Ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics of short-range protein electron transfer in flavodoxin
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Jie Yang, Yifei Zhang, Ting-Fang He, Yangyi Lu, Lijuan Wang, Bei Ding
Short-range protein electron transfer (ET) is ubiquitous in biology and is often observed in photosynthesis, photoreceptors and photoenzymes. These ET processes occur on an ultrafast timescale from femtoseconds to picoseconds at a short donor–acceptor distance within 10 Å, and thus couple with local environmental fluctuations. Here, we use oxidized Anabaena flavodoxin as a model system and have systematically studied the photoinduced redox cycle of the wild type and seven mutant proteins by femtosecond spectroscopy. We observed a series of ultrafast dynamics from the initial charge separation in 100–200 fs, subsequent charge recombination in 1–2 ps and final vibrational cooling process of the products in 3–6 ps. We further characterized the active-site solvation and observed the relaxations in 1–200 ps, indicating a nonergodic ET dynamics. With our new ET model, we uncovered a minor outer (solvent) reorganization energy and a large inner (donor and acceptor) reorganization energy, suggesting a frozen active site in the initial ultrafast ET while the back ET couples with the environment relaxations. The vibronically coupled back ET dynamics was first reported in D. vulgaris flavodoxin and here is observed in Anabaena flavodoxin again, completely due to the faster ET dynamics than the cooling relaxations. We also compared the two flavodoxin structures, revealing a stronger coupling with the donor tyrosine in Anabaena. All ultrafast ET dynamics are from the large donor–acceptor couplings and the minor activation barriers due to the reaction free energies being close to the inner reorganization energies. These observations should be general to many redox reactions in flavoproteins.
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