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Frank Klimmek1, Ulrika Ganeteg, Janne A Ihalainen, Henny van Roon, Poul E Jensen, Henrik V Scheller, Jan P Dekker, Stefan Jansson.
Abstract
We have investigated the structure of the higher plant light harvesting complex of photosystem I (LHCI) by analyzing PSI-LHCI particles isolated from a set of Arabidopsis plant lines, each lacking a specific Lhca (Lhca1-4) polypeptide. Functional antenna size measurements support the recent finding that there are four Lhca proteins per PSI in the crystal structure [Ben-Shem, A., Frolow, F., and Nelson, N. (2003) Nature 426, 630-635]. According to HPLC analyses the number of pigment molecules bound within the LHCI is higher than expected from reconstitution studies or analyses of isolated native LHCI. Comparison of the spectra of the particles from the different lines reveals chlorophyll absorption bands peaking at 696, 688, 665, and 655 nm that are not present in isolated PSI or LHCI. These bands presumably originate from "gap" or "linker" pigments that are cooperatively coordinated by the Lhca and/or PSI proteins, which we have tentatively localized in the PSI-LHCI complex.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 15723551 DOI： 10.1021/bi047873g
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochemistry ISSN： 0006-2960 Impact factor: 3.162