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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-2-12
pubmed:abstractText
Laser flash photolysis has been used to determine the second-order rate constants for the reduction of horse heart cytochrome c by the semiquinone and fully reduced forms of various flavin analogs. We find that substitution in the dimethylbenzene ring of the flavin causes appreciable changes in the rate constants, whereas substitutions at the N-10 position do not. Placing a charged phosphate group in the N-10 ribityl side chain leads to only small ionic strength effects on the rate constants, whereas a charged group attached to the dimethylbenzene ring produces a large ionic strength effect. These results can be accounted for by assuming that a productive collision between flavin and cytochrome involves an orientation that positions the aromatic ring--N-5 region of the flavin toward the heme crevice and the N-10--pyrimidine ring region away from it. Our observations have implications for mechanistic understanding of biological electron transfer reactions and are discussed in this context.
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pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
78
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6724-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
Laser flash photolysis studies of electron transfer between semiquinone and fully reduced free flavins and horse heart cytochrome c.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.