Hydration Effect on Electron Transfer in Cytochrome c Monitored by μSR

The SR measurements of oxidized form of cytochrome c of horse heart were carried out at RIKEN-RAL and at J-PARC MUSE.Cytochrome c is one of the members of respiratory chain in mitochondria.The muon spin time relaxation spectra of the samples wetted with H 2 O and D 2 O, whose water contents were approximately 20 wt.%, were fitted using Risch-Kehr (R-K) function.The longitudinal relaxation parameter () showed an inverse dependence on B ext , in the region from 1000 to 3950 G at room temperature and the region from 200 to 3950 G below 200 K, and it was suggested by the R-K theory that muon spin relaxation due to the one-dimensional electron movement would be dominant below 200 K.The difference in the spectra of the samples wetted with H 2 O and D 2 O was small and it was concluded that muon stopped on cytochrome c and we monitored the behaviors of the electron brought in by  + in cytochrome c through the relaxation process of the  + .