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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 131, 期 23, 页码 8134-8140出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja900352t
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With the help of a recent X-ray structure analysis of the hydrophilic part of the bacterial respiratory. complex I, we present a theoretical and numerical study of the charge transfer properties of this protein. Our analysis is based upon an atomistic electronic structure model that accounts for the formation of chemical bonds, spin polarization on transition metal atoms, and solvent polarization effects. Solving this model at the Hartree-Fock mean-field level, we are able to access the energy parameters required to compute charge transfer rates, making use of Marcus's theory of nonadiabatic electron transfer. Besides iron-sulfur clusters, aromatic amino acids are identified as essential centers of localization that participate in the electron transfer process. This novel perspective of charge transfer in complex I is substantiated by a multiple sequence analysis of a broad spectrum of genomes, revealing that the amino acids identified as stepping stones in the electron transfer chain are conserved during the evolution of complex I.
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