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Cryoradiolytic reduction of crystalline heme proteins: analysis by UV-Vis spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

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Kühnel,  K.
Department of Neurobiology, MPI for biophysical chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Beitlich, T., Kühnel, K., Schulze-Briese, C., Shoeman, R. L., & Schlichting, I. (2007). Cryoradiolytic reduction of crystalline heme proteins: analysis by UV-Vis spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 14(1), 11-23. doi:10.1107/S0909049506049806.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0018-0B27-3
Abstract
The X-ray crystallographic analysis of redox-active systems may be complicated by photoreduction. Although radiolytic reduction by the probing X-ray beam may be exploited to generate otherwise short-lived reaction intermediates of metalloproteins, it is generally an undesired feature. Here, the X-ray-induced reduction of the three heme proteins myoglobin, cytochrome P450cam and chloroperoxidase has been followed by on-line UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. All three systems showed a very rapid reduction of the heme iron. In chloroperoxidase the change of the ionization state from ferric to ferrous heme is associated with a movement of the heme-coordinating water molecule. The influence of the energy of the incident X-ray photons and of the presence of scavengers on the apparent reduction rate of ferric myoglobin crystals was analyzed.