title: Distance-independent charge recombination kinetics in cytochrome c-cytochrome c peroxidase complexes: compensating changes in the electronic coupling and reorganization energies.
abstract: Charge recombination rate constants vary no more than 3-fold for interprotein ET in the Zn-substituted wild type (WT) cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP):cytochrome c (Cc) complex and in complexes with four mutants of the Cc protein (i.e., F82S, F82W, F82Y, and F82I), despite large differences in the ET distance. Theoretical analysis indicates that charge recombination for all complexes involves a combination of tunneling and hopping via Trp191. For three of the five structures (WT and F82S(W)), the protein favors hopping more than that in the other two structures that have longer heme → ZnP distances (F82Y(I)). Experimentally observed biexponential ET kinetics is explained by the complex locking in alternative coupling pathways, where the acceptor hole state is either primarily localized on ZnP (slow phase) or on Trp191 (fast phase). The large conformational differences between the CcP:Cc interface for the F82Y(I) mutants compared to that the WT and F82S(W) complexes are predicted to change the reorganization energies for the CcP:Cc ET reactions because of changes in solvent exposure and interprotein ET distances. Since the recombination reaction is likely to occur in the inverted Marcus regime, an increased reorganization energy compensates the decreased role for hopping recombination (and the longer transfer distance) in the F82Y(I) mutants. Taken together, coupling pathway and reorganization energy effects for the five protein complexes explain the observed insensitivity of recombination kinetics to donor-acceptor distance and docking pose and also reveals how hopping through aromatic residues can accelerate long-range ET.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Aleksey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuznetsov
authors.forename: Judith M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Nocek
authors.forename: Brian M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Hoffman
authors.forename: Brian R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Crane
authors.forename: Xiangqian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: David N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Beratan
mesh_terms: D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D045304:Cytochromes c / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004579:Electron Transport; D004583:Electrons; D006418:Heme / Q000737:chemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry; D013816:Thermodynamics; D015032:Zinc / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D012997:Solvents; D006418:Heme; D045304:Cytochromes c; D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase; D015032:Zinc
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