Femtosecond-to-millisecond mid-IR spectroscopy of photoactive yellow protein uncovers structural micro-transitions of the chromophore’s protonation mechanism

Author:

van Wilderen Luuk J. G. W.1ORCID,Blankenburg Larissa1ORCID,Bredenbeck Jens1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Biophysics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Abstract

Protein structural dynamics can span many orders of magnitude in time. Photoactive yellow protein’s (PYP) reversible photocycle encompasses picosecond isomerization of the light-absorbing chromophore as well as large scale protein backbone motions occurring on a millisecond timescale. Femtosecond-to-millisecond time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy is employed here to uncover structural details of photocycle intermediates up to chromophore protonation and the first structural changes leading to the formation of the partially unfolded signaling state pB. The data show that a commonly thought stable transient photocycle intermediate is actually formed after a sequence of several smaller structural changes. We provide residue-specific spectroscopic evidence that protonation of the chromophore on a few hundreds of microseconds timescale is delayed with respect to deprotonation of the nearby E46 residue. That implies that the direct proton donor is not E46 but most likely a water molecule. Such details may assist the ongoing photocycle and protein folding simulation efforts on the complex and wide time-spanning photocycle of the model system PYP.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

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