Photocontrol of the redox state of ruthenium–tris(bipyridine)-appended cytochrome b562

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Itaru Hamachi, Shigeaki Tanaka, Shinya Tsukiji, Seiji Shinkai, Masafumi Shimizu and Teruyuki Nagamune


Abstract

Ruthenium–tris(bipyridine)-appended heme is successfully reconstituted with apo-cytochrome b562 (Cyt-b562); the redox state of the active site in the resultant semisynthetic Cyt-b562 can be switched by visible light irradiation.


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