Effects of soluble flavin on heterogeneous electron transfer between surface-exposed bacterial cytochromes and iron oxides
Effects of soluble flavin on heterogeneous electron transfer between surface-exposed bacterial cytochromes and iron oxides
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10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.039
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发表时间:
2015-08-15
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5
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Zachara, John M.
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作者:
Wang, Zheming;Shi, Zhi;Zachara, John M.
Dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria can utilize insoluble Fe(Mn)-oxides as a terminal electron acceptor under anaerobic conditions. For Shewanella species specifically, evidence suggests that iron reduction is associated with the secretion of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and riboflavin. However, the exact mechanism of flavin involvement is unclear; while some indicate that flavins mediate electron transfer (Marsili et al., 2008), others point to flavin serving as co-factors to outer membrane proteins (Okamoto et al., 2013). In this work, we used methyl viologen (MV center dot+)-encapsulated, porin-cytochrome complex (MtrCAB) embedded liposomes (MELs) as a synthetic model of the Shewanella outer membrane to investigate the proposed mediating behavior of microbially produced flavins. The reduction kinetics of goethite, hematite and lepidocrocite (200 mu M) by MELs ([ MV center dot+] similar to 40 mu M and MtrABC goethite, the same as their reduction potentials, implying thermodynamic control on reaction rate. For LEP, with the highest reduction potential among the three Fe(III)-oxides, its reduction by FMNH2 was completed in less than 10 min, suggesting that FMN was capable of mediating electron transfer to LEP. At higher FMN concentrations (>1 mu M), the reaction rates for both steps decreased and varied inversely with FMN concentration, indicating that FMN inhibited the MEL to Fe(III)-oxide electron transfer reaction under these conditions. The implications of the observed kinetic behaviors to flavin-mediated Fe(III)-oxide reduction in natural environments are discussed. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.