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Dissection of the triple tryptophan electron transfer chain in Escherichial coli DNA photolyase: Trp382 is the primary donor in photoactivation

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In Escherichia coli photolyase, excitation of the FAD cofactor in its semireduced radical state (FADH*) induces an electron transfer over ≈15 Å from tryptophan W306 to the flavin. It has been suggested that two additional tryptophans are involved in an electron transfer chain FADH* ← W382 ← W359 ← W306. To test this hypothesis, we have mutated W382 into redox inert phenylalanine. Ultrafast transient absorption studies showed that, in WT photolyase, excited FADH* decayed with a time constant τ ≈ 26 ps to fully reduced flavin and a tryptophan cation radical. In W382F mutant photolyase, the excited flavin was much longer lived (τ ≈ 80 ps), and no significant amount of product was detected. We conclude that, in WT photolyase, excited FADH* is quenched by electron transfer from W382. On a millisecond scale, a product state with extremely low yield (≈0.5% of WT) was detected in W382F mutant photolyase. Its spectral and kinetic features were similar to the fully reduced flavin/neutral tryptophan radical state in WT photolyase. We suggest that, in W382F mutant photolyase, excited FADH* is reduced by W359 at a rate that competes only poorly with the intrinsic decay of excited FADH* (τ ≈ 80 ps), explaining the low product yield. Subsequently, the W359 cation radical is reduced by W306. The rate constants of electron transfer from W382 to excited FADH* in WT and from W359 to excited FADH* in W382F mutant photolyase were estimated and related to the donor-acceptor distances.

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hal-00836431 , version 1 (25-06-2013)

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Martin Byrdin, André Eker, Marten H. Vos, Klaus Brettel. Dissection of the triple tryptophan electron transfer chain in Escherichial coli DNA photolyase: Trp382 is the primary donor in photoactivation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003, 100 (15), pp.8676. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1531645100⟩. ⟨hal-00836431⟩
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