Phenothiazines and phenoxazines: as electron transfer mediators for ferritin iron release

Koochana, Prashanth Kumar and Mohanty, Abhinav and Subhadarshanee, Biswamaitree and Satpati, Suresh and Naskar, Rajat and Dixit, Anshuman and Behera, Rabindra K. (2019) Phenothiazines and phenoxazines: as electron transfer mediators for ferritin iron release. In: DALTON TRANSACTIONS, 48 (10). pp. 3314-3326.

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Abstract

Intracellular ferritin stores iron as ferrihydrite and releases it for various cellular metabolic activities. The reductive approach, one of the possible mechanisms of iron mobilization from ferritin nanocages, requires electron transfer (ET) from reducing agent(s) to the protein encapsulated iron. In vitro, the rate of ET from the physiological reducing agent, NADH, to mineralized ferritin is very slow resulting in a smaller amount of iron release. Therefore, medically relevant phenothiazine (TH/MB/MG/TDB) and phenoxazine (BCB/CRV/NB) dyes were used as ET mediators to facilitate the electron relay and to evaluate their iron releasing ability from ferritin. These dyes have earlier been exploited as ET mediators during electrocatalysis and in the treatment of methemoglobinemia. With the exception of MG, the midpoint potentials (E-1/2) and NADH oxidizing abilities of these dyes dictated by their structure and the reaction conditions along with the dye-ferritin interaction govern the kinetics of reductive iron mobilization. A greater amount of iron release was observed in the case of TH, BCB and CRV. In comparison to neutral pH, acidic pH altered E-1/2 and protein conformation leading to enhanced iron mobilization, whereas dissolved O-2 and the photosensitizing effect of dyes were found to have a negligible impact. In analogy to in vitro, the acidic environment of the lysosome may bring about similar changes in the reducing agents/dye mediators/ferritin to facilitate the iron release process in vivo. Following Marcus theory, our current observations suggest that the dyes with E-1/2 values well separated from those of the reducing agents and ferritin's mineral core can be exploited to facilitate iron release during iron overload conditions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Publisher:	ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Biochemistry
Date Deposited:	17 May 2019 11:33
Last Modified:	17 May 2019 11:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/62402

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