Glu46 donates a proton to the 4-hydroxycinnamate anion chromophore during the photocycle of photoactive yellow protein

Biochemistry
A XieK J Hellingwerf

Abstract

Photoactive yellow protein (PYP) is a photoreceptor containing a unique 4-hydroxycinnamic acid (pCA) chromophore. The trans to cis photoisomerization of this chromophore activates a photocycle involving first a short-lived red-shifted intermediate (pR), then a long-lived blue-shifted intermediate (pB), and finally recovery of the original receptor state (pG). The pCA chromophore is deprotonated in pG and protonated in pB, but the proton donor for this process has not yet been identified. Here we report the first FTIR spectroscopic data on pG, pR, and pB. The IR difference signals in the carbonyl stretching region of COOH groups (1700-1800 cm-1) reveal that a buried carboxylic group close to the chromophore (i) is protonated in pG, (ii) develops a stronger hydrogen bonding in pR, and (iii) becomes deprotonated in pB. These signals are unambiguously assigned to Glu46, on the basis of the IR data and the 1.4 A X-ray structure of PYP [Borgstahl et al. (1995) Biochemistry 34, 6278-6287]. Our data demonstrate that in pR Glu46 remains in hydrogen bonding contact with the negatively charged phenolic oxygen of pCA after chromophore photoisomerization. This strongly implies that the chromophore is isomerized to the 7-cis 9-s-trans confor...Continue Reading

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