Semiquinone in molecularly imprinted hybrid amino acid-SiO2 biomimetic materials. An experimental and theoretical study
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Christoforidis, K. C.
Louloudi, M.
Rutherford, A. W.
Deligiannakis, Y.
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American Chemical Society
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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Two novel biomimetic materials have been designed and synthesized by using the sol-gel method combined with the imprinting technique. One material, [SiO2-histidine], bears histidines covalently attached in the pores of silica matrix, whereas the second material, [SiO2-tryptophan], bears tryptophans grafted in the pores of silica matrix. The pores have been formed by imprinted para-benzoquinone (pBQ) molecules which were used as templates and subsequently removed. After formation of the porous matrix, the quinones were reinserted in the pores forming the [SiO2-pBQ-histidine] biomimetic material M1 and [SiO2-pBQ-tryptophan] material M2, respectively. In M1 and M2, the quinones were stabilized via spatial confinement and weak interactions with the anchored aminoacids. Serniquinone (pBQ(center dot-)) radicals were then easily formed in the pores of MI and M2 materials. The pBQ(center dot) radicals showed remarkable stability remaining practically unaltered after several days. ESEEM spectroscopy revealed that in M1, spin delocalization from the pBQ(center dot-) radical onto the imidazoles of the anchored histidine occur. Density functional theory calculations show that the spin transfer from pBQ(center dot-) onto imidazole occurs via H bonds, in a way similar to that originally observed between semiquinones and protein imidazoles Q(A)-His219-D1 and Q(A)-His219 M in photosystem II and the bacterial reaction centers, respectively. In the M2 material, ESEEM spectroscopy and DFT calculations show that pBQ(center dot-) is pi-stacked with the indole of the anchored tryptophan. This interaction is similar to the pi-stacking in [indole from tryptophan W698-A(1) phyllosemiquinone] pair in photosystent I. Thus, M1 and M2 are the first example of synthetic material successfully mimicking an intriguing phenomenon, previously observed exclusively in the photosynthetic reaction centers.
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electron-spin-echo, photosynthetic reaction centers, protein-cofactor interactions, polarizable continuum model, primary acceptor quinone, photosystem-i, sol-gel, hyperfine couplings, resonance parameters, envelope modulation
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<Go to ISI>://000258443000038
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/jp800430n
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/jp800430n
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Σχολή Θετικών Επιστημών. Τμήμα Χημείας