title: On the energetics of conformational changes and pH dependent redox behaviour of electron transfer proteins.
abstract: Calculations of the electrostatic interaction energies for four metalloproteins that carry out electron transfer are reported. Each protein has a pH dependent redox potential from which the measured electrostatic interaction energy is obtained. The calculations were made using the X-ray structure coordinates and a semimacroscopic model of the interactions. For cytochrome c-551 and HIPIP the calculated and observed interaction energies were found to be approximately the same, in agreement with the fact that significant conformational changes do not accompany the ionisations. For cytochrome c2 and azurin, however, major differences were found between the calculated and observed values. These are accounted for primarily by the occurrence of significant conformational changes accompanying the ionisations. The reorganisation energies for these conformational changes are approximately 7.0 and approximately 11.1 kJ.mol-1, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Zoology, Oxford, England.
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D001400:Azurin / Q000378:metabolism; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003574:Cytochrome c Group / Q000378:metabolism; D045362:Cytochromes c2; D004579:Electron Transport; D004735:Energy Transfer; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008667:Metalloproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003574:Cytochrome c Group; D008667:Metalloproteins; D001400:Azurin; D045362:Cytochromes c2; C017167:cytochrome C(551)