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Interaction site for soluble cytochromes on the tetraheme cytochrome subunit bound to the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center mapped by site-directed mutagenesis.
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Biochemistry [Biochemistry] 1998 Aug 25; Vol. 37 (34), pp. 11732-44. - Publication Year :
- 1998
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Abstract
- The crystallographic structure of the Blastochloris (formerly called Rhodopseudomonas) viridis tetraheme cytochrome subunit bound to the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) suggests that all four hemes are located close enough to the surface of the protein to accept electrons from soluble cytochrome c2. To identify experimentally the site of this reaction we prepared site-directed mutants of Rubrivivax gelatinosus RCs with surface charge substitutions in the bound cytochrome subunit and studied the kinetics of their reduction by soluble cytochromes (mitochondrial horse cytochrome c, Blc. viridis cytochrome c2, and Rvi. gelatinosus cytochrome c8). In comparison with the wild-type, the mutants E79K (glutamate-79 substituted by lysine), E93K (glutamate-93 substituted by lysine), and E85K (glutamate-85 substituted by lysine) located near the solvent-exposed edge of low-potential heme 1, the fourth heme from the special pair of bacteriochlorophyll, exhibited decreased second-order rate constants for the reaction between the tetraheme subunit and the soluble cytochromes. Double charge substitutions in this region: E79K/E85K (glutamate-79 and -85 both replaced by lysine) and E93K/E85K (glutamate-93 and -85 both replaced by lysine) appeared to show an additive inhibitory effect. Mutations in other charged regions did not alter the kinetics of electron transfer between bound and soluble cytochromes. In light of the available structural information on Blc. viridis RC, these results indicate that the cluster of acidic residues immediately surrounding the distal heme 1 of the RC-bound tetraheme subunit forms an electrostatically favorable binding site for soluble cytochromes. Thus, all four hemes in the subunit seem to be directly involved in the electron transfer toward the photo-oxidized special pair of bacteriochlorophyll. On the basis of these findings, a model is proposed for the hypothetical cytochrome c2-RC transient complex for Blc. viridis.
- Subjects :
- Amino Acid Substitution genetics
Binding Sites genetics
Cytochromes genetics
Electron Transport
Glutamic Acid genetics
Heme genetics
Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes
Lysine genetics
Models, Molecular
Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins genetics
Protein Binding genetics
Rhodospirillaceae enzymology
Rhodospirillaceae genetics
Solubility
Spectrophotometry
Static Electricity
Bacterial Proteins
Cytochromes metabolism
Cytochromes c
Heme metabolism
Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins metabolism
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0006-2960
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 34
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Biochemistry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9718296
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi980910h