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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 124, Issue 40, Pages 8750-8760Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05718
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- National Science Foundation [CHE1807865, DMR1808288]
- Max Planck Society
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Priority Programme Iron-Sulfur for Life: Cooperative Function of Iron-Sulfur Centers in Assembly, Biosynthesis, Catalysis and Disease (SPP 1927) Project [BI 2198/1-1]
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Oxidoreductase enzymes often perform technologically useful chemical transformations using abundant metal cofactors with high efficiency under ambient conditions. The understanding of the catalytic mechanism of these enzymes is, however, highly dependent on the availability of well-characterized and optimized time-resolved analytical techniques. We have developed an approach for rapidly injecting electrons into a catalytic system using a photoactivated nanomaterial in combination with a range of redox mediators to produce a potential jump in solution, which then initiates turnover via electron transfer (ET) to the catalyst. The ET events at the nanomaterial-mediatorcatalyst interfaces are, however, highly sensitive to the experimental conditions such as photon flux, relative concentrations of system components, and pH. Here, we present a systematic optimization of these experimental parameters for a specific catalytic system, namely, [FeFe] hydrogenase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CrHydAl). The developed strategies can, however, be applied in the study of a wide variety of oxidoreductase enzymes. Our potential jump system consists of CdSe/CdS core-shell nanorods as a photosensitizer and a series of substituted bipyridinium salts as mediators with redox potentials in the range from -550 to -670 mV (vs SHE). With these components, we screened the effect of pH, mediator concentration, protein concentration, photosensitizer concentration, and photon flux on steady-state photoreduction and hydrogen production as well as ET and potential jump efficiency. By manipulating these experimental conditions, we show the potential of simple modifications to improve the tunability of the potential jump for application to study oxidoreductases.
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