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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra were recorded of whole filaments of the cyanobacteria Nostoc muscorum and Anabaena cylindrica. Signals due to manganese were removed by freezing and thawing the cells in EDTA. EPR spectra were assigned on the basis of their g values, linewidths, temperature dependence and response to dithionite and light treatments. The principal components identified were: (i) rhombic Fe3+ (signal at g = 4.3), probably a soluble storage form of iron; (ii) iron-sulfur centers A and B of Photosystem I; (iii) the photochemical electron acceptor ‘X’ of Photosystem I; this component was also observed for the first time in isolated heterocysts; (iv) soluble ferredoxin which was present at a concentration of 1 molecule per 140 ± 20 chlorophyll molecules; (v) a membrane-bound iron-sulfur protein (g = 1.92). A signal g = 6 in the oxidized state was probably due to an unidentified heme compound. During deprivation of iron the rhombic Fe3+, centers A, B and X of Photosystem I, and soluble ferredoxin were all observed to decrease. 相似文献
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Characterization of heat injury in grapes using h nuclear magnetic resonance methods : changes in transverse relaxation times
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Transverse relaxation times (T2) of tissue water (1H) in leaves and suspension cultured cells of grape hybrids (Vitis spp. cv `Venus' and `Veeblanc') were measured by nuclear magnetic resonance at various temperatures. The tissue water was characterized by two T2 time constants. A sharp decrease in T2 for the major fraction of tissue water was observed in association with heat injury, as measured by electrolyte leakage and triphenyltetrazolium chloride reduction in both leaves and suspension cultured cells. The changes in T2 as a result of heat injury were irreversible, as indicated by a temperature dependent hysteresis of T2. Studies using a paramagnetic probe (Mn+2) indicated that the plasma membrane was irreversibly damaged at the killing temperature, resulting in a loss of cell compartmentalization. Tissue water in heat-killed samples was characterized by only a single T2. 相似文献
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F E Evans 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》1979,193(1):63-75
The 40-MHz 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectrum of intact HeLa cells contains seven broad peaks with some detectable splittings. The linewidths were significantly broader than for those of cell-free systems such as cell extracts, indicating that the cellular environment is responsible for the unusual line broadening. Resolution of these peaks at 40 MHz is sufficient to make certain assignments and the relaxation parameters of some of the intracellular metabolites have been measured. The spin-lattice relaxation times (T1) ranged from 0.3 s for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to about 3 s for inorganic phosphate (Pi) and monophosphate compounds. Nuclear Overhauser enhancements (NOE) were induced by proton irradiation with the possible exception of ATP. The relaxation parameters were compared to those of cell-free compounds and in all cases T1 and NOE were smaller for the intracellular metabolites. The relaxation parameters for ATP were affected the most. This behavior was mimicked with mixtures of cell-free metabolites containing paramagnetic ions. The larger change in both T1 and NOE of intracellular ATP could be accounted for by selective binding of paramagnetic ions. This phenomenon also explains some of the line broadening in the cell spectrum especially that of ATP. The spin-spin relaxation times (T2) of P1 and monophosphate compounds as measured by a pulse technique did not account for the observed linewidths. This is due to the presence of chemical shift envelopes arising from pH heterogeneity. All resonances were broader at 146 MHz because of the line broadening by paramagnetic ions and the presence of chemical shift envelopes. Other mechanisms of line broadening may also be significant. There was little difference in resolution of spectra at 40 and 146 MHz. Water proton linewidths and T2 values were measured for HeLa cells and for some minced tissue preparations. The water linewidth in tissue samples was broader than that in the cell suspension. The large linewidths in tissues arise mainly from chemical shift envelopes caused by magnetic field nonuniformity in the tissue samples. There appears to be a small chemical shift envelope from magnetic nonuniformity in HeLa cells as well. The 1H results on envelopes were extrapolated to 31P studies on cells and tissues. Possible methods for reducing linewidths arising from the various proposed broadening mechanisms were discussed. 相似文献
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A single alkaline wash removes most of the succinic dehydrogenase activity from chromatophores of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Three iron-sulfur centers are also removed by this washing. Two of these are ferredoxin-like centers with electron paramagnetic resonance signals at gv = 1.94 and midpoint potentials of +50 and ?250 mV at pH 7. The third is a high-potential iron-sulfur protein type signal centered at g 2.01 and a midpoint potential of +80 mV at pH 7. These centers have very similar properties to those of the well-characterized mammalian succinic dehydrogenase and account for the majority of iron-sulfur centers observed in chromatophores. Because it is so easily removed, it is concluded that succinic dehydrogenase is located on the outer surface of the chromatophore membrane, a conclusion supported by the fact that removal of the enzyme does not interfere with the kinetics of light-induced electron flow, nor does it allow cytochrome c2 to escape from inside the chromatophore vesicles. 相似文献
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Pablo J. González Alberto C. Rizzi Mario C.G. Passeggi 《Journal of inorganic biochemistry》2009,103(10):1342-1346
Electron transfer proteins and redox enzymes containing paramagnetic redox centers with different relaxation rates are widespread in nature. Despite both the long distances and chemical paths connecting these centers, they can present weak magnetic couplings produced by spin-spin interactions such as dipolar and isotropic exchange. We present here a theoretical model based on the Bloch-Wangsness-Redfield theory to analyze the dependence with temperature of EPR spectra of interacting pairs of spin 1/2 centers having different relaxation rates, as is the case of the molybdenum-containing enzyme aldehyde oxidoreductase from Desulfovibrio gigas. We analyze the changes of the EPR spectra of the slow relaxing center (Mo(V)) induced by the faster relaxing center (FeS center). At high temperatures, when the relaxation time T1 of the fast relaxing center is very short, the magnetic coupling between centers is averaged to zero. Conversely, at low temperatures when T1 is longer, no modulation of the coupling between metal centers can be detected. 相似文献
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The Origin of the Multiline and g = 4.1 Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Signals from the Oxygen-Evolving System of Photosystem II
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Continuous illumination at 200 K of photosystem (PS) II-enriched membranes generates two electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signals that both are connected with the S2 state: a multiline signal at g 2 and a single line at g = 4.1. From measurements at three different X-band frequencies and at 34 GHz, the g tensor of the multiline species was found to be isotropic with g = 1.982. It has an excited spin multiplet at ~30 cm-1, inferred from the temperature-dependence of the linewidth. The intensity ratio of the g = 4.1 signal to the multiline signal was found to be almost constant from 5 to 23 K. Based on these findings and on spin quantitation of the two signals in samples with and without 4% ethanol, it is concluded that they arise from the ground doublets of paramagnetic species in different PS II centers. It is suggested that the two signals originate from separate PS II electron donors that are in a redox equilibrium with each other in the S2 state and that the g = 4.1 signal arises from monomeric Mn(IV). 相似文献
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The lyotropic behavior and glass-forming properties of octyl β-d-glucoside (C8Glu) and octyl β-d-thioglucoside (C8SGlu)/water binary mixtures were evaluated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarizing optical microscopy (POM). The results clearly indicate that the mixture forms a glass in the supercooling state of liquid crystalline phases such as cubic, lamellar, and smectic. The glass transition temperature (Tg) of the mixture was strongly dependent on solute concentration, with a higher concentration correlating with a higher Tg. The experimental Tg was consistent with the predicted value calculated using the Couchman-Karasz equation in both the C8Glu and C8SGlu/water mixtures. The change of heat capacity at Tg showed the two bending points under variation of concentrations. And the highest temperature of phase transition from lamellar to isotropic solution was observed at around 50% molar concentration. It was expected that non-percolated state of water existed in extremely higher concentration ranges. 相似文献
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The effect of adding 1–8% amylose complexing fatty acids (CFA), such as linoleic and oleic acids, on the glass transition temperature (Tg) of cassava starch (CS) with moisture content varying from 5 to 35% (dry basis) was studied. The main relaxation temperature (Tα), associated with the glass transition temperature of the samples (Tg), was determined by dynamic-mechanical-thermal analysis. The plasticizing behavior of water in the blends was evidenced by a decrease of Tα values with moisture content. The effect of CFA on CS was found to be a function of moisture content. At low moisture (<11%) it caused an anti-plasticization effect, while at higher moisture contents it produced plasticization. The anti-plasticizing effect of CFA on CS was attributed to amylose–lipid complex formation. 相似文献
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The transverse water proton relaxation times (T2) of erythrocytes homozygous and heterozygous for hemoglobin S have been measured as a function of oxyhemoglobin concentration at 37 °C. An immediate decrease in T2 is observed in S/S erythrocytes as the amount of oxyhemoglobin is decreased and the maximum change is observed at 50% deoxyhemoglobin S. In heterozygous erythrocytes, the T2 remains unchanged until a critical level of deoxyhemoglobin is attained. The critical level of deoxyhemoglobin is a function of the percentage of hemoglobin S in the heterozygous erythrocytes. A Hill plot of the data obtained from S/S erythrocytes gives an n value of around 2.4. These results suggest that the measurement of T2 is sensitive to the very early stages of the polymerization process. This suggestion is supported by calculations; our T2 measurements are sensitive to a range of correlation times expected for hemoglobin monomers at one extreme and linear polymers of seven hemoglobin molecules at the other extreme. 相似文献
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Oriented multilayers made from beef heart and yeast mitochondria and submitochondrial particles were studied using electron paramagnetic resonance. EPR signals from membrane-bound iron-sulfur clusters and from a spin-coupled ubiquinone pair are highly orientation dependent, implying that these redox centers are fixed in the membrane at definite angles relative to the membrane plane. Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane. This finding is discussed in terms of the protein structure. the tetranuclear iron-sulfur clusters can have their gz axis either perpendicular or parallel to the membrane plane, but intermediate orientation was not observed. 相似文献
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《Journal of Biomedical Engineering》1979,1(3):153-160
The distribution of proton spin concentration (water concentration) and the proton spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) can be imaged in a sample by placing it in a magnetic field gradient, applying appropriate radio-frequency (rf) pulses, and measuring the rf radiated from the sample. The Aberdeen machine is designed to image the human body in vivo at 400 gauss and 1.7 MHz. The spatial resolution predicted is about 1 cm for a 20% difference of T1. Measurements of T1 for small samples of tissue in vitro show a five-fold range of values for some soft tissues. Breast tumours and liver metastases have shown T1 values very different from the surrounding tissue. The method has the potential of perhaps imaging any pathology which changes water concentration, forms fluid pools or affects the binding of water to macromolecules. The potential hazards, which need more investigation, seem slight. 相似文献
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The binding of Mn2+ to the anthranilate synthetase-phosphoribosyltransferase enzyme complex from Salmonella typhimurium was examined by electron paramagnetic resonance studies. Two types of binding sites were observed: one to two tight sites with a dissociation constant of 3–5 μm and five to six weaker sites with a dissociation constant of 40–70 μm. The activator constant for Mn2+ was found to be 9 μm for the glutamine-linked anthranilate synthetase activity and 4 μm for the phosphoribosyltransferase activity. These values are both in the range of the dissociation constant for the tight sites. Water proton relaxation rate measurements showed that the binary enhancement values for both classes of sites were equivalent, ?b = 10.7 ± 2.0. The addition of chorismate to the Mn2+-enzyme complexes when predominantly the tight Mn2+ sites were occupied resulted in a large decrease in the observed enhancement (?T = 2.0). Addition of 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate to the enzyme-Mn2+ complexes caused large decreases in the water proton relaxation rate (?T = 1.5) when tight or tight plus weaker Mn2+ sites were occupied. No changes in the water proton relaxation rate were observed when glutamine, pyruvate, or anthranilate were added; a small decrease was observed when enzyme-Mn2+ was titrated with tryptophan. Tryptophan significantly altered the effect of the binding of chorismate but not of 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate. The effect of tryptophan on the water proton relaxation rate of a Mn2+-enzyme-chorismate complex using a variant enzyme complex which is tryptophan hypersensitive (P. D. Robison, and H. R. Levy, 1976, Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 445, 475–485) occurred at lower concentrations than for the normal enzyme complex. The uncomplexed anthranilate synthetase subunit was titrated with Mn2+ and found to have one to two binding sites with a dissociation constant of 300 ± 100 μm. This dissociation constant is much larger than the activator constant for Mn2+ for uncomplexed anthranilate synthetase which was determined to be 4 μm. These results indicate that the Mn2+-binding sites on anthranilate synthetase are altered when the enzyme complex is formed and that both chorismate and 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate interact closely with enzyme-bound Mn2+ or cause a large effect upon its environment. 相似文献
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l-Tryptophan-2,3-dioxygenase, (EC 1.13.1.12) purified from Pseudomonas acidovorans, is inactivated on aerobic aging or on treatment with K3Fe(CN)6, but regains activity in the presence of reducing agents such as sodium ascorbate. Examination of oxidized, inactive enzyme by electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) spectroscopy has revealed the presence of high spin ferriheme (g = 6.2) and of Cu(II) (g⊥ = 2.065, g∥ = 2.265) in the enzyme.The epr signal of Cu(II) in inactive tryptophan oxygenase is attenuated on the addition of ascorbate, whereas the high spin ferriheme signal is unaffected, indicating that the site of action of reducing agents in activating the enzyme is the enzymic copper. Quantitation of the Cu(II) signal in inactive tryptophan oxygenase by double integration accounts for 45% of the total copper.Addition of l-tryptophan to either inactive or active enzyme produces a decrease of 44 ± 5% of the epr signal of high spin ferriheme and the emergence of the epr signal of a low spin ferriheme (g1, 2, 3 = 2.66, 2.20, 1.81). Disappearance of the high spin ferriheme is hyperbolic (Hill coefficient, n = 1.02) with respect to l-tryptophan concentration, while the appearance of the low spin ferriheme is sigmoidal (Hill coefficient, n = 1.33) with respect to l-tryptophan concentration. The characteristics of the epr signal of this low spin ferriheme are intermediate between those of the signals of the hydroxides of hemoglobin and myoglobin and those in which two histidines are ligated to the ferriheme of hemoglobin. This may be the first example of the observation by epr of an allosteric parameter of an enzyme. 相似文献
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Cristina Costa Miguel Teixeira Jean LeGall José J. G. Moura I. Moura 《Journal of biological inorganic chemistry》1997,2(2):198-208
An air-stable formate dehydrogenase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of formate to CO2, was purified from a sulfate-reducing organism, Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774. The enzyme has a molecular mass of approximately 150?kDa (three different subunits: 88, 29 and 16?kDa) and contains three types of redox-active centers: four c-type hemes, nonheme iron arranged as two [4Fe-4S]2+/1+ centers and a molybdenum-pterin site. Selenium was also chemically detected. The enzyme specific activity is 78 units per mg of protein. Mo(V) EPR signals were observed in the native, reduced and formate-reacted states. EPR signals related to the presence of multiple low-spin hemes were also observed in the oxidized state. Upon reduction, an examination of the EPR data under appropriate conditions distinguishes two types of iron-sulfur centers, an [Fe-S] center I (g max=2.050, g med=1.947, g min=1.896) and an [Fe-S] center II (g max=2.071, g med=1.926, g min=1.865). Mössbauer spectroscopy confirmed the presence of four hemes in the low-spin state. The presence of two [4Fe-4S]2+/1+ centers was confirmed, one of these displaying very small hyperfine coupling constants in the +1 oxidation state. The midpoint redox potentials of the enzyme metal centers were also estimated. 相似文献
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《BBA》1986,849(1):25-31
The Photosystem I electron acceptor complex was characterized by optical flash photolysis and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy after treatment of a subchloroplast particle with lithium dodecyl sulfate (LDS). The following properties were observed after 60 s of incubation with 1% LDS followed by rapid freezing. (i) ESR centers A and B were not observed during or after illumination of the sample at 19 K, although the P-700+ radical at g = 2.0026 showed a large, reversible light-minus-dark difference signal. (ii) Center ‘X’, characterized by g factors of 2.08, 1.88 and 1.78, exhibited reversible photoreduction at 8 K in the absence of reduced centers A and B. (iii) The backreaction kinetics at 8 K between P-700, observed at g = 2.0026, and center X, observed at g = 1.78, was 0.30 s. (iv) The amplitudes of the reversible g = 2.0026 radical observed at 19 K and the 1.2 ms optical 698 nm transient observed at 298 K were diminished to the same extent when treated with 1% LDS at room temperature for periods of 1 and 45 min. We interpret the strict correlation between the properties and lifetimes of the optical P-700+ A−2 reaction pair and the ESR P-700+ center X− reaction pair to indicate that signal A2 and center X represent the same iron-sulfur center in Photosystem I. 相似文献
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E Valensin M L Bianchi Bandinelli M L Di Cairano G Valensin E Gaggelli E Tiezzi 《Biophysical chemistry》1981,14(4):357-362
The water proton spin-lattice relaxation rate (1/T1) was measured in suspensions of erythrocytes adsorbed with the hemagglutinating Echovirus type 11. The observed 1/T1 enhancement, which was displaying a linear dependence on the virus concentration, was taken as a proof that the adsorption phase of the virus-cell interaction accounts, at least partially, for the previously observed phenomena in virus-infected HEp-2 cells. By injecting the Echovirus type 11 into suspensions of erythrocytes doped with Mn2+ or treated with concanavalin A, cylochalasin D and colchicinc. it was suggested that the observed 1/T1 enhancement could be related to modifications of the permeability properties of the red cell membrane, as well as to movements of the cell surface receptors. 相似文献
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The proton and deuterium longitudinal relaxation rates were Studied at room temperature up to the highest protein concentrations in oxyhaemoglobin solutions of different H2O/D2O composition. The deuterium relaxation rates followed the experimentally well known single linear dependence on protein concentration, the slopes being little influenced by solvent (D2O/H2O) composition. The proton ralaxation rates show two different liner dependences on haemoglobin concentration. The entire concentration range is described by two straight lines with the threshold concentration about 11 mM (in haem), The ratio of the slopes is 1.6 (high-to-low Hb-conc.). Only in the higher concentration range two T1's were observed if the solvent contained more than half of D2O. The slow relaxation phase of protons has T1's similar to those measured in solutions with less than half of D2O. The relaxation of the other phase was ten times faster. The ratio of the proton populations in these two phases was equal to 2 (slow-to-fast) and independent of protein concentration. The fast relaxing protons are attributed to water molecules encaged within two or more haemoglobin molecules which associate for times long enough on the PMR time-scale. 相似文献
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Tomoko Ohnishi 《BBA》1975,387(3):475-490
Several iron-sulfur centers in the NADH-ubiquinone segment of the respiratory chain in pigeon heart mitochondria and in submitochondrial particles were analyzed by the combined application of cryogenic EPR (between 30 and 4.2 °K) and potentiometric titration.Center N-1 (iron-sulfur centers associated with NADH dehydrogenase are designated with the prefix “N”) resolves into two single electron titrations with Em 7.2 values of ?380±20 mV and ?240±20 mV (Centers N-1a and N-1b, respectively). Center N-1a exhibits an EPR spectrum of nearly axial symmetry with g// = 2.03, g⊥ = 1.94, while that of Center N-1b shows more apparent rhombic symmetry with gz = 2.03, gy = 1.94 and gx = 1.91. Center N-2 also reveals EPR signals of axial symmetry at g// = 2.05 and g⊥ = 1.93 and its principal signal overlaps with those of Centers N-1a and N-1b. Center N-2 can be easily resolved from N-1a and N-1b because of its high Em 7.2 value (?20±20 mV).Resolution of Centers N-3 and N-4 was achieved potentiometrically in submitochondrial particles. The component with Em 7.2 = ? 240±20 mV is defined as Center N-3 (gz = 2.10, (gy = 1.93?), gx = 1.87); the ?405±20 mV component as Center N-4 (gz = 2.11, (gy = 1.93?), gx = 1.88). At temperatures close to 4.2 °K, EPR signals at g = 2.11, 2.06, 2.03, 1.93, 1.90 and 1.88 titrate with Em 7.2 = ?260±20 mV. The multiplicity of peaks suggests the presence of at least two different ironsulfur centers having similar Em 7.2 values (?260±20 mV); hence, tentatively assigned as N-5 and N-6.Consistent with the individual Em 7.2 values obtained, addition of succinate results in the partial reduction of Center N-2, but does not reduce any other centers in the NADH-ubiquinone segment of the respiratory chain. Centers N-2, N-1b, N-3, N-5 and N-6 become almost completely reduced in the presence of NADH, while Centers N-1a and N-4 are only slightly reduced in pigeon heart submitochondrial particles. In pigeon heart mitochondria, the Em 7.2 of Center N-4 lies much closer to that of Center N-3, so that resolution of the Center N-3 and N-4 spectra is not feasible in mitochondrial preparations. Em 7.2 values and EPR lineshapes for the other ironsulfur centers of the NADH-ubiquinone segment in the respiratory chain of intact mitochondria are similar to those obtained in submitochondrial particle preparations. Thus, it can be concluded that, in intact pigeon heart mitochondria, at least five iron-sulfur centers show Em 7.2 values around -250 mV; Center N-2 exhibits a high Em 7.2 (?20±20 mV), while Center N-1a shows a very low Em 7.2 (?380±20 mV). 相似文献