FLASH PHOTOLYSIS-ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE: A KINETIC STUDY OF ENDOGENOUS LIGHT-INDUCED FREE RADICALS IN REACTION CENTER PREPARATIONS FROM RHODOPSEUDOMONAS SPHEROIDES* |
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| Authors: | James R Bolton ‡ Konstantine Cost |
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| Institution: | Photochemistry Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;Biology Department, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract— Using the technique of flash photolysis-electron spin resonance, we have detected, by means of a kinetic analysis, a rapidly decaying signal in reaction center preparations from the R26 blue-green mutant of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides. This signal, which we designate Signal B3, is essentially the same as that seen previously in iron-free preparations. Signal B3 decays at 20°C with a 1/ e time of ? 3 ms and exhibits an activation energy of 5 ± 1 kcal mol-1 over the temperature range 0–30°C. Extraction with isooctane completely eliminates Signal B3, whereas readdition of exogenous ubiquinone-30 completely restores the signal. o -Phenanthroline has no effect on Signal B3. We discuss these results in terms of a model in which the primary acceptor is an iron-ubiquinone complex with excess ubiquinone serving as a secondary electron acceptor pool. |
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