton (see articles in this issue by van Gorkom and Wraight). The work in his laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, started in the late 1960s and continued for over 30 years. He isolated a pure RC protein and used magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the primary reactants. Following this pioneering work, Feher studied the detailed structure of the RC and the basic electron and proton transfer functions that it performs using a wide variety of biophysical and biochemical techniques. These studies, together with work from many other researchers, have led to our present detailed understanding of these proteins and their function in photosynthesis. The present article is a brief historical account of his pioneering contributions to photosynthesis research. A more detailed description of his work can be found in an earlier biographical paper (Feher in Photosynth Res 55:1-40, 1998a).
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- Melvin Okamura
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0354, USA,
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Tiede DM, Chang CH. The Cytochrome-cBinding Surface of Reaction Centers fromRhodobacter sphaeroides. Isr J Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.198800029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Miyashita O, Axelrod HL, Onuchic JN. Different scenarios for inter-protein electron tunneling: the effect of water-mediated pathways. J Biol Phys 2013; 28:383-94. [PMID: 23345783 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020308521041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Recent theoretical developments now allow for reliable calculation oftunneling matrix elements in unimolecular biological electron transferreactions that have been tested experimentally. Most biological ETprocesses, however, are bimolecular, or involve large-scale proteindomain motions. In this paper, initial advances in this direction bystudying the inter-protein electron transfer between cytochrome c(2)andthe photosynthetic reaction center. Utilizing an approach that integratesmolecular dynamics and the Pathways method, we have observed that theensemble dominant tunneling pathways in this reaction go though thetyrosine 162 or are water mediated.
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- O Miyashita
- University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, California U.S.A
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Williams JC, Steiner LA, Ogden RC, Simon MI, Feher G. Primary structure of the M subunit of the reaction center from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 80:6505-9. [PMID: 16593385 PMCID: PMC390381 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.21.6505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The reaction center is a membrane-bound bacteriochlorophyll-protein complex that mediates the primary photochemical events in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. The previously determined amino-terminal sequences of the three subunits of the reaction center protein were used to design synthetic mixed oligonucleotide probes for the structural genes encoding the subunits. One of these probes was used to isolate and clone a fragment of DNA from R. sphaeroides that contained the gene encoding the M subunit. The nucleotide sequence of this gene was determined by the dideoxy method. In addition, a number of tryptic and chymotryptic peptides from the M protein were isolated and subjected to sequence analysis, and the sequence of the carboxyl terminus was determined. Together with the amino-terminal sequence, the data establish the primary structure of the M protein. The distribution of hydrophobic residues in the amino acid sequence suggests the presence of five membrane-spanning segments. A significant homology was found between the amino acid sequence of the M subunit and a thylakoid membrane protein (M(r) 32,000) from spinach that has been implicated in herbicide and quinone binding.
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- J C Williams
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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Abresch EC, Paddock ML, Villalobos M, Chang C, Okamura MY. Interaction between cytochrome c2 and the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: role of interprotein hydrogen bonds in binding and electron transfer. Biochemistry 2009; 47:13318-25. [PMID: 19053264 DOI: 10.1021/bi801675a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The role of short-range hydrogen bond interactions at the interface between electron transfer proteins cytochrome c(2) (cyt) and the reaction center (RC) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides was studied by mutation (to Ala) of RC residues Asn M187, Asn M188, and Gln L258 which form interprotein hydrogen bonds to cyt in the cyt-RC complex. The largest decrease in binding constant K(A) (8-fold) for a single mutation was observed for Asn M187, which forms an intraprotein hydrogen bond to the key residue Tyr L162 in the center of the contact region with a low solvent accessibility. Interaction between Asn M187 and Tyr L162 was also implicated in binding by double mutation of the two residues. The hydrogen bond mutations did not significantly change the second-order rate constant, k(2), indicating the mutations did not change the association rate for formation of the cyt-RC complex but increased the dissociation rate. The first-order electron transfer rate, k(e), for the cyt-RC complex was reduced by a factor of up to 4 (for Asn M187). The changes in k(e) were correlated with the changes in binding affinity but were not accompanied by increases in activation energy. We conclude that short-range hydrogen bond interactions contribute to the close packing of residues in the central contact region between the cyt and RC near Asn M187 and Tyr L162. The close packing contributes to fast electron transfer by increasing the rate of electronic coupling and contributes to the binding energy holding the cyt in position for times sufficient for electron transfer to occur.
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- Edward C Abresch
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Paddock ML, Weber KH, Chang C, Okamura MY. Interactions between cytochrome c2 and the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: the cation-pi interaction. Biochemistry 2005; 44:9619-25. [PMID: 16008347 PMCID: PMC2562582 DOI: 10.1021/bi050651d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The cation-pi interaction between positively charged and aromatic groups is a common feature of many proteins and protein complexes. The structure of the complex between cytochrome c(2) (cyt c(2)) and the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides exhibits a cation-pi complex formed between Arg-C32 on cyt c(2) and Tyr-M295 on the RC [Axelrod, H. L., et al. (2002) J. Mol. Biol. 319, 501-515]. The importance of the cation-pi interaction for binding and electron transfer was studied by mutating Tyr-M295 and Arg-C32. The first- and second-order rates for electron transfer were not affected by mutating Tyr-M295 to Ala, indicating that the cation-pi complex does not greatly affect the association process or structure of the state active in electron transfer. The dissociation constant K(D) showed a greater increase when Try-M295 was replaced with nonaromatic Ala (3-fold) as opposed to aromatic Phe (1.2-fold), which is characteristic of a cation-pi interaction. Replacement of Arg-C32 with Ala increased K(D) (80-fold) largely due to removal of electrostatic interactions with negatively charged residues on the RC. Replacement with Lys increased K(D) (6-fold), indicating that Lys does not form a cation-pi complex. This specificity for Arg may be due to a solvation effect. Double mutant analysis indicates an interaction energy between Tyr-M295 and Arg-C32 of approximately -24 meV (-0.6 kcal/mol). This energy is surprisingly small considering the widespread occurrence of cation-pi complexes and may be due to the tradeoff between the favorable cation-pi binding energy and the unfavorable desolvation energy needed to bury Arg-C32 in the short-range contact region between the two proteins.
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- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. Phone: (858) 534-2506. Fax: (858) 822-0007. E-mail:
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Gong XM, Paddock ML, Okamura MY. Interactions between cytochrome c2 and photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: changes in binding affinity and electron transfer rate due to mutation of interfacial hydrophobic residues are strongly correlated. Biochemistry 2004; 42:14492-500. [PMID: 14661961 DOI: 10.1021/bi035603c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The structure of the complex between cytochrome c(2) (cyt) and the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides shows contacts between hydrophobic residues Tyr L162, Leu M191, and Val M192 on the RC and the surface of the cyt [Axelrod et al. (2002) J. Mol. Biol. 319, 501-515]. The role of these hydrophobic residues in binding and electron transfer was investigated by replacing them with Ala and other residues. Mutations of the hydrophobic residues generally resulted in relatively small changes in the second-order electron-transfer rate k(2) (Brönsted coefficient, alpha( )()= 0.15 +/- 0.05) indicating that the transition state for association occurs before short-range hydrophobic contacts are established. Larger changes in k(2), found in some cases, were attributed to a change in the second-order mechanism from a diffusion controlled regime to a rapidly reversible binding regime. The association constant, K(A), of the cyt and the rate of electron transfer from the bound cyt, k(e), were both decreased by mutation. Replacement of Tyr L162, Leu M191, or Val M192 by Ala decreased K(A) and k(e) by factors of 130, 10, 0.6, and 120, 9, 0.6, respectively. The largest changes were obtained by mutation of Tyr L162, showing that this residue plays a key role in both binding and electron transfer. The binding affinity, K(A), and electron-transfer rate, k(e) were strongly correlated, showing that changes of hydrophobic residues affect both binding and electron transfer. This correlation suggests that changes in distance across hydrophobic interprotein contacts have similar effects on both electron tunneling and binding interactions.
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- Xiao-Min Gong
- Department of Physics 0319, 9500 Gilman Drive, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319, USA
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Axelrod HL, Abresch EC, Okamura MY, Yeh AP, Rees DC, Feher G. X-ray structure determination of the cytochrome c2: reaction center electron transfer complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Mol Biol 2002; 319:501-15. [PMID: 12051924 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(02)00168-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, a water soluble cytochrome c2 (cyt c2) is the electron donor to the reaction center (RC), the membrane-bound pigment-protein complex that is the site of the primary light-induced electron transfer. To determine the interactions important for docking and electron transfer within the transiently bound complex of the two proteins, RC and cyt c2 were co-crystallized in two monoclinic crystal forms. Cyt c2 reduces the photo-oxidized RC donor (D+), a bacteriochlorophyll dimer, in the co-crystals in approximately 0.9 micros, which is the same time as measured in solution. This provides strong evidence that the structure of the complex in the region of electron transfer is the same in the crystal and in solution. X-ray diffraction data were collected from co-crystals to a maximum resolution of 2.40 A and refined to an R-factor of 22% (R(free)=26%). The structure shows the cyt c2 to be positioned at the center of the periplasmic surface of the RC, with the heme edge located above the bacteriochlorophyll dimer. The distance between the closest atoms of the two cofactors is 8.4 A. The side-chain of Tyr L162 makes van der Waals contacts with both cofactors along the shortest intermolecular electron transfer pathway. The binding interface can be divided into two domains: (i) A short-range interaction domain that includes Tyr L162, and groups exhibiting non-polar interactions, hydrogen bonding, and a cation-pi interaction. This domain contributes to the strength and specificity of cyt c2 binding. (ii) A long-range, electrostatic interaction domain that contains solvated complementary charges on the RC and cyt c2. This domain, in addition to contributing to the binding, may help steer the unbound proteins toward the right conformation.
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- Herbert L Axelrod
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319, USA
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Tetreault M, Cusanovich M, Meyer T, Axelrod H, Okamura MY. Double mutant studies identify electrostatic interactions that are important for docking cytochrome c2 onto the bacterial reaction center. Biochemistry 2002; 41:5807-15. [PMID: 11980484 DOI: 10.1021/bi012053e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cytochrome c2 (cyt) is the mobile electron donor to the reaction center (RC) in photosynthetic bacteria. The electrostatic interactions involved in the dynamics of docking of cyt onto the RC were examined by double mutant studies of the rates of electron transfer between six modified Rhodobacter sphaeroides RCs in which negatively charged acid residues were replaced with Lys and five modified Rhodobacter capsulatus Cyt c2 molecules in which positively charged Lys residues were replaced with Glu. We measured the second-order rate constant, k2, for electron transfer from the reduced cyt to the oxidized primary donor on the RC, which reflects the energy of the transition state for the formation of the active electron transfer complex. Strong interactions were found between Lys C99 and Asp M184/Glu M95, and between Lys C54 and Asp L261/Asp L257. The interacting residues were found to be located close to each other in the recently determined crystal structure of the cyt-RC complex [Axelrod, H., et al. (2002) J. Mol. Biol. (in press)]. The interaction energies were approximately inversely proportional to the distances between charges. These results support earlier suggestions [Tetreault, M., et al. (2001) Biochemistry 40, 8452-8462] that the structure of the transition state in solution resembles the structure of the cyt-RC complex in the cocrystal and indicate that specific electrostatic interactions facilitate docking of the cyt onto the RC in a configuration optimized for both binding and electron transfer. The specific interaction between Asp M184 and Lys C99 may help to nucleate short-range hydrophobic contacts.
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- M Tetreault
- Department of Physics 0319, 9500 Gilman Drive, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Probing the smallest functional unit of the reaction center ofRhodospirillum rubrumG-9 with proteinases. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(84)80063-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Yang Q, Liu XY, Hara M, Lundahl P, Miyake J. Quantitative affinity chromatographic studies of mitochondrial cytochrome c binding to bacterial photosynthetic reaction center, reconstituted in liposome membranes and immobilized by detergent dialysis and avidin--biotin binding. Anal Biochem 2000; 280:94-102. [PMID: 10805526 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1999.4474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In order to study the affinity binding of c-type cytochromes to the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) by quantitative affinity chromatography (QAC), RC from Rhodobacter sphaeroides was reconstituted into liposomes composed of egg phosphatidylcholine (EPC) and 2 mol% of biotinyl phosphatidylethanolamine simultaneously as the liposomes were formed and immobilized in (strept)avidin-coupled gel beads by rotary detergent dialysis. The immobilized amount was up to 80 nmol of RC and 33 micromol of lipid/g of moist gel in streptavidin-coupled Sephacryl S-1000 gel. By QAC frontal runs, retardation of mitochondrial cyt c on immobilized RC liposome columns was demonstrated. The dissociation constant for the RC-cyt c interaction was determined to be 0.20-0.57 microM. QAC studies also allowed evaluation of the orientation of reconstituted RC in immobilized liposomes by comparison of the total amount of cyt c binding sites with the amount of available binding sites obtained by QAC. It seems that the RC proteoliposomes immobilized in Sephacryl S-1000 gel exposed the cyt c binding sites on the outer surface of the liposomes due to effects of the gel network pore size and the resulting liposomal size.
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- Q Yang
- National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Miyake J, Hara M. Molecular handling of photosynthetic proteins for molecular assembly construction. ADVANCES IN BIOPHYSICS 1997; 34:109-26. [PMID: 9204130 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-227x(97)89635-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Methods of constructing proteins were examined with special reference to the molecular assembly using photosynthetic RCs as membrane proteins. Molecular assemblies at the interfaces were studied by LB films, adsorption to the surface and reconstitution into liposomes and bilayer lipid membranes. The applications of biological specific ligands (recognition and binding), combinatorial chemical method, 2-D and 3-D order array assemblies and modification of protein molecules to make fusion proteins, as well as physical methods of manipulation of molecules by AFM tips and electric fields were reviewed.
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- J Miyake
- National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, AIST/MITI, Ibaraki, Japan
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Ueno T, Hirata Y, Hara M, Arai T, Sato A, Miyake J, Fujii T. Formation of cross-linked complex of photosynthetic reaction center and horse heart cytochrome c: an approach for molecular organization with cross-linkage. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0928-4931(95)00055-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Electron transfer between cytochrome c2 and the isolated reaction center of the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(94)90106-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Lelong C, Sétif P, Lagoutte B, Bottin H. Identification of the amino acids involved in the functional interaction between photosystem I and ferredoxin from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by chemical cross-linking. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)36986-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Verméglio A, Joliot P, Joliot A. The rate of cytochrome c2 photooxidation reflects the subcellular distribution of reaction centers in Rhodobacter sphaeroides Ga cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(93)90239-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Tiede DM, Vashishta AC, Gunner MR. Electron-transfer kinetics and electrostatic properties of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center and soluble c-cytochromes. Biochemistry 1993; 32:4515-31. [PMID: 8387335 DOI: 10.1021/bi00068a006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The kinetics of electron transfer between the Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 reaction center and nine soluble c-cytochromes have been analyzed and compared to the patterns of the surface electrostatic potentials for each of the proteins. Characteristic first-order electron-transfer rates for 1:1 complexes formed at low ionic strength between the reaction center and the different c-cytochromes were identified and found to vary by a factor of almost 100, while second-order rates were found to differ by greater than 10(6). A correlation was found between the location of likely electrostatic interaction domains on each cytochrome and its characteristic rate of electron transfer. The interaction domains were identified by mapping electrostatic potentials, calculated from the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, onto simulated "encounter surfaces" for each of the cytochromes and the reaction center. For the reaction center, the c-cytochrome binding domain was found to have almost exclusively net negative potential (< -3 kT) and to be shifted slightly toward the M-subunit side of the reaction center. The location of interaction domains of complementary, positive potential (> 3 kT) differed for each cytochrome. The correspondence between electrostatic, structural, and kinetic properties of 1:1 reaction center-cytochrome complexes leads to a proposed mechanism for formation of reaction center-cytochrome electron-transfer complexes that is primarily driven by the juxtaposition of regions of delocalized complementary potential. In this mechanism the clustering of charged residues is of primary importance and not the location of specific residues. A consequence of this mechanism is that many different sets of charge distributions are predicted to be capable of stabilizing a specific configuration for a reaction center-cytochrome complex. This mechanism for reaction center association with water-soluble c-cytochromes fits molecular recognition mechanisms proposed for c-cytochromes in nonphotosynthetic systems. In general, the kinetic scheme for reaction center driven cytochrome oxidation was found to vary between a simple two-state model, involving cytochrome in free and reaction center bound states, and a three-state model, that includes cytochrome binding in kinetically competent ("proximal") and incompetent ("distal") modes. The kinetically incompetent mode of cytochrome binding is suggested not to be an intrinsic feature of the reaction center-cytochrome association but is likely to be due to variation in the physical state of the reaction center.
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- D M Tiede
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois 60439
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Photoelectrochemical effects for chemically modified platinum electrodes with immobilized reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0302-4598(91)87031-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Solov'ev AA, Katz EY, Shuvalov VA, Erokhin YE. Photoelectrochemical effects for chemically modified platinum electrodes with immobilized reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-0728(91)85566-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Bartsch RG, Ambler RP, Meyer TE, Cusanovich MA. Effect of aerobic growth conditions on the soluble cytochrome content of the purple phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides: induction of cytochrome c554. Arch Biochem Biophys 1989; 271:433-40. [PMID: 2543295 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(89)90293-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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When grown anaerobically in the light, Rhodobacter sphaeroides contains appreciable quantities of cytochromes c2 and c', but smaller amounts of other soluble cytochromes such as cytochrome c551.5, cytochrome c554, and an oxygen-binding heme protein. When R. sphaeroides is mass cultured aerobically in the dark to stationary phase, the content of cytochrome c2 does not change appreciably, whereas cytochrome c554 is approximately 8-fold more abundant, cytochrome c' is at least 10-fold less abundant, and cytochrome c551.5 is fivefold lower than in the phototrophically grown cells. These observations confirm previous literature reports that in this organism a cytochrome c553 (or c554 in our experience) is more abundant when cells are grown aerobically. Furthermore, the aerobic cytochrome c554 is positively identified with the previously characterized minor cytochrome c554 component of anaerobic photosynthetic cells. Preliminary sequence results show that cytochrome c554 is a member of the cytochrome c' structural family, but differs from normal cytochromes c' in having a methionine sixth ligand to the heme. The levels of electron carrier proteins of low redox potential had previously been reported to be less in aerobic than in photoheterotrophic cells and we have verified that observation for the specific examples of cytochromes c' and c551.5. The oxygen binding heme protein, SHP, is not induced by aerobic growth.
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- R G Bartsch
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Bixon M, Jortner J. Cytochrome oxidation in bacterial photosynthesis. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1989; 22:29-37. [PMID: 24424676 DOI: 10.1007/bf00114764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/1989] [Accepted: 04/19/1989] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In this paper we propose that the reduction of the bacteriochlorophyl dimer cation (P(+)) by cytochrome c in the photosynthetic bacteria Rps. viridis and Chromatium vinosum proceeds via two parallel electron transfer (ET) processes from two distinct cytochrome c molecules. The dominating ET process at high temperatures involves the activated oxidation of the high-potential cytochrome c at closest proximity to P, while the dominating low-temperature process involves activationless ET from a low-potential cytochrome c, which is further away from P. The available data for the effects of blocking the low-potential cytochrome c on ET dynamics are consistent with this model, which results in reasonable nuclear reorganization and electronic coupling parameters for the parallel cytochrome oxidation processes. The lack of universality in the cytochrome oxidation in reaction centres of various bacteria is emphasized.
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- M Bixon
- School of Chemistry, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 69978, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Allen JP. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of cytochrome c2 from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Mol Biol 1988; 204:495-6. [PMID: 2851662 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(88)90592-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Allen JP, Feher G, Yeates TO, Komiya H, Rees DC. Structure of the reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26: the protein subunits. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:6162-6. [PMID: 2819866 PMCID: PMC299029 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.17.6162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 353] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The three-dimensional structure of the protein subunits of the reaction center (RC) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been determined by x-ray diffraction at a resolution of 2.8 A with an R factor of 26%. The L and M subunits each contain five transmembrane helices and several helices that do not span the membrane. The L and M subunits are related to each other by a 2-fold rotational symmetry axis that is approximately the same as that determined for the cofactors. The H subunit has one transmembrane helix and a globular domain on the cytoplasmic side, which contains a helix that does not span the membrane and several beta-sheets. The structural homology with RCs from other purple bacteria is discussed. A structure of the complex formed between the water soluble cytochrome c2 and the RC from Rb. sphaeroides is proposed.
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Recovery of the alternative oxidase dependent electron flow by fusion of membrane vesicles from Rhodobacter capsulatus mutant strains. Arch Microbiol 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00409887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Drachey L, Kaminskaya O, Konstantinov A, Kotova E, Mamedov M, Samuilov V, Semenov A, Skulachev V. The effect of cytochrome c, hexammineruthenium and ubiquinone-10 on the kinetics of photoelectric responses of Rhodospirillum rubrum reaction centres. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(86)90169-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hoger JH, Kaplan S. Topology and neighbor analysis of the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)88869-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Rieder R, Wiemken V, Bachofen R, Bosshard HR. Binding of cytochrome c2 to the isolated reaction center of Rhodospirillum rubrum involves the "backside" of cytochrome c2. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1985; 128:120-6. [PMID: 2985069 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(85)91653-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Lys 109, Lys 112 and Glu 1 of cytochrome c2 from Rhodospirillum rubrum G-9 are about 4-fold less reactive towards acetic anhydride when cytochrome c2 is bound to the isolated photosynthetic reaction center from the same organism. The three shielded residues are clustered together on the "backside" of cytochrome c2. This contrasts with mitochondrial cytochrome c where "frontside" lysines are protected by different physiological electron transfer partners.
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Kranz RG, Gennis RB. Characterization of the cytochrome d terminal oxidase complex of Escherichia coli using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies. J Biol Chem 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42892-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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