Isolation and purification of the major photosynthetic antenna, fucoxanthin-Chl a/c protein, from cultured discoid germilings of the brown Alga, Cladosiphon okamuranus TOKIDA (Okinawa Mozuku) |
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Authors: | Fujii Ritsuko Kita Mamiko Iinuma Yoshiro Oka Naohiro Takaesu Yuki Taira Tomonori Iha Masahiko Cogdell Richard J Hashimoto Hideki |
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Affiliation: | The OCU Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARINA), 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan. ritsuko@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | A chlorophyll c binding membrane intrinsic light-harvesting complex, the fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c protein (FCP), was isolated from cultured discoid germilings of an edible Japanese brown alga, Cladosiphon (C.) okamuranus TOKIDA (Okinawa Mozuku in Japanese). The discoid germiling is an ideal source of brown algal photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes in terms of its size and easiness of cultivation on a large scale. Ion-exchange chromatography was crucial for the purification of FCP from solubilized thylakoid proteins. The molecular weight of the purified FCP assembly was estimated to be ~56?kDa using blue native-PAGE. Further subunit analyses using 2D-PAGE revealed that the FCP assembled as a trimer consisting of two distinguishable subunits having molecular weights of 18.2 (H) and 17.5 (L)?kDa. Fluorescence and fluorescence-excitation spectra confirmed that the purified FCP assembly was functionally intact. |
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