Energy Transfer between Flavin and Cytochrome c
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Macromolecular Science: Part A - Chemistry
- Vol. 26 (2-3), 445-454
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00222338908051986
Abstract
Energy transfer between photoexcited flavin and cytochrome c has been investigated in order to estimate intermolecular forces between flavin and cytochrome c. The quenching of the fluorescence of flavin by cytochrome c excited at 372 nm was found to be much greater than that excited at 465 nm. This dependence of the quenching on the exciting wavelength is considered to be due to the “prerelaxational” fast energy transfer. From the analysis of the quenching of the fluorescence of FMN and lumiflavin by cytochrome c excited at 465 nm, it was concluded that 1) the quenching is mainly controlled by resonance energy transfer, and 2) the heterogeneous dispersion state of molecules due to electrostatic forces makes the critical transfer distance, R 0, of the resonance process longer than the real distance. For the quenching of the fluorescence of flavodoxin by cytochrome c, it was found that complex formation is a dominant process and is controlled to a great extent by electrostatic forces. Furthermore, fluorescence decay curves were measured by a single-photon counting method in order to estimate the dynamic processes of flavin fluorescence. The results also showed that the resonance process exists in the energy transfer between flavin and cytochrome c.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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