Comparison of the electron spin polarized spectrum found in plant photosystem I and in iron-depleted bacterial reaction centers with time-resolved K-band EPR; evidence that the photosystem I acceptor A1 is a quinone |
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Authors: | J Petersen D Stehlik P Gast M Thurnauer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, Free University Berlin, FB 20 WE 1B, D-1000, 33 Berlin, FRG;(2) Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 60637 Chicago, IL, USA;(3) Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA |
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Abstract: | The suggestion that the electron acceptor A1 in plant photosystem I (PSI) is a quinone molecule is tested by comparisons with the bacterial photosystem. The electron spin polarized (ESP) EPR signal due to the oxidized donor and reduced quinone acceptor (P
870
+
Q-) in iron-depleted bacterial reaction centers has similar spectral characteristics as the ESP EPR signal in PSI which is believed to be due to P
700
+
A
1
-
, the oxidized PSI donor and reduced A1. This is also true for better resolved spectra obtained at K-band (24 GHz). These same spectral characteristics can be simulated using a powder spectrum based on the known g-anisotropy of reduced quinones and with the same parameter set for Q- and A1
-. The best resolution of the ESP EPR signal has been obtained for deuterated PSI particles at K-band. Simulation of the A1
- contribution based on g-anisotropy yields the same parameters as for bacterial Q- (except for an overall shift in the anisotropic g-factors, which have previously been determined for Q-). These results provide evidence that A1 is a quinone molecule. The electron spin polarized signal of P700
+ is part of the better resolved spectrum from the deuterated PSI particles. The nature of the P700
+ ESP is not clear; however, it appears that it does not exhibit the polarization pattern required by mechanisms which have been used so far to explain the ESP in PSI.Abbreviations hf
hyperfine
- A0
A0 acceptor of photosystem I
- A1
A1 acceptor of photosystem I
- Brij-58
polyoxyethylene 20 cetyl ether
- CP1
photosystem I particles which lack ferridoxin acceptors
- ESP
electron spin polarized
- EPR
electron paramagnetic resonance
- I
intermediary electron acceptor, bacteriopheophytin
- LDAO
lauryldimethylamine
- N-oxide, P700
primary electron donor of photosystem I
- PSI
photosystem I
- P700
T
triplet state of primary donor of photosystem I
- P870
primary donor in R. sphaeroides reaction center
- Q
quinore-acceptor in photosynthetic bacteria
- RC
reaction center |
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Keywords: | bacterial quinone acceptor electron paramagnetic resonance electron spin polarization photosystem I PSI acceptor A1 time-resolved EPR |
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