Journal
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 326, Issue 1, Pages 230-239Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2006.01.039
Keywords
electron transfer; QM-MM simulations; tryptophan; flavin; fluorescence; tyrosine; protein
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Hybrid quantum mechanical-molecular mechanics (dynamics) were performed on flavin reductase (Fre) and flavodoxin reductase (Fdr), both from Escherichia coli. Each was complexed with riboflavin (Rbt) or flavin mononucleotide (FMN). During 50 ps trajectories, the relative energies of the fluorescing state (SI) of the isoalloxazine ring and the lowest charge transfer state (CT) were assessed to aid prediction of fluorescence lifetimes that are shortened due to quenching by electron transfer from tyrosine. The simulations for the four cases display a wide range in CT-S, energy gap caused by the presence of phosphate, other charged and polar residues, water, and by intermolecular separation between donor and acceptor. This suggests that the Gibbs energy change (AGO) and reorganization energy (A) for the electron transfer may differ in different flavoproteins. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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