Electron transfer between flavodoxin semiquinone and c-type cytochromes: correlations between electrostatically corrected rate constants, redox potentials, and surface topologies
- 18 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 23 (26), 6345-6349
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00321a009
Abstract
The ionic strength dependence of the rate constants for electron transfer from the semiquinone of Clostridium pasteurianum flavodoxin to 12 c-type cytochromes and several inorganic oxidants was measured using stopped-flow methodology. The experimental data were fit quite well by an electrostatic model that represents the interaction domains as parallel discs with a point charge equal to the charge within this region of the protein. The analysis provides an evaluation of the electrostatic interaction energy and the rate constant at infinite ionic strength (k.infin.). The electrostatic charge on the oxidant within the interaction site can be obtained from the electrostatic energy, and for most of those reactants for which structures are available, the results are in good agreement with expectation. The k.infin. values correlated with redox potential differences, as expected from the theory of adiabatic (or nonadiabatic) outer-sphere electron-transfer reactions. Deviations from the theoretical curves are interpreted in terms of the influence of surface topology on reaction rate constants. In general, electrostatic effects, steric influences and redox potential all exert a much larger effect on reaction rate constants for the flavodoxin-cytochrome system than was previously observed for free flavin-cytochrome interactions. The implications of this for determining biological specificity are discussed.Keywords
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