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Reduction of ferricytochrome c by hydrogen atoms: Evidence for intramolecular transfer of reducing equivalent
Authors:Norman N. Lichtin   Avigdor Shafferman  Gabriel Stein
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Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Abstract:Direct evidence obtained by means of the technique of pulse radiolysis-kinetic spectrometry, with measurements in the time range 10−6 to 1 s, is presented that, consequent upon reaction of a single H-atom with a single molecule of ferricytochrome c, a reducing equivalent is transmitted via the protein structure to the ferriheme moiety. Such transmission accounts for at least 70% of the total reduction of the ferri to the ferro state of cytochrome c. The remainder of the total reduction takes place without stages resolvable on the time scale of these experiments. Reduction brought about by H atoms appears to follow a different course than reduction by hydrated electrons. In the latter case, intramolecular transmission of reducing equivalents could not be demonstrated (Lichtin, N. N., Shafferman, A. and Stein, G. (1973) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 314, 117–135).

Not every H-atom reacts with ferricytochrome c at a site which results in conversion of the Fe(III) state to the Fe(II) state. Approximately half of reacting H-atoms do not produce reduction.

The following second order rate constants have been determined in solutions of low ionic strength at 20±2 °C: k[H+ferricytochrome c] = (1.0±0.2) · 1010 M−1 · s−1 at pH 3.0 and 6.7; k[H+ferrocytochrome c] = (1.3±0.2) · 1010 M−1 · s−1 at pH 3.0; k[eaq + ferrocytochrome c] = (1.9±0.4) · 1010 M−1 · s−1 at pH 6.7.

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