Properties of thylakoids and thylakoid particles derived from structurally different chloroplasts |
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Authors: | Peter H Homann Yuan-Yuan Liu |
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Institution: | Department of Biological Science and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Structurally and functionally different tobacco chloroplasts were subjected to digitonin treatment and subsequent fractional centrifugation. The light-harvesting complex was found to be enriched in the most dense fraction regardless of the presence of grana in the original preparation. It is suggested that isolated thylakoid membranes and fragments thereof which contain sufficient light-harvesting protein may, under appropriate ionic conditions, form aggregates even when they originate from unstacked thylakoid systems. Comparative studies of fluorescence properties and polypeptide composition of the thylakoids suggest that the light-harvesting protein does not contribute significantly to the fluorescence spectrum of isolated chloroplasts as long as this protein is intimately associated with the Photosystem II (PS II) pigment-protein complex responsible for the 685 nm emission. While the PS II-deficient mutant chloroplasts of the variegated tobacco variety NC 95 lacked both the 685 nm fluorescence component and two or three PS II proteins, one of these proteins was found to be very prominent in our chlorophyll b-deficient mutant thylakoids which also displayed an intense 685 nm fluorescence peak. This correlation supports the contention that a 45 kdalton polypeptide is an apoprotein of pigments associated with the PS II reaction center. |
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Keywords: | Chlorophyll fluorescence Thylakoid Photosystem II Light-harvesting complex (Tobacco chloroplast) Chl chlorophyll fluorescence peak used in conjunction with number indicating wavelength JWB tobacco variety John Williams Broadleaf LHCP NC yellow PS photosystem SDS sodium dodecyl sulfate Tricine DCIP 2 6-dichlorophenolindophenol |
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