On the absorbance changes in the photocycle of the photoactive yellow protein: A quantum-chemical analysis
AUTOR(ES)
Molina, Vicent
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Spectral changes in the photocycle of the photoactive yellow protein (PYP) are investigated by using ab initio multiconfigurational second-order perturbation theory at the available structures experimentally determined. Using the dark ground-state crystal structure [Genick, U. K., Soltis, S. M., Kuhn, P., Canestrelli, I. L. & Getzoff, E. D. (1998) Nature (London) 392, 206–209], the ππ* transition to the lowest excited state is related to the typical blue-light absorption observed at 446 nm. The different nature of the second excited state (nπ*) is consistent with the alternative route detected at 395-nm excitation. The results suggest the low-temperature photoproduct PYPHL as the most plausible candidate for the assignment of the cryogenically trapped early intermediate (Genick et al.). We cannot establish, however, a successful correspondence between the theoretical spectrum for the nanosecond time-resolved x-ray structure [Perman, B., Šrajer, V., Ren, Z., Teng, T., Pradervand, C., et al. (1998) Science 279, 1946–1950] and any of the spectroscopic photoproducts known up to date. It is fully confirmed that the colorless light-activated intermediate recorded by millisecond time-resolved crystallography [Genick, U. K., Borgstahl, G. E. O., Ng, K., Ren, Z., Pradervand, C., et al. (1997) Science 275, 1471–1475] is protonated, nicely matching the spectroscopic features of the photoproduct PYPM. The overall contribution demonstrates that a combined analysis of high-level theoretical results and experimental data can be of great value to perform assignments of detected intermediates in a photocycle.
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