Association of fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding polypeptides with photosystems and phosphorylation in the centric diatom Cyclotella cryptica |
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Authors: | Brakemann Tanja Schlörmann Wiebke Marquardt Jürgen Nolte Matthias Rhiel Erhard |
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Institution: | aGeomikrobiologie, ICBM, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, POB. 2503, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany bElektronenmikroskopisches Zentrum, Klinikum der FSU Jena, Ziegelmühlenweg 1, 07741 Jena, Germany |
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Abstract: | Solubilization of thylakoid membranes of Cyclotella cryptica with dodecyl-beta maltoside followed by sucrose density gradient centrifugation or deriphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis resulted in the isolation of pigment protein complexes. These complexes were characterized by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western immunoblotting using antisera against fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins and the reaction center protein D2 of photosystem II. Sucrose density gradient centrifugation yielded four bands. Band 1 consisted of free pigments with minor amounts of fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins. Bands 2, 3, and 4 represented a major fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding protein fraction, photosystem II, and photosystem I, respectively. Deriphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis gave rise to five bands, representing photosystem I, photosystem II, two fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding protein complexes, and a band mostly consisting of free pigments. In the Western immunoblotting experiments, the specific association of two fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins, Fcp2 and Fcp4, to the photosystems could be demonstrated. In vivo experiments using antibodies against phosphothreonine residues and in vitro studies using gamma-32P]ATP showed that fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c binding-proteins of 22 kDa became phosphorylated. |
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Keywords: | Bacillariophyceae Cyclotella light-harvesting complexes phosphorylation photosynthesis photosystems |
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