Kinetic studies on the reaction center protein from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides: the temperature and free energy dependence of electron transfer between various quinones in the Q/sub A/ site and the oxidized bacteriochlorophyll dimer
The temperature and free energy dependence of electron transfer from the primary semiquinone (Q/sub A/sup .-/) to the oxidized bacteriochlorophyll dimer ((BChl)/sub 2//sup .+/ have been measured in the reaction center protein from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides in which the native Q/sub A/, ubiquinone-10, has been removed and replaced by one of 11 substituted 9,10-anthraquinones, seven 1,4-naphthoquinones, 1,2-naphthoquinone, or five 1,4-benzoquinones. For 19 of these quinones an in situ midpoint potential value at 295 K for the Q/sub A//Q/sub A//sup .-/ couple was available providing a series of reaction center proteins with a variation of reaction -..delta..G/sup 0/ from 0.49 to 0.81 eV. The E/sub 1/2/ values for the remaining Q/sub As/ were estimated from measurements on quinones in solution, extending the reaction -..delta..G/sup 0/ range from 0.11 to 0.94 eV. The rates of intraprotein electron transfer from the various Q/sub A//sup .-/ molecules to (BChl)/sub 2//sup .+/ were found to be virtually independent of temperature from 5 to 100 K and, where measured, to decrease severalfold from 100 to 300k, a pattern well-known for native reaction center protein. Preliminary attempts have been made to model the observed dependence of the electron-transfer rate on the -..delta..G/sup 0/ and temperature in terms of current theories that describe electron-transfer reactions as nonadiabatic, multiphonon, nonradiative decay processes.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-80ER10590
- OSTI ID:
- 5398494
- Journal Information:
- J. Phys. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 90:16
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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FREE ENERGY
PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA
QUINONES
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