Electron transfer reactions of high-potential cytochromes in the reaction centre of Chromatium tepidum |
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Authors: | Drepper Friedel Saito Takayuki Kobayashi Masayuki Nozawa Tsunenori Mathis Paul |
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Affiliation: | (1) Section de Bioénergétique / DBCM, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;(2) Institut für Biologie II / Biochemie, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany;(3) Department of Biochemistry and Engineering, Tohoku University, Aramaki, Aoba, Sendai, 980-77, Japan |
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Abstract: | In the thermophilic purple bacterium C. tepidum, the reaction centre (RC) has a bound cytochrome, containing two high-potential hemes (Em above +350 mV) and two low-potential hemes (Em below +150 mV), which re-reduces the photooxidized primary donor, P+. We have studied the effects of ambient redox potential and of temperature on the kinetics of that reaction by kinetic flash absorption spectroscopy in chromatophores and isolated reaction centers. When both high-potential hemes are reduced prior to excitation by a short flash of light, the halftime increases slightly between 294 K (t1/2 = 500 ns) and 217 K (t1/2 = 1040 ns) indicating an activation energy of 5.0 kJ mol–1. The fraction of P+ which decays by this fast reaction decreases rather steeply around 220 K from nearly 100% at 294 K to nearly 0% below 190 K where P+ decays slowly (t1/2 2.5 ms), probably by return of an electron from the quinone acceptors. When the high-potential hemes are partially oxidized prior to the flash, an additional kinetic phase having a halftime of 30 µs at 294 K is observed. The fractions of RCs that give rise to the individual kinetic phases of P+ reduction have been monitored as a function of redox potential. The results can be interpreted in terms of two high-potential hemes which have similar midpoint potentials of +380 ±10 mV and a weak electrostatic interaction. |
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Keywords: | photosynthetic bacteria redox potential temperature dependence tetraheme cytochromes |
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