Kovrigina Elizaveta A, Pattengale Brian, Xia Chuanwu, Galiakhmetov Azamat R, Huang Jier, Kim Jung-Ja P, Kovrigin Evgenii L
Biochemistry Department, Medical College of Wisconsin , Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States.
Chemistry Department, Marquette University , P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, United States.
Biochemistry. 2016 Nov 1;55(43):5973-5976. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00623. Epub 2016 Oct 19.
NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (CYPOR) was shown to undergo large conformational rearrangements in its functional cycle. Using a new Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) approach based on femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (TA), we determined the donor-acceptor distance distribution in the reduced and oxidized states of CYPOR. The unmatched time resolution of TA allowed the quantitative assessment of the donor-acceptor FRET, indicating that CYPOR assumes a closed conformation in both reduced and oxidized states in the absence of the redox partner. The described ultrafast TA measurements of FRET with readily available red-infrared fluorescent labels open new opportunities for structural studies in chromophore-rich proteins and their complexes.