Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Green Fluorescent Protein Bearing a Genetically Encoded Electron Acceptor

分类： 生物学 >> 生物物理学 提交时间： 2016-05-11

Lv, Xiaoxuan Hu, Cheng Gao, Feng Li, Jiasong Liu, Xiaohong Deng, Kai Zheng, Peng Gong, Weimin Wang, Jiangyun Lv, Xiaoxuan Hu, Cheng Gao, Feng Li, Jiasong Liu, Xiaohong Deng, Kai Zheng, Peng Gong, Weimin Wang, Jiangyun Zhou, Meng Xia, Andong

摘要： Electron transfer (ET) is widely used for driving the processes that underlie the chemistry of life. However, our abilities to probe electron transfer mechanisms in proteins and design redox enzymes are limited, due to :the lack of methods to site-specifically insert electron acceptors into proteins in vivo. Here we describe the synthesis and genetic incorporation of 4-fluoro-3-nitrophenylalanine (FNO(2)Phe), which has similar reduction potentials to NAD(P)H and ferredoxin, the most important biological reductants. Through the genetic incorporation of FNO2Phe into green fluorescent:protein (GFP) and femtosecond transient absorption measurement, we show that photoinduced electron transfer (PET) from the GFP chromophore to FNO2Phe occurs very fast (within 11 ps), which is comparable to that of the first electron transfer step in photosystem I, from P700* to A(0). This genetically encoded, low-reduction potential unnatural amino acid (UAA) can significantly in-Trove our ability to investigate electron transfer mechanisms in complex reductases and facilitate the design of miniature proteins that mimic their functions.

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