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Mössbauer spectroscopy on the reaction center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis

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Fritzsch,  Günter
Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Sinning,  Irmgard Maria
Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Michel,  Hartmut       
Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Frolov, E. N., Birk, A., Fritzsch, G., Sinning, I. M., Michel, H., Goldanskii, V. I., et al. (1991). Mössbauer spectroscopy on the reaction center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Hyperfine Interactions, 68(1), 59-69. doi:10.1007/BF02396452.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-1D7E-D
Abstract
Proteins called “reaction centers” (RC) can be isolated from many photosynthetic bacteria. They have one non-heme iron in a quinone acceptor region. The RC of Rhodopseudomonas viridis contains an additional tightly bound tetra-heme cytochrome c subunit. The electronic configuration of both cytochrome and the non-heme iron has been studied in the crystallized protein by Mössbauer spectroscopy at different redox potentials, pH-values, and with an addition of o-phenanthroline. At high potentials (Eh=+500mV) all heme irons are in the low spin Fe3+-state, and at low potential (Eh=−150mV) they are low spin Fe2+ with the same Mössbauer parameters for all hemes independent of pH. Redox titrations change the relative area of the reduced and oxidized states in agreement with other methods. The non-heme iron shows a high spin Fe2+ configuration independent of Eh and pH with parameters comparable to those of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Surprisingly, there is strong evidence for another non-heme iron species in part of the molecules with a Fe2+ low spin configuration. Incubation with o-phenanthroline decreases the relative Fe2+ hs-area and increases the contribution of Fe2+ ls-area. Above 210K the mean square displacement, [x2], of the RC-crystals increases more than linearly with temperature. This may be correlated with the increase of the electron transfer rate and indicates that intramolecular mobility influences the functional activity of a protein.