The electron transfer (ET) properties of two types of high-valent hemes were studied within the same protein matrix; the bis-FeIV state of MauG and the Compound I state of Y294H MauG. The latter is formed as a consequence of mutation of the tyrosine which forms the distal axial ligand of the six-coordinate heme that allows it to stabilize FeIV in the absence of an external ligand. The rates of the ET reaction of each high-valent species with the type I copper protein, amicyanin, were determined at different temperatures and analysed by ET theory. The reaction with bis-FeIV wild-type (WT) MauG exhibited a reorganization energy (λ) that was 0.39 eV greater than that for the reaction of Compound I Y295H MauG. It is concluded that the delocalization of charge over the two hemes in the bis-FeIV state is responsible for the larger λ, relative to the Compound I state in which the FeV equivalent is isolated on one heme. Although the increase in λ decreases the rate of ET, the delocalization of charge decreases the ET distance to its natural substrate protein, thus increasing the ET rate. This describes how proteins can balance different ET properties of complex redox cofactors to optimize each system for its particular ET or catalytic reaction.
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December 09 2015
Converting the bis-FeIV state of the diheme enzyme MauG to Compound I decreases the reorganization energy for electron transfer
Brian A. Dow;
Brian A. Dow
*Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32827, U.S.A.
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Victor L. Davidson
Victor L. Davidson
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*Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32827, U.S.A.
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Received:
September 16 2015
Revision Received:
October 20 2015
Accepted:
October 22 2015
Accepted Manuscript online:
October 22 2015
Online ISSN: 1470-8728
Print ISSN: 0264-6021
© 2016 Authors; published by Portland Press Limited
2016
Biochem J (2016) 473 (1): 67–72.
Article history
Received:
September 16 2015
Revision Received:
October 20 2015
Accepted:
October 22 2015
Accepted Manuscript online:
October 22 2015
Citation
Brian A. Dow, Victor L. Davidson; Converting the bis-FeIV state of the diheme enzyme MauG to Compound I decreases the reorganization energy for electron transfer. Biochem J 1 January 2016; 473 (1): 67–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20150998
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