PMID: 2112901Jul 1, 1990Paper

Redox and spectral properties of flavodoxin from Anabaena 7120

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
K E PaulsenJ L Markley

Abstract

We report here on the spectrophotometric and electrochemical properties of the flavodoxin from Anabaena 7120 and compare these properties with those of flavodoxins that have been studied previously. Molar absorption coefficients have been determined for all three oxidation states of this protein, at various wavelengths. For oxidized flavodoxin, molar absorption coefficients for the absorption maxima at 464 and 373 nm were 9200 and 8500 M-1 cm-1, respectively. Reduction by the first electron produced a neutral blue semiquinone which exhibited an absorption maximum at 575 nm. The molar absorption coefficients at 575 nm were 200 M-1 cm-1 for the oxidized form, 5100 M-1 cm-1 for the semiquinone form, and 250 M-1 cm-1 for the hydroquinone form. Redox potentials have been determined, in the pH range of 6.0 to 8.5, for both electron transfers. At pH 7.0, the midpoint potential values for the first and second electron transfers were -0.196 and -0.425 V, respectively. We determined that the first electron transfer is pH dependent and that a proton transfer accompanies this one electron transfer. It was also determined that the second electron transfer is pH independent in the pH range of 6.0 to 8.5.

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