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Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine in a Tyrosine-Ruthenium-tris-Bipyridine Complex: Comparison with TyrosineZ Oxidation in Photosystem II

Sjödin, Martin ; Styring, Stenbjörn LU ; Åkermark, Björn ; Sun, Licheng and Hammarström, Leif (2000) In Journal of the American Chemical Society 122(16). p.3932-3936
Abstract
The pH- and the temperature dependence of the rate constant for electron transfer from tyrosine to ruthenium in Ru(II)(bpy)2(4-Me-4'CONH-L-tyrosine etyl ester-2,2'-bpy) 2PF6 was investigated using flash photolysis. At a pH below the tyrosine pKa 10 the rate constant increased monotonically with pH. This increase was consistent with a concerted electron transfer/deprotonation mechanism. Also indicative of a concerted reaction was the unusually high reorganization energy, 2 eV, extracted from temperature-dependent measurements. Deprotonation of the tyrosine group, at pH > pKa, resulted in a 100-fold increase in rate constant due to a decreased reorganization energy, λ = 0.9 eV. Also, the rate constant became independent of pH. In... (More)
The pH- and the temperature dependence of the rate constant for electron transfer from tyrosine to ruthenium in Ru(II)(bpy)2(4-Me-4'CONH-L-tyrosine etyl ester-2,2'-bpy) 2PF6 was investigated using flash photolysis. At a pH below the tyrosine pKa 10 the rate constant increased monotonically with pH. This increase was consistent with a concerted electron transfer/deprotonation mechanism. Also indicative of a concerted reaction was the unusually high reorganization energy, 2 eV, extracted from temperature-dependent measurements. Deprotonation of the tyrosine group, at pH > pKa, resulted in a 100-fold increase in rate constant due to a decreased reorganization energy, λ = 0.9 eV. Also, the rate constant became independent of pH. In Mn-depleted photosystem II a similar pH dependence has been found for electron transfer from tyrosineZ (TyrZ) to the oxidized primary donor P680+. On the basis of the kinetic similarities we propose that the mechanisms in the two systems are the same, that is, the electron transfer occurs as a concerted proton-coupled electron-transfer reaction, and at pH < 7 the TyrZ proton is released directly to the bulk water. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{The pH- and the temperature dependence of the rate constant for electron transfer from tyrosine to ruthenium in Ru(II)(bpy)2(4-Me-4'CONH-L-tyrosine etyl ester-2,2'-bpy) 2PF6 was investigated using flash photolysis. At a pH below the tyrosine pKa 10 the rate constant increased monotonically with pH. This increase was consistent with a concerted electron transfer/deprotonation mechanism. Also indicative of a concerted reaction was the unusually high reorganization energy, 2 eV, extracted from temperature-dependent measurements. Deprotonation of the tyrosine group, at pH &gt; pKa, resulted in a 100-fold increase in rate constant due to a decreased reorganization energy, λ = 0.9 eV. Also, the rate constant became independent of pH. In Mn-depleted photosystem II a similar pH dependence has been found for electron transfer from tyrosineZ (TyrZ) to the oxidized primary donor P680+. On the basis of the kinetic similarities we propose that the mechanisms in the two systems are the same, that is, the electron transfer occurs as a concerted proton-coupled electron-transfer reaction, and at pH &lt; 7 the TyrZ proton is released directly to the bulk water.}},
  author       = {{Sjödin, Martin and Styring, Stenbjörn and Åkermark, Björn and Sun, Licheng and Hammarström, Leif}},
  issn         = {{1520-5126}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{16}},
  pages        = {{3932--3936}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Journal of the American Chemical Society}},
  title        = {{Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine in a Tyrosine-Ruthenium-tris-Bipyridine Complex: Comparison with TyrosineZ Oxidation in Photosystem II}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja993044k}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/ja993044k}},
  volume       = {{122}},
  year         = {{2000}},
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