Structure of a large photosystem II supercomplex from Acaryochloris marina |
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| Authors: | Chen Min Bibby Thomas S Nield Jon Larkum Anthony W D Barber James |
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| Affiliation: | School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. |
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| Abstract: | Acaryochloris marina is a prochlorophyte-like cyanobacterium containing both phycobilins and chlorophyll d as light harvesting pigments. We show that the chlorophyll d light harvesting system, composed of Pcb proteins, functionally associates with the photosystem II (PSII) reaction center (RC) core to form a giant supercomplex. This supercomplex has a molecular mass of about 2300 kDa and dimensions of 385 A x 240 A. It is composed of two PSII-RC core dimers arranged end-to-end, flanked by eight symmetrically related Pcb proteins on each side. Thus each PSII-RC monomer has four Pcb subunits acting as a light harvesting system which increases the absorption cross section of the PSII-RC core by almost 200%. |
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| Keywords: | DM, β-dodecyl maltoside PSI and PSII, photosystem I and II RC, reaction center of photosystem II Chl, chlorophyll EM, electron microscopy |
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