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Reduction potential calculations of the Fe-S clusters in Thermus thermophilus respiratory complex I.
Journal of Computational Chemistry 2019 January 30
Respiratory complex I facilitates electron transfer from NADH to quinone over ~95 Å through a chain of seven iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters in the respiratory chain. In this study, the reduction potentials of the Fe-S clusters in Thermus thermophilus complex I are calculated using a Density Functional Theory + Poisson-Boltzmann method. Our results indicate that the reduction potentials are influenced by a variety of factors including the clusters being deeply buried in the complex and the protonation state of buried ionizable residues. In addition, as several of the ionizable side chains have predicted pKa values near pH 7, relatively small structural fluctuations could lead to significant (0.2 V) shifts in the reduction potential of several of the Fe-S clusters, suggesting a dynamic mechanism for electron transfer. Moreover, the method used here is a useful computational tool to study other questions about complex I. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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