Investigation of the calcium-binding site of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II using 87Sr ESEEM spectroscopy.
Investigation of the calcium-binding site of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II using 87Sr ESEEM spectroscopy.
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使用 87Sr ESEEM 光谱研究光系统 II 的放氧复合物的钙结合位点。
DOI:
10.1021/ja030614e
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发表时间:
2004
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Britt,RDavid
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Kim,SunHee;Gregor,Wolfgang;Peloquin,JeffreyM;Brynda,Marcin;Britt,RDavid
The proximity of the calcium/strontium binding site of the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII) to the paramagnetic Mn cluster is explored with87Sr three-pulse electron spin−echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy. CW-EPR spectra of Sr2+-substituted Ca2+-depleted PSII membranes show the modifiedg= 2 multiline EPR signal as previously reported. We performed three-pulse ESEEM on this modified multiline signal of the Mn cluster using natural abundance Sr and87Sr, respectively. Three-pulse ESEEM of the natural abundance Sr sample exhibits no detectable modulation by the 7% abundance87Sr. On the other hand, that of the87Sr enriched (93%) sample clearly reveals modulation arising from theI=9/287Sr nucleus weakly magnetically coupled to the Mn cluster. Using a simple point dipole approximation for the electron spin, analysis of the87Sr ESEEM modulation depth via an analytic expression suggests a Mn−Ca (Sr) distance of 4.5 Å. Simulation of three-pulse ESEEM with a numerical matrix diagonalization procedure gave good agreement with this analytical result. A more appropriate tetranuclear magnetic/structural model for the Mn cluster converts the 4.5 Å point dipole distance to a 3.8−5.0 Å range of distances. DFT calculations of43Ca and87Sr quadrupolar interactions on Ca (and Sr substituted) binding sites in various proteins suggest that the lack of the nuclear quadrupole induced splitting in the ESEEM spectrum of87Sr enriched PSII samples is related to a very high degree of symmetry of the ligands surrounding the Sr2+ion in the substituted Ca site. Numerical simulations show that moderate87Sr quadrupolar couplings decrease the envelope modulation relative to the zero quadrupole case, and therefore we consider that the 3.8−5.0 Å range obtained without quadrupolar coupling included in the simulation represents an upper limit to the actual manganese−calcium distance. This87Sr pulsed EPR spectroscopy provides independent direct evidence that the calcium/strontium binding site is close to the Mn cluster in the OEC of PSII.