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Protein-Induced Excited-State Dynamics of Protochlorophyllide

The light-driven NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) is a key enzyme of chlorophyll biosynthesis in angiosperms. POR’s unique requirement for light to become catalytically active makes the enzyme an attractive model to study the dynamics of enzymatic reactions in real time. Here, we use p...

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Published in:The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory, 2011-07, Vol.115 (27), p.7873-7881
Main Authors: Hanf, Robert, Fey, Sonja, Dietzek, Benjamin, Schmitt, Michael, Reinbothe, Christiane, Reinbothe, Steffen, Hermann, Gudrun, Popp, Jürgen
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Summary:The light-driven NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) is a key enzyme of chlorophyll biosynthesis in angiosperms. POR’s unique requirement for light to become catalytically active makes the enzyme an attractive model to study the dynamics of enzymatic reactions in real time. Here, we use picosecond time-resolved fluorescence and femtosecond pump–probe spectroscopy to examine the influence of the protein environment on the excited-state dynamics of the substrate, protochlorophyllide (PChlide), in the enzyme/substrate (PChlide/POR) and pseudoternary complex including the nucleotide cofactor NADP+ (PChlide/NADP+/ POR). In comparison with the excited-state processes of unbound PChlide, the lifetime of the thermally equilibrated S1 excited state is lengthened from 3.4 to 4.4 and 5.4 ns in the PChlide/POR and PChlide/NADP+/POR complex, whereas the nonradiative rates are decreased by ∼30 and 40%, respectively. This effect is most likely due to the reduced probability of nonradiative decay into the triplet excited state, thus keeping the risk of photosensitized side reactions in the enzyme low. Further, the initial reaction path involves the formation of an intramolecular charge-transfer state (SICT) as an intermediate product. From a strong blue shift in the excited-state absorption, it is concluded that the SICT state is stabilized by local interactions with specific protein sites in the catalytic pocket. The possible relevance of this result for the catalytic reaction in the enzyme POR is discussed.
ISSN:1089-5639
1520-5215
DOI:10.1021/jp2035899