Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14493
Keywords
cable bacteria; compartmentalization; electron transfer; Geobacter sulfurreducens; homeostasis; pili; redox reactions; respiration
Funding
- University of Fribourg
- Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials
- Swiss National Science Foundation [178827]
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This review describes the molecular mechanisms of respiratory processes in biological redox reactions that ensure redox homeostasis in a compartmentalized setup. It highlights the progress made in mechanistic studies on long-distance electron transfer through metal-free peptides and proteins.
Biological redox reactions often use a set-up in which final redox partners are localized in different compartments and electron transfer (ET) among them is mediated by redox-active molecules. In enzymes, these ET processes occur over nm distances, whereas multi-protein filaments bridge mu m ranges. Electrons are transported over cm ranges in cable bacteria, which are formed by thousands of cells. In this review, we describe molecular mechanisms that explain how respiration in a compartmentalized set-up ensures redox homeostasis. We highlight mechanistic studies on ET through metal-free peptides and proteins demonstrating that long-distance ET is possible because amino acids Tyr, Trp, Phe, and Met can act as relay stations. This cuts one long ET into several short reaction steps. The chances and challenges of long-distance ET for cellular redox reactions are then discussed.
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