Biliprotein assembly in the hemidiscoidal phycobilisomes of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus Cohn. Characterization of dissociation products with special reference to the peripheral phycoerythrocyanin-phycocyanin complexes |
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Authors: | Michael Nies Werner Wehrmeyer |
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Institution: | (1) Fachbereich Biologie der Philipps-Universität, Lahnberge, D-3550 Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany |
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Abstract: | The dissociation products of isolated phycobilisomes of Mastigocladus laminosus were separated and analyzed by ultracentrifugation and, in part, by isoelectric focusing. With the exception of the allophycocyanin core, the sedimentation constants of peripheral phycocyanin- and phycoerythrocyanin-phycocyanin complexes lay in the range of 6 to 17S. The latter was represented by a 17S aggregate of two hexameric phycocyanins (dodecamer, dipartite unit). A complex with an absorption maximum at 610 nm (phycocyanin) and a shoulder at 580 nm (phycoerythrocyanin), a fluorescence emission maximum at 645 nm and a sedimentation constant of 11 S is described as a heterogeneously composed hexamer of ()3-phycoerythrocyanin-()3-phycocyanin. It was stable under extended dissociation in the cold and under isoelectric focusing. An aggregate of 14 S with an absorption maximum at 576 nm and a shoulder in the fluorescence emission spectrum at 625 nm (phycoerythrocyanin) in addition to the maximum at 645 nm (phycocyanin) is interpreted as a polar phycoerythrocyanin/ phycoerythrocyanin-phycocyanin complex. Combining these complexes with phycocyanin dodecamers creates peripheral rods of the phycobilisome. A proposal of the phycobiliprotein distribution within the phycobilisome of M. laminosus is presented.Abbreviations APC
allophycocyanin
- PC
phycocyanin
- PE
phycoerythrin
- PEC
phycoerythrocyanin |
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Keywords: | Biliprotein complexes Allophycocyanin core Phycoerythrocyanin Phycobilisome Mastigocladus laminosus Cyanobacteria |
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