Abstract
The reactions of horse heart cytochrome c with Fe(ethylenediaminetetraacetate)2-, Co(1,10-phenanthroline)3(3+), Ru(NH3)6(2+), and Fe(CN)6(3-) have been analyzed within the formalism of the Marcus theory of outer-sphere electron transfer, including compensation for electrostatic interactions. Calculated protein self-exchange rate constants based on crossreactions are found to vary over three orders of magnitude, decreasing according to Fe(CN)6(3-) greater than Ru(NH3)6(2+) greater than Fe(EDTA)2-. The reactivity order suggests that the mechanism of electron transfer involves attack by the small molecule reagents near the most nearly exposed region of the heme; this attack is affected by electrostatic interactions with the positively charged protein, by hydrophobic interactions that permit reagent penetration of the protein surface, and by the availability of pi symmetry ligand (or extended metal) orbitals that can overlap with the pi redox orbitals of the heme group.
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