Structural requirements of quinone coenzymes for endogenous and dye-mediated coupled electron transport in bacterial photosynthesis
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
- Vol. 12 (3-4), 95-110
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00744677
Abstract
Electron transport in continuous light has been investigated in chromatophores ofRhodopseudomonas capsulata, Ala pho+, depleted in ubiquinone-10 and subsequently reconstituted with various ubiquinone homologs and analogs. In addition the restoration of electron transport in depleted chromatophores by the artificial redox compoundsN-methylphenazonium methosulfate andN,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine was studied. The following pattern of activities was obtained: (1) Reconstitution of cyclic photophosphorylation with ubiquinone-10 was saturated at about 40 ubiquinone molecules per reaction center. (2) Reconstitution by ubiquinone homologs was dependent on the length of the isoprenoid side chain and the amount of residual ubiquinone in the extracted chromatophores. If two or more molecules of ubiquinone-10 per reaction center were retained, all homologs with a side chain longer than two isoprene units were as active as ubiquinone-10 in reconstitution, and the double bonds in the side chain were not required. If less than two molecules per reaction center remained, an unsaturated side chain longer than five units was necessary for full activity. Plastoquinone, α-tocopherol, and naphthoquinones of the vitamin K series were relatively inactive in both cases. (3) All ubiquinone homologs, also ubiquinone-1 and -2, could be reduced equally well by the photosynthetic reaction center, as measured by light-induced proton binding in the presence of antimycin A and uncoupler. Plastoquinone was found to be a poor electron acceptor. (4) Photophosphorylation could be reconstituted byN-methylphenazonium methosulfate as well as byN,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine in an antimycin-insensitive way, if more than two ubiquinones per reaction center remained. These compounds were active also in more extensively extracted particles reconstituted with ubiquinone-1, which itself was inactive.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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