Photoactive Yellow Protein Chromophore Photoisomerizes around a Single Bond if the Double Bond Is Locked
Mustalahti, S., Morozov, D., Luk, H. L., Pallerla, R. R., Myllyperkiö, P., Pettersson, M., Pihko, P. M., & Groenhof, G. (2020). Photoactive Yellow Protein Chromophore Photoisomerizes around a Single Bond if the Double Bond Is Locked. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(6), 2177-2181. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00060
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Photoactivation in the Photoactive Yellow Protein, a bacterial blue light photoreceptor, proceeds via photo-isomerization of the double C=C bond in the covalently attached chromophore. Quantum chemistry calculations, however, have suggested that in addition to double bond photo-isomerization, the isolated chromophore and many of its analogues, can isomerize around a single C-C bond as well. Whereas double bond photo-isomerization has been observed with x-ray crystallography, experimental evidence for single bond photo-isomerization is currently lacking. Therefore, we have synthesized a chromophore analogue, in which the formal double bond is covalently locked in a cyclopentenone ring and carried out transient absorption spectroscopy experiments in combination with non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations to reveal that the locked chromophore isomerizes around the single bond upon photo-activation. Our work thus provides experimental evidence for single bond photo-isomerization in a photoactive yellow protein chromophore analogue and suggests that photo-isomerization is not restricted to the double bonds in conjugated systems. This insight may be useful for designing light-driven molecular switches or motors.
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This work has been done as part of the BioExcel CoE (www.bioexcel.eu), a project funded by the European Union contracts H2020-INFRAEDI-02-2018-823830, H2020-EINFRA-2015-1-675728. In addition, we received funding from the Academy of Finland (Grants 297874, 290677 and 304455).License
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