The nature of proton-coupled electron transfer in a blue light using flavin domain.
The nature of proton-coupled electron transfer in a blue light using flavin domain.
复制标题
使用黄素域在蓝光下质子耦合电子转移的性质
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2203996119
复制
发表时间:
2022-06-28
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Photoreceptors utilize sunlight to regulate essential biological processes, and their central machinery domains are potential tools for optogenetics. Among them, the blue light using flavin (BLUF) domain achieves photoswitching functionality via a unique two-way proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) mechanism. While the forward PCET has been extensively studied with controversial results, the reverse PCET, the key step to trigger the functional conformation switch, is elusive. Here we unambiguously determine the rates and kinetic isotope effects of both forward and reverse PCET in a BLUF domain using ultrafast spectroscopy. When elucidating the nature of the PCET reactions, our work points out that a nearby Trp needs to be mutated. Our findings will facilitate across-species understanding of the photoactivation mechanism in BLUF domains. Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) is key to the activation of the blue light using flavin (BLUF) domain photoreceptors. Here, to elucidate the photocycle of the central FMN-Gln-Tyr motif in the BLUF domain of OaPAC, we eliminated the intrinsic interfering W90 in the mutant design. We integrated the stretched exponential function into the target analysis to account for the dynamic heterogeneity arising from the active-site solvation relaxation and the flexible H-bonding network as shown in the molecular dynamics simulation results, facilitating a simplified expression of the kinetics model. We find that, in both the functional wild-type (WT) and the nonfunctional Q48E and Q48A, forward PCET happens in the range of 105 ps to 344 ps, with a kinetic isotope effect (KIE) measured to be ∼1.8 to 2.4, suggesting that the nature of the forward PCET is concerted. Remarkably, only WT proceeds with an ultrafast reverse PCET process (31 ps, KIE = 4.0), characterized by an inverted kinetics of the intermediate FMNH˙. Our results reveal that the reverse PCET is driven by proton transfer via an intervening imidic Gln.
登录
查看更多内容
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Domratcheva T;Hartmann E;Schlichting I;Kottke T
通讯作者:
Kottke T
影响因子:
15
作者:
Chang, Chih-Wei;He, Ting-Fang;Guo, Lijun;Stevens, Jeffrey A.;Li, Tanping;Wang, Lijuan;Zhong, Dongping
通讯作者:
Zhong, Dongping
影响因子:
13.9
作者:
Fenno L;Yizhar O;Deisseroth K
通讯作者:
Deisseroth K
影响因子:
62.1
作者:
Dempsey, Jillian L.;Winkler, Jay R.;Gray, Harry B.
通讯作者:
Gray, Harry B.
影响因子:
15
作者:
Goings, Joshua J.;Reinhardt, Clorice R.;Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon
通讯作者:
Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon