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Characterization of Light-Induced, Short-Lived Interacting Radicals in the Active Site of Flavoprotein Ferredoxin-NADP + Oxidoreductase

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Radicals of flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), as well as tyrosine and tryptophan, are widely involved as key reactive intermediates during electron transfer (ET) reactions in flavoproteins. Due to the high reactivity of these species, and their corresponding short lifetime, characterization of these intermediates in functional processes of flavoproteins is usually challenging, but can be achieved by ultrafast spectroscopic studies of light-activatable flavoproteins. In ferredoxin-NADP + oxidoreductase from Bacillus subtilis (BsFNR), fluorescence of the FAD cofactor that very closely interacts with a neighboring tyrosine residue (Tyr50), is strongly quenched. Here we study short-lived photoproducts of this enzyme and its variants with Tyr50 replaced by tryptophan or glycine. Using time-resolved fluorescence and absorption spectroscopies, we show that upon the excitation of WT BsFNR, ultrafast ET from Tyr50 to the excited FAD cofactor occurs in ~260 fs, an order of magnitude faster than the decay by charge recombination, facilitating the characterization of the reaction intermediates in the charge-separated state with respect to other recently studied systems. These studies are corroborated by experiments on the Y50W mutant protein, which yield photoproducts qualitatively similar to those observed in other tryptophan bearing flavoproteins. By combining the experimental results with molecular dynamics simulations and quantum mechanics calculations, we investigate in detail the effect of protein environment and relaxations on the spectral properties of those radical intermediates, and demonstrate that the spectral features of radical anionic FAD are highly sensitive to its environment, and in particular to the dynamics and nature of the counter-ions formed in the photoproducts. Altogether, comprehensive characterizations are provided for important radical intermediates that are generally involved in functional processes of flavoproteins.
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hal-03154805 , version 1 (01-03-2021)

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Bo Zhuang, Daisuke Seo, Alexey Aleksandrov, Marten H. Vos. Characterization of Light-Induced, Short-Lived Interacting Radicals in the Active Site of Flavoprotein Ferredoxin-NADP + Oxidoreductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143 (7), pp.2757-2768. ⟨10.1021/jacs.0c09627⟩. ⟨hal-03154805⟩
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