Low-temperature FTIR study of multiple K intermediates in the photocycles of bacteriorhodopsin and xanthorhodopsin.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
Andrei K DioumaevJanos K Lanyi

Abstract

Low-temperature FTIR spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin and xanthorhodopsin was used to elucidate the number of K-like bathochromic states, their sequence, and their contributions to the photoequilibrium mixtures created by illumination at 80-180 K. We conclude that in bacteriorhodopsin the photocycle includes three distinct K-like states in the sequence bR (hv)--> I* --> J --> K(0) --> K(E) --> L --> ..., and similarly in xanthorhodopsin. K(0) is the main fraction in the mixture at 77 K that is formed from J. K(0) becomes thermally unstable above approximately 50 K in both proteins. At 77 K, both J-to-K(0) and K(0)-to-K(E) transitions occur and, contrarily to long-standing belief, cryogenic trapping at 77 K does not produce a pure K state but a mixture of the two states, K(0) and K(E), with contributions from K(E) of approximately 15 and approximately 10% in the two retinal proteins, respectively. Raising the temperature leads to increasing conversion of K(0) to K(E), and the two states coexist (without contamination from non-K-like states) in the 80-140 K range in bacteriorhodopsin, and in the 80-190 K range in xanthorhodopsin. Temperature perturbation experiments in these regions of coexistence revealed that, in spite of the ...Continue Reading

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