Cytochromes c': biological models for the S = 3/2, 5/2 spin-state admixture?
Cytochromes c': biological models for the S = 3/2, 5/2 spin-state admixture?
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细胞色素 c:S = 3/2、5/2 自旋态混合物的生物模型?
DOI:
10.1021/cr040416l
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发表时间:
2006
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影响因子:
62.1
通讯作者:
Terner,James
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作者:
Weiss,Raymond;Gold,Avram;Terner,James
The electronic ground state of most known ferric heme proteins is either low-spin (S) 1/2) or high-spin (S) 5/2). However, a small number of these proteins do not conform to this regime. This group includes the bacterial ferricytochromes c′(earlier known as RHP, cytochromoids c, cytochromes cc′), 1-4 whose magnetic properties have been the subject of debate. In the earliest investigations, magnetic moments of 5.1 and 4.9 µB were deduced from solution magnetic susceptibility measurements made at physiological pH and room temperature for the ferricytochromes c′ isolated from the Rhodospirillum rubrum (Rs. rubrum), Chromatium Vinosum (Ch. Vinosum), and Rhodopseudomonas palustris (Rp. palustris) bacteria. 5 Between 1.4 and 4.2 K, the magnetic moment of the ferricytochrome c′ from Ch. Vinosum was determined to be 3.4 µB by magnetic susceptibility measurements. 6 The unusual magnetic properties led Ehrenberg and Kamen5 to propose that the electronic structure could be described by a low-spin (S) 1/2)/high-spin (S) 5/2) thermal equilibrium. Maltempo et al. 6-8 subsequently proposed a ground state in which the unperturbed mid-spin (S) 3/2) and high-spin (S) 5/2) states are quantum mechanically admixed. Further studies have indicated that magnetic properties vary among the ferricytochromes c′ isolated from different bacteria. Based largely on EPR spectroscopy, these proteins appear to be comprised of two groups. The first