Reconstitution of energy transfer and electron transfer between solubilised pigment-protein complexes from thylakoid membranes. The role of acyl lipids |
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Authors: | Denis J. Murphy |
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Affiliation: | (1) Research Institute for Photosynthesis, University of Sheffield, 26 Taptonville Road, S10 5BR Sheffield, UK;(2) Department of Botany, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE Durham, UK |
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Abstract: | Solubilisation of thylakoid membranes from young leaves of Pisum sativum in the presence of Triton X-100 resulted in an almost complete loss of quenching of light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein (LHCP) fluorescence, as measured at 77°K. There were concomitant changes in the kinetics of light-saturation curves of electron transport from 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol/ascorbate to methyl viologen. These effects were accompenied by a physical dissociation of LHCP polypeptides from photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) polypeptides, as determined by polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis. Detergent-dialysis in the presence of exogenous purified galactolipids, about 80% of which were linoleoyl molecular species, only partially reversed these effects. However, detergent-dialysis using the phospholipids, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine, resulted in the substantial restoration of 77°K fluorescence quenching and the restoration of both emission spectra and electron transport kinetics of both Photosystems I and II that were typical of native membranes.Abbreviations Chl chlorophyll - DCPIP 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol - DGD digalactosyldiacylglycerol - LHCP light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein - MGD monogalactosyldiacylglycerol - PCi phosphatidylcholine — Sigma grade NS - PCii -oleoyl, -palmitoyl phosphalidylcholine - PG phosphatidylglycerol - PSI photosystem I - PSII photosystem II |
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Keywords: | acyl lipid chlorophyll-protein complexes detergent-dialysis energy transfer reconstitution thylakoid |
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