Stellacyanin reduction potentials

Mavicyanin (Mj = 18,000) is obtained from green squash (Cucurbito pepo medullosa), where it occurs alongside ascorbate oxidase [64]. It has a peak at 600 nm (e 5000 M cm and reduction potential of 285 mV. Further studies on this and the mung bean and rice bran proteins [65, 66] would be of interest. All the above type 1 Cu proteins have an intense blue color and characteristic narrow hyperfine EPR spectrum for the Cu(II) state. Table 3 summarizes the properties of those most studied. There is some variation in reduction potential and position of the main visible absorbance peak. In the case of azurin, for example, the latter is shifted from 597 to 625 nm. Stellacyanin has no methionine and the identity of the fourth ligand is therefore different [75]. The possibility that this is the 0(amide) of Gln97 has been suggested [63b]. It now seems unlikely that the disulfide is involved in coordination. Stellacyanin has 107 amino acids, with carbohydrate attached at three points giving a 40% contribution to the M, of 20,000 [75]. 

The reduction potential is central for the function of electron-transfer proteins, since it determines the driving force of the reaction. In particular, it must be poised between the reduction potentials of the donor and acceptor species. Therefore, electron-transfer proteins normally have to modulate the reduction potential of the redox-active group. This is very evident for the blue copper proteins, which show reduction potentials ranging from 184 mV for stellacyanin to 1000 mV for the type 1 copper site in domain 2 of ceruloplasmin [1,110,111]. 

Reinhammar BRM (1972) Oxidation-reduction potentials of electron acceptors in laccases and stellacyanin. Biochim Biophys Acta 275 245... 

X 10 s ), the Marcus cross relation (Equation 6.26a) can be used to calculate the reaction rates for the reduction of Cu -stellacyanin by Fe(EDTA) and the oxidation of Cu -stellacyanin by Co(phen)3 +. E°(Cu ) for stellacyanin is 0.18 V vs. NHE, and the reduction potentials and self-exchange rate constants for the inorganic reagents are given in Table 6.3. For relatively small AE° values,/12 is 1 here a convenient form of the Marcus cross relation is log k,2 = 0.5[log kn + log 22 + 16.9AE°2]. Calculations with kn, 22, and AE°2 from experiments give k,2 values that accord quite closely with the measured rate constants. 

Stellacyanins are different from other phytocyanins and cupredoxins by the nature of the axial ligand coordinated to the copper the axial ligand is a conserved glutamine instead of methionine. They also exhibit lower reduction potentials (180-280 mV vs. NHE) than other cupredoxins, and undergo redox reactions with small inorganic complexes or at electrodes at unusually fast rates.The stellacyanin subfamily includes stellacyanins from lacquer tree Rhus Vernicifera and cucumber Cucumis sativus, mavicyanin from green zucchini, and umecyanin from horseradish root. 

Structural studies on electron transfer metalloproteins provide an important origin for discussion of the electron transfer processes themselves.The reduction potentials of a number of cytochromes c, cyt c copper blue proteins plastocyanin, Pc azurin, Az stellacyanin, St and HiPIP, or high potential iron protein, from Chromatium vinosum have been determined using spectro-... 

Another interesting blue protein is stellacyanin (FW = 20 000) from the Japanese lacquer tree Rhus vernicifera, in which, with respect to the other cupredoxins, glutamine replaces the methionine ligand.64 Stellacyanin also bears an overall positive charge (p/=9.9). It, therefore, gives a reversible Cu(II)/Cu(I) response at a glassy carbon electrode in aqueous solution (pH 7.6).61 The formal electrode potential of the Cu(II)/Cu(I) reduction (E01 = + 0.18 V vs. NHE) is the lowest among cupredoxins. 

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