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Es wird versucht, die Treffertheorie auf die indirekte Strahlenwirkung auszudehnen. Dazu wird angenommen, daß durch die Strahlung „Energieträger“ erzeugt werden, die durch Diffusion zu den „empfindlichen Bereichen“ gelangen und diese verändern können.
Der Berechnung des Wirkvolumens für derartige „indirekte Treffer“ folgt eine reaktionskinetische Betrachtung der indirekten Wirkung.
Durch die Einschaltung physikalisch-chemischer Prozesse zwischen Strahlenabsorption und „Treffer“ erscheint eine Berücksichtigung der physikalischen und chemischen Gegebenheiten im bestrahlten Objekt viel eher möglich als in der „klassischen“ Theorie der „direkten Trefferwirkung“.
Es wurde die Einwirkung monochromatischer ultravioletter Strahlen der Wellenlänge 254 mμ, 281 mμ und 297 mμ auf kernlose Zellteile von Acetabularia untersucht. Dazu wurden in Abhängigkeit von der Strahlendosis die mittlere Lebensdauer und das Formbildungs-Vermögen der kernlosen Teile bestimmt. Der 254-mμ-Strahlung kam dabei stets die größte biologische Wirksamkeit zu, während die 297-mμ-Strahlung im untersuchten Dosisbereich fast ohne Wirkung blieb. Die gefundene Wellenlängen-Abhängigkeit weist darauf hin, daß der UV-Absorption durch die Purine und Pyrimidine für den Wirkungsmechanismus der beobachteten UV-Schädigungen kernloser Zellteile besondere Bedeutung zukommen muß.
Complex I couples the free energy released from quinone (Q) reduction to pump protons across the biological membrane in the respiratory chains of mitochondria and many bacteria. The Q reduction site is separated by a large distance from the proton-pumping membrane domain. To address the molecular mechanism of this long-range proton-electron coupling, we perform here full atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, free energy calculations, and continuum electrostatics calculations on complex I from Thermus thermophilus. We show that the dynamics of Q is redox-state-dependent, and that quinol, QH2, moves out of its reduction site and into a site in the Q tunnel that is occupied by a Q analog in a crystal structure of Yarrowia lipolytica. We also identify a second Q-binding site near the opening of the Q tunnel in the membrane domain, where the Q headgroup forms strong interactions with a cluster of aromatic and charged residues, while the Q tail resides in the lipid membrane. We estimate the effective diffusion coefficient of Q in the tunnel, and in turn the characteristic time for Q to reach the active site and for QH2 to escape to the membrane. Our simulations show that Q moves along the Q tunnel in a redox-state-dependent manner, with distinct binding sites formed by conserved residue clusters. The motion of Q to these binding sites is proposed to be coupled to the proton-pumping machinery in complex I.
As cryo-EM approaches the physical resolution limits imposed by electron optics and radiation damage, it becomes increasingly urgent to address the issues that impede high-resolution structure determination of biological specimens. One of the persistent problems has been beam-induced movement, which occurs when the specimen is irradiated with high-energy electrons. Beam-induced movement results in image blurring and loss of high-resolution information. It is particularly severe for biological samples in unsupported thin films of vitreous water. By controlled devitrification of conventionally plunge-frozen samples, the suspended film of vitrified water was converted into cubic ice, a polycrystalline, mechanically stable solid. It is shown that compared with vitrified samples, devitrification reduces beam-induced movement in the first 5 e Å−2 of an exposure by a factor of ∼4, substantially enhancing the contribution of the initial, minimally damaged frames to a structure. A 3D apoferritin map reconstructed from the first frames of 20 000 particle images of devitrified samples resolved undamaged side chains. Devitrification of frozen-hydrated specimens helps to overcome beam-induced specimen motion in single-particle cryo-EM, as a further step towards realizing the full potential of cryo-EM for high-resolution structure determination.