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Title: High Yield of B-Side Electron Transfer at 77 K in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center Protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Journal Article · · Journal of Physical Chemistry. B

In this work, the primary electron transfer (ET) processes at 295 K and 77 K are compared for the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center (RC) pigment-protein complex from thirteen mutants including a wild-type control. The engineered RCs bear mutations in the L and M polypeptides that largely inhibit ET from the excited state P* of the primary electron donor (P, a bacteriochlorophyll dimer) to the normally photoactive A-side cofactors and enhance ET to the C2-symmetry related, and normally photoinactive, B-side cofactors. P* decay is multi-exponential at both temperatures and modeled as arising from subpopulations that differ in contributions of two-step ET (e.g., P* → P+BB → P+HB), one-step superexchange ET (e.g., P* → P+HB) and P* → ground state. [HB and BB are monomeric bacteriopheophytin and bacteriochlorophyll, respectively.] The relative abundances of the subpopulations and the inherent rate constants of the P* decay routes vary with temperature. Regardless, ET to produce P+HB is generally faster at 77 K than at 295 K by about a factor of two. A key finding is that the yield of P+HB, which ranges from ~5% to ~90% among the mutant RCs, is essentially the same at 77 K as at 295 K in each case. Overall, the results show that ET from P* to the B-side cofactors in these mutants does not require thermal activation and involves combinations of ET mechanisms analogous to those operative on the A side in the native RC.

Research Organization:
Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0002036; AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1905538
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1991599
Journal Information:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, Vol. 126, Issue 44; ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher:
American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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