Electron tunneling in proteins: role of the intervening medium |
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Authors: | Ralf Langen Jorge L. Colón Danilo R. Casimiro Timothy B. Karpishin Jay R. Winkler H. B. Gray |
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Affiliation: | (1) Beckman Institute, 139-74, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, US |
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Abstract: | Analysis of electron-transfer (ET) kinetics data obtained from experiments on Ru-modified proteins (azurin, cytochrome c, myoglobin) and the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center reveals that distant donor-acceptor electronic couplings depend upon the secondary structure of the intervening polypeptide matrix. The β-sheet azurin structure efficiently and isotropically mediates coupling with an exponential distance-decay constant of 1.1?Å–1. The experimentally derived distance-decay constant of 1.4?Å–1 for long-range ET in myoglobin and the reaction center suggests that hydrogen-bond couplings are weaker through α helices than across β sheets. The donor-acceptor interactions of systems with comparable tunneling energies fall into two coupling zones: the β zone (bounded by distance-decay constants of 0.9?and 1.15 Å–1) includes all the β-sheet (azurin) couplings and all but one coupling in cytochrome c; the α zone (boundaries: 1.25 and 1.6?Å–1) includes less strongly coupled donor-acceptor pairs in myoglobin and the reaction center as well as a relatively weakly coupled pair in cytochrome c. |
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Keywords: | Electron transfer Tunneling pathways Azurin Cytochrome c Myoglobin |
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