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标题：Synthesis and Properties of Clostridium acidi-urici [Leu2]-Ferredoxin: A Function of the Peptide Chain and Evidence Against the Direct Role of the Aromatic Residues in Electron Transfer
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作者：Eglis T. Lode ; Cheryl L. Murray ; William V. Sweeney 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1974
卷号：71
期号：4
页码：1361-1365
DOI：10.1073/pnas.71.4.1361
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Tyrosyl or other aromatic residues generally occur in two conserved positions in the peptide chain of clostridial-type ferredoxins and have been implicated in the electron transfer function of these iron-sulfur proteins. We have prepared and determined some of the properties of a derivative of Clostridium acidi-urici ferredoxin, [Leu2]-ferredoxin, in which a leucyl residue has been substituted for the tyrosyl residue in position 2 from the amino terminus. [Leu2]-ferredoxin is fully active as an electron carrier in two biological assays, the phosphoroclastic enzyme system and the ferredoxin-dependent reduction of cytochrome c in the presence of ferredoxin-TPN reductase and TPNH. Quantitative electron paramagnetic resonance experiments indicate that [Leu2]-ferredoxin accepts nearly two electrons upon enzymatic reduction by pyruvate-ferredoxin oxidoreductase and an excess of pyruvate. If electron transfer to an iron-sulfur cluster is the rate-limiting step in the assays used, and if the rate of electron transfer through Tyr30 is not much faster than through Tyr2, these results indicate that the primary pathway of electron transfer in clostridial-type ferredoxins is not via Tyr or other aromatic amino-acid residues. The syntheses of other ferredoxin derivatives with amino-acid substitutions or deletions in positions 1 and 2 indicate that a large bulky residue, but not necessarily an aromatic residue, is needed in position 2 for the stability of this ferredoxin. The residue in position 2, therefore, appears to act as a hydrophobic shield for an iron-sulfur cluster.
关键词：iron-sulfur protein ; modified ferredoxins